Posted: 6/21/2011 7:15:17 AM EDT
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Hey Guys. Looks like I will be shooting (photographing) overseas starting later this year. I have several thousand dollars worth of photo processing software that I'd like to take with me in case of a laptop fail, etc... Of course, space is at a premium. Can I copy it all to an external hard drive? Will it load from there?
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Sure. Copy each from its original media to its own folder on the storage media. You can then install from the new storage media. Give it a go and then do a test install.
eta: You need to copy from the original installation media, not from the folders on the laptop. When progs are installed, files get copied all over the place on the laptop and you won;t be able to find them all. You must copy the installation media to the external storage. For example: Create a folder on the external media named "Office CD". Put the Office CD in the cd drive, open file manager on the laptop, select all folders on the cd and drag them to the 'Office CD' folder. It should copy the files and folders from the cd to the 'Office CD' folder. |
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Sure. Copy each from its original media to its own folder on the storage media. You can then install from the new storage media. Give it a go and then do a test install. eta: You need to copy from the original installation media, not from the folders on the laptop. When progs are installed, files get copied all over the place on the laptop and you won;t be able to find them all. You must copy the installation media to the external storage. That wont work if its copy protected. There are ways to copy your cd's to disk images, then mount the images with virtual cd rom software, but that whole process is kind of above the newbie level. |
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Sure. Copy each from its original media to its own folder on the storage media. You can then install from the new storage media. Give it a go and then do a test install. eta: You need to copy from the original installation media, not from the folders on the laptop. When progs are installed, files get copied all over the place on the laptop and you won;t be able to find them all. You must copy the installation media to the external storage. That wont work if its copy protected. There are ways to copy your cd's to disk images, then mount the images with virtual cd rom software, but that whole process is kind of above the newbie level. Personally, have never met a copy-protected software cd. |
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Quoted: Hey Guys. Looks like I will be shooting (photographing) overseas starting later this year. I have several thousand dollars worth of photo processing software that I'd like to take with me in case of a laptop fail, etc... Of course, space is at a premium. Can I copy it all to an external hard drive? Will it load from there? Other suggestions? If your laptop fails, how are you going to install / run your software? Is there another system you will have access to? |
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Hey Guys. Looks like I will be shooting (photographing) overseas starting later this year. I have several thousand dollars worth of photo processing software that I'd like to take with me in case of a laptop fail, etc... Of course, space is at a premium. Can I copy it all to an external hard drive? Will it load from there? Other suggestions? If your laptop fails, how are you going to install / run your software? Is there another system you will have access to? Yes. I have two Macbook Pros. I use Time Machine, but I just had one of the external drives I use for this fail...just thinking about redundancy for everything here. |
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Something you can try:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/making_dvd_copies.html Use the Leopard instructions to create a CD or DVD master. Once done, double click the image and try to open it. If it works, it should mount like a CD or DVD would and allow you to install. Keep the disk images on a hard drive, thumb drive, etc and use if needed. Not sure if it will work with the particular disks you have, so do a test install before relying on them. Edit: Don't forget to take your product keys, etc with you also. |