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From: alexander koryagin <koryagin@erec.ru>

Hi, Paul Quinn!
I read your message from 04.05.2014 21:24

  ak>> I use Thunderbird mail program, and I set up its folders at my
  ak>> movable USB driver. So, I can read/write as from my home computer
  ak>> as well as from my office computer, and my messages are stored in
  ak>> one place.

  PQ> So do I, on two PCs: one on my 'office' desktop under the house and
  PQ> another on a netbook in my daughter's room (recall we spoke about
  PQ> the unclean table). Even though the netbook has two boot options
  PQ> already for different Linux versions, I use a Linux USB boot stick
  PQ> with saved configurations on it for six different PCs. I'm toying
  PQ> with the idea of creating the user 'home' directory on a separate
  PQ> partition on the USB, so that things like Thunderbird's directory
  PQ> structure could be shared by the various boot configurations. This
  PQ> is something easily done in a Linux environment.

Actually is is easy to do in Windows, too. The main thing you should 
care of is that your disk (which you created from that "home" partition) 
shall be mounted in constant position (for instance "E" for all windows 
computers. In windows you can change disk letters as you wish.

  PQ> For Windows, you might like to checkout 'Portable Apps' (via your
  PQ> favourite search engine). They have the same notion, where you can
  PQ> take your favourite Windows environment to any PC.  I think it's
  PQ> *free* and worth checking.

I used some "portable" applications, and I didn't have good experience. 
The main feature of a portable program is that such an application 
creates in windows register a temporary keys, and it removes them after 
termination. But it means that some  settings you have done during your 
work will be lost after the program exit. It is annoying.

There is not a problem to install a not portable program twice and set 
up one common directory on flash drive. Such a problem (which I had 
mention above, telling of Thunderbird and server name) is very rare.

  ak>> You know, it is May holidays in Russia now.
  PQ> It's nice to know but I don't know what to do with the information.
  PQ> [giggle]

Well, it explained why I didn't connect to your server from my office 
computer, which was tuned well. 

Bye, Paul!
Alexander Koryagin
fido7.english-tutor 2014
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