Some users want to keep their GRAMPS data on a removable drive, either for portability between computers or for security. This document describes how to accomplish that, and should work whether using a floppy, a flash drive, or an external hard drive. Unfortunately, there are not any easy instructions for installing GRAMPS and its dependencies on a removable drive, so these instructions assume and require that GRAMPS be installed on any computer to which you connect the drive. ==How it works==The magic is done in scripts that you use to start GRAMPS. The scripts trick GRAMPS into thinking that your user home directory is on the removable drive instead of in the usual place, so that GRAMPS will read and write its configuration and data there. The process is mostly transparent, but you will probably need to edit the media base path each time you run GRAMPS on a different computer. You may also need to edit some settings in the scripts for different computers. If there are certain computers which you use regularly that need different settings in the scripts, you can easily make separate script copies for each one, to avoid the need to reedit them. ==Installation==Save the scripts in the directory you want to use as your GRAMPS home directory on the removable drive. When run, the scripts will direct GRAMPS to the directory they are installed in. Edit the script you will use, so that the values in the Settings section are correct for your computer. ==Windows== ==Linux== ===Maemo===If Don get GRAMPS ported to his Nokia N810, a variation of this script ought to work there, too. That would allow keeping the data on a flash drive, and switching back and forth between PC and N810 GRAMPS. Please, Don? :) ==GRAMPS 2.2== =========================