Apps on Flash Drive Advice

[Bill Vlahos]

Charles,

InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a hard disk. There are a lot of advantages in doing so. The only limitation I see running from a USB drive is how long it takes to load the data file or save the data file. The larger the data file the longer it takes because USB access is much slower than to a hard drive.

LiveCode apps typically load completely into memory and then run. It might take a bit longer to load from a USB drive than hard disk but once loaded should run the same unless data or preferences are updated during program run.

How and when does your app read or write to disk? Reduce or eliminate any reading or writing to disk to reduce the performance penalty.

Bill Vlahos
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On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Charles Szasz <cszasz at me.com> wrote:

> I have an app that was designed to run on the desktop on school computers, which are mostly windows based. However, the app may have to run on flash drive because of administrator's issues.  
> 
> I know I will have to disable preferences that I had for the desktop version. I have already tried my app on a flash drive with a school computer.  It runs but seems a bit slow.   Any advice on how to maximize the performance of an app running on a flash drive?  
> 
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