External Hardrive Experiment Question

[Kirby]

I recently installed my BW7 on an external hardrive and it works great. But, when I move the hardrive which works off usb to another PC I get a "books.bnb" error. Is this something I can correct with the repair option when I move it to a different pc without messing up my data? Just curious what anyone's thoughts would be. Thanks.

[MWMiles]

Hi Kirby,

If BibleWorks writes anything to the Windows Registry then it's not going to run as a portable application. Portable applications don't use the registry to save program data. I doubt that BibleWorks runs this way, although it would be VERY nice if it did. It does have it's own .INI files, but I doubt that the entire package runs without writing to the registry.

Hope this helps...

Mike

[Kirby]

Mike,

Thanks for the info; I was able to do this with a flash drive; another words I installed BW7 (limited database) on a flash drive and could take it to any PC. BW6 was really good about this. Anyway, you have given me food for thought and I'll let you know if I come up with something.

In Christ,
Kirby.