James Knott wrote: > John Meyer wrote: >> dougM wrote: >> >>> James Knott wrote: >>> >>>> dougM wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I have a dual-boot system too, Linux and XP, with OpenOffice installed >>>>> in each. What I do is transfer files to a USB flash drive -- you can >>>>> get those for very little on eBay. Then each OS can read it, treating >>>>> the flash drive as an external drive, and you can drag and drop a >>>>> document wherever you want it within each. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Why not just use the FAT32 partition? It's easy to do and you won't >>>> forget to copy to the flash. >>>> >>>> >>> I don't know how to do that, James. Can you refer me to some >>> instructions? Thanks. >>> >>> -- Doug M. >>> >>> >> >> In other words, what I think he is saying is just use the Windows >> partition to save your documents and skip the flash drive. That will >> work if the XP partition is formatted as FAT32. If it's NTFS, on the >> other hand, the support is still a little bit hit and miss. >> Then again, in addition to either a flash drive or using the other >> partition, you could always use a site like http://www.4shared.com or >> http://www.xdrive.com and save the files there. >> > > What I had recommended was to create a separate FAT32 partition, to > which the "My Documents" folder can be moved. I have done that on my > notebook. > >
My bad. That's not a bad idea either. However you do it, I'd think you'd want a consistent location for your documents whatever OS you are running at the time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
