Working off an external hardrive

Classic Servoy
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Hi, I tend to work off two different computers: an iMac running 10.3 when in the office, and an iBook running 10.3 when at home.

As a results I typically store all my document files on an external hardrive that I carry back and forth.

What’s the best way for me to install Servoy to deal with this? What folders and files should remain in the Applications folder of each computer and which files can be stored on the hardrive?

Thanks,

Michael Reade

(PS: don’t worry about backups, i back up everywhere ) :D

2

Simply move your entire Servoy folder from Applications to your external drive.

Make sure neither Servoy nor Sybase are running when you make the move.

3

Thanks, Jan.

That’s actually what i’ve been doing. The only caveot is that when I want to eject my hardrive it tell me that I can’t because the drive is in use (OSX 10.3). So I have to reboot or shut down the computer.

I guess that’s because the Java engine is running and linking to the hardrive.

I was hoping I might be able to install Servoy in each machine and then have both installations connect to the external.

Is that possible/desirable?

Thanks, Michael

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Most probably you can’t unmount the drive if you don’t stop ASA (the sybase database). When you quit Servoy Sybase will continue to run. If you plan to use Servoy in most cases from the external drive the best is to change the ASA setting to close when you stop Servoy, edit the sybase.config file in the sybase_db folder and chenge

-ti 0

into:

-ga

That option will cause ASA to stop running when Servoy stops. After stopping Servoy you should be able to eject the harddrive after about 10 seconds.

Alternatively you can kill the ASA process (named dbsrv9) using the activity monitor once you’ve quit Servoy.[/code]

5

A thing of beauty. Works like a charm.

Thanks, Jan