On 10 Mar 2006 at 15:21, Phil Daley wrote: > At 3/10/2006 03:13 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >I doubt that there's any way to do this, as Finale uses the Registry > >to store settings. If it used only INI files and you could map your > >thumb drive to use the same drive letter on all the machines you > were >using, then it might be doable. Possibly. > >But it doesn't. > > It is simple enough to create reg files and copy them to a different > machine, but, I think people have said that it uses hardware checking, > which would fail on a different machine.
Well, yes, you could then execute those *.REG files on the host computer, which would load those settings into the registry. But you'd have to do that every time you change your settings on your base machine (re-exporting the Finale registry key to the thumb drive, then re-importing it on each machine you've already imported it on). This is not really a usable substitute for a truly portable configuration. I truly think that it's unlikely that any non-Open Source apps will ever make this kind of portability easy. To Mac users: didn't the Mac used to have simple installations where the app was just copied into a directory and run from there, with no outside dependencies? Has this changed with OS X? If so, that's unfortunate, as the simple way is just *so* much easier to deal with, and would make portability a piece of cake. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
