Quote - Have you thought of adding the runtime as a networked drive? Saves you from copying the whole thing.

 

That's actually how I used to do things - everything was installed to a NAS and I accessed it from there. I had two issues with it - the first was that it was a tad slow (and I suspect that with this machine seeming to be slow in accessing mapped drives that the slowness would be much MUCH worse) and the second was that in Jan '11 (might have been Feb) my NAS up and died on me, a 2TB NAS just vanished POOF. So now for speed and for backup-reliability I have my runtimes locally on any PC I might want to access them from. that way if one thing dies, I don't have to start reinstalling everything from scratch again :( plus of course speed should be the best that each machine can manage at any given time.

 

I mostly use Synctoy to keep them updated with a central repository, so that updates get echoed, but that doesn't help when I'm trying to copy the whole darned thing. Copy has been going slowly today, but going.

 

Friday tomorrow and the boy will be returning, but I should have time to play from time to time as usual. I'm very glad that I didn't take anyone's money on the assumption I'd be able to do some serious playing this week, as I'd have been proven wrong!

 

Cheers,

 

Cliff