Barbara, I have played around with installing programs on my thumb drive. Genviewer works great. I installed several other programs which ported fairly easily to Linux. RootsMagic installed easily and generally runs OK although opening various windows is slower. I think Legacy would be a stretch because of its installed size. Legacy also uses Windows embedded dlls and, of course, MS Access. I do plan to play around to see if I can make it work but my instinct says that it even if it runs it might not be acceptable to most of us.
Jim On 1/22/06, Barbara Jobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we asked this question when the cruise was taking place and never > got back to it. I would love to have the same thing. Right now I always back > up to my thumb drive then plug it into my laptop and open the database > there. I also have a Seagate 40GB portable hard drive. I want to put Legacy > on it then just move the Seagate back and forth between my laptop and > Desktop. I have Windows XP on both. Does anyone think there would be a > problem with this? > Barbara > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Wilkinson > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy on a Thumb Drive > > Just read Legacy News about 23 things to do with a thumb drive. Wouldn't > it be great if there were a 24th? I've thought for a while now that > Legacy would be a perfect candidate to be made portable. > > I don't know what it takes, but I've seen other applications made > portable so that they can be placed on a thumb drive and be used where > ever the user can find a PC that will accept it. > > Isn't there someone out there clever enough to do this? > > David > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006 > > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
