Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-18 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/18/2017 3:31 AM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote: As I understand those links, portableapps.com works on these other operating systems by using Wine, a virtual windows emulator. So, you'd install a windows emulator on your linux machine (125mb) in order to run gnucash as a portable app on

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-17 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
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Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-17 Thread Adrien Monteleone
y that John only wants to load his data from the >>>>> flash drive, then. >>>>> >>>>> John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it >>>>> had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you >>>&g

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-17 Thread Christoph R
and >>>mounted before you start GC, and you should be fine. >>> >>>David >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>*From:* David Carlson <david.carlso

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
I am considering a larger drive. It might be the smarter way to go. On 07/14/2017 03:55 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:10:10 -0500 John Wright wrote: I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive and installing gnucash on

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw back to the dark ages. John On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote: Perhaps this

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-15 Thread John Wright
Ok, Did not know that, thanks. On 07/14/2017 01:58 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:33 -0500 David Carlson wrote: Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:10:10 -0500 John Wright wrote: > > > I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive > and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps > as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:33 -0500 David Carlson wrote: > > > Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing > Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent storage. > That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was

Re: Flash Drive

2017-07-14 Thread David via gnucash-user
gnucash.org>, John Wright <minimudd...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Flash Drive Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent storage. That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was somewhat clumsy. T