Remote programming

[Solong_2286]

Hi everyone, has anyone figured out how to prepare a service schedule on one machine (your home computer) and then transfer that to another (the church computer)? Is it possible to persuade EasySlides 5 that all its databases, bibles and schedules are on a big memory stick or even an external hard disk? It is tedious dragging a computer back and forth to church or even getting to church an hour early to write the schedule.

[wk]

Hi. Yes it can be done.

On computer 1:-
– Plug in your blank USB (or no EasyslidesData folder present)
– Start easyslides v5, then select Tools->Relocate EasyslidesData Folder
– When Relocate EasyslidesData Folder Window appears, click folder icon and navigate to the USB drive (at the top level, no need to go into a subfolder).
– Ensure “Copy All data to the new location” is clicked.
– Click OK
– When relocate is done, there will be a new EasyslidesData folder on your USB. Easyslides will close.

On computer 2:-
– Plug in that USB.
– Start easyslides v5, then select Tools->Relocate EasyslidesData Folder
– When Relocate EasyslidesData Folder Window appears, click folder icon and navigate to the USB drive. Don’t select the EasyslidesData folder but select the folder above it, ie. if you see F:/EasyslidesData, just select F:/.
– UNTICK “Copy All data to the new location”.
– Click OK
– When relocate is done, easyslides will close.

When you start up easyslides on any of the two computers with the USB plugged in, it will point to the USB drive EasyslidesData Folder.

With v5.1, there is an additional functionality which lets you select a profile. Go to File->Select User Profile and select “Shared” for both computers (when the USB is plugged in).
This means any settings you set on one computer will be used on the other computer because you will be using the same profile (rather than the profile specific to each computer).

Hope the above is what you are looking for.

Just to add that an alternative from the above when using 5.1 is to set the File->Select User Profile and select “Shared” for both computers. Make sure both computers uses the same drive letter for the EasyslidesData folder. After you have set up all your schedule, etc at home, just copy the folder to the USB. Bring the USB to church and copy the USB content to the church computer overwriting the EasyslidesData folder. When you run easyslides on the church computer, it will pick up the “Shared” profile and should run the schedules, etc like the home computer.

Do many tests though before you go with it in case there are Windows setup differences between the two computers.

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