Hi Tim,

Just be sure to update any changes on the thumb drive back to your
hard drive and vice versa. I had G8 on a thumb drive, and was making
frequent changes to guide.dat on both copies. I messed up by not
keeping them synched.

Larry

At 07:09 PM 2/19/2009, you wrote:

>Thanks Jim. I'll try it.
>
>...Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
><mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com>guide-user@yahoogroups.com
>[mailto:guide-user@yahoogroups.com]On
>Behalf Of JS & EJ Gifford
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 5:52 PM
>To: <mailto:guide-user%40yahoogroups.com>guide-user@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [guide-user] Guide from a thumb drive?
>
>Hi Tim,
>
>I have Guide on a thumb drive for travelling, it runs with no
>issues although it can be a fraction slower, nothing compared with the
>convenience it gives. The one problem I have found is that often hotel and
>other computers are configured to not recognize external drives. If your
>work computer will allow the drive to function then Guide will stay self
>contained and not affect it. I use a 4 gig drive which leaves heaps of room
>for other info, I think it fits on a 2 gig but just check the size of your
>desktop Guide folder. To install it just copy this folder across to the
>thumb drive rather than installing from disk and downloading updates. Comet
>updates etc can be made direct as needed.
>
>Regards, Jim Gifford.

Laren Dart
http://ldart.got.net


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