Portable Apps: Anyone else ever play with these?

[f700es]

Portable Apps

You install programs on your USB drive, iPod or portable hard drive and run from there. Leaves nothing on the host computer. Pretty neat stuff.

[CADTutor]

This is a really great idea, especially if you're a FireFox junkie.

[iain9876]

neat idea, but i guess you would have to move all your apps to one usb dongle, or have several... could be a messy experience.

Then again what if you lost your usb drive or worse stood on it..that would be a major hassle....you would soon revert back to the old installed apps as most people are inherantly lazy!

[f700es]

neat idea, but i guess you would have to move all your apps to one usb dongle, or have several... could be a messy experience.

Then again what if you lost your usb drive or worse stood on it..that would be a major hassle....you would soon revert back to the old installed apps as most people are inherantly lazy!

Yeah, not a perfect solution for a problem that's not really there...

but it is nice to have portable FireFox on my USB drive and have my favorite sites with me no matter where I go.

[tteneke]

hi,
I am a bit late to join this discussion but I wonder that;
Is there any portable cad software (2D) available?

[f700es]

I don't think so. Most CAD software installs files into the window's system folders and therefore cannot be portable. I'll look and see if there are any but I don't think so

[James]

you can get a portable autocad version, but tbh portable software is a frigging nightmare (well is/was with u3)

what happened to me was, it installed the flashdrive on the host pc as a hard drive and it caused me no end of grief with drive letters (i actually lost the use of my dvd drive because of it)

not sure how the above link works though as this was using smart u3

[CADTutor]

No need for a portable CAD, try the new Project Draw online application. Recently released into the wild by Autodesk Labs.

[tteneke]

Thanks. .

[f700es]

you can get a portable autocad version, but tbh portable software is a frigging nightmare (well is/was with u3)

what happened to me was, it installed the flashdrive on the host pc as a hard drive and it caused me no end of grief with drive letters (i actually lost the use of my dvd drive because of it)

not sure how the above link works though as this was using smart u3

Not doubting you James but I would have to see it to believe it. Acad writes back to too many different directories for this to be possible. Any links on this?
Thanks