Re: FMPro 7 on a USB-stick
- From: Fons <FonsNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:31:08 +0200
Op Wed, 14 May 2008 13:17:17 -0700 schreef FastWolf
<wolfsofast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Wed, 14 May 2008 01:09:40 -0700 (PDT), Fons <f.panken@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 14 mei, 04:35, FastWolf <wolfsof...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 03:13:58 -0700 (PDT), Fons <f.pan...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to put FMPRO 7 on a USB-stick, so that I can use it on
other PC's where FMPRO isn't installed?
If so, how can I do that?
Thanks in advange.
It's not likely to work under Windows. Without registering the
program (in the Windows registry, not with FileMaker) the OS probably
isn't going to support it. It *might* be possible to create a fmp.ini
for it; never tried that myself. One never knows until one tries ...
--
FW
I have FMPro 5 on my USB-stick and that works fine. But when I tried 7
I got the message that it wasn't installed correctly.
FMP 5 came out in 1999. The current Windows version was Win98, which
was a whole lot more forgiving (and flexible) with this kind of thing.
FMP 7 was 5 years later and the OS was a lot different.
I can install it again and then look which files he has installed on
the C-drive and put them also on my USB-stick.
But I was just hoping that someone already has succeded in this, but
it doesn't look that way :-(
Well there is another possibility. I've done this with other apps but
not FileMaker; no reason why it wouldn't work though. What you can do
is export the relevant registry keys from a Windows system that
already has FMP 7 installed on it. Like so:
[please follow instructions carefully -- your use is at your own risk]
1) Start-}Run-}regedit.exe
[in regedit]
2) Edit-}Find... (or CTRL-F)
Enter "FileMaker" for Find what, check Keys, uncheck everything else,
click Find next.
3) When regedit displays a found result, right-click it in the LEFT
PANE of the regedit window and click Export. Assign a name to the
exported file (i.e. FMP-REG1), regedit will append the .reg extension
for you; save to a separate folder (i.e. FMP-REG) on your USB-stick.
4) Click Find Next (or hit F3). Repeat step 3 (FMP-REG2.reg,
FMP-REG3.reg, and so forth) for every result regedit finds. Close
regedit when you're finished.
5) Before you run FMP from the stick, open the FMP-REG folder. Right
click the first .reg file and click Merge. It'll ask you to confirm,
click Yes.
6) Repeat step 5 for the rest of the .reg files.
7) Launch FileMaker Pro directly from the stick.
One problem that sometimes comes up doing this is resolving the path
to some components. What's merged into the registry probably isn't
going to be the same path as the USB-stick install. But it might not
even matter.
If you try this let me know how it works out.
hope this helps
I like this!
It might have a change, I'll try this coming sunday.
I'll let you know.
Have Fun
Fons
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