Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-28 Thread Paul Looney
On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: Make sure that you are using a quality USB stick as well. Some cheap and nasty ones can be awfully slow. Terry... A good USB 3 flash drive will help eliminate some of the speed penalty with flash vs a hard drive.

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-28 Thread Charles Szasz
Thanks everybody for your advice on apps running on a flash drive! Sent from my iPad ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Szasz
I have an app that was designed to run on the desktop on school computers, which are mostly windows based. However, the app may have to run on flash drive because of administrator's issues. I know I will have to disable preferences that I had for the desktop version. I have already tried my

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-27 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Could you copy your app/stack to the hard disk cache ot temp folder and run your app/stack from this folder of the user computer? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Apps-on-Flash-Drive-Advice-tp4682592p4682593.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Szasz
Al I have not tried or even thought of that. Is there a script that you can use for windows that would automatically do that for the user when he double-clicks on the exe file on the flash drive? Any scripts you can suggest would be greatly appreciated! Sent from my iPad

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-27 Thread Bill Vlahos
Charles, InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a hard disk. There are a lot of advantages in doing so. The only limitation I see running from a USB drive is how long it takes to load the data file or save the data file. The larger the data file the longer it

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

2014-08-27 Thread Terry Judd
Make sure that you are using a quality USB stick as well. Some cheap and nasty ones can be awfully slow. Terry... On 28/08/2014 3:25 pm, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: Charles, InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a hard disk. There are a lot of advantages