I put beersmith on my flash drive so I can use it at my buddies house when I'm down there brewing since I don't have a laptop yet. Is there any way I can use his laptop computer and my beersmith down at his place? Thanks
BeerSmith said:Hi,
If you want both the program and your documents on the same drive (shared, flash or whatever) I strongly recommend putting them in two different directories - install the program to one (such as F:\BeerSmith-Program) and then use the Change Directory command on the File menu to change your Documents to another directory (such as F:\BeerSmith-Docs).
That way if you ever do updates to the program it won't risk overwriting your data - as they belong in separate directories.
Brad
BeerSmith said:Hi,
Try installing BeerSmith to the normal hard drive on both computers. Then use the "Change Documents Directory" on the File menu to point your documents directory to a new directory (you already created) on your flash drive.
On the second computer do the same thing - install it normally then point your documents directory to the flash drive.
Then enter your registration keys (likely needed on both computers - enter the same one) and finally after all is working then import your recipes/data.
Don't import your recipes until you have this working - as changing directories on the second computer will just overwrite everything on the flash drive documents directory.
If you do this all correctly you should be able to move the flash drive back and forth without breaking anything as long as you have the flash drive inserted before running BeerSmith.
Brad