RE: Moving location of Orbis and Ibidem files

["Montreal, Steven" <Steven ! Montreal () cuw ! edu>]

Thanks Barrie.  I was able to find the ini file where NB keeps the path
to the Orbis file.  Changing the drive letter in that file did the
trick.

Your warning regarding the durability of flash drives is understood and
I will back up frequently.  Eventually I will get a portable hard drive
which should be more stable.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: notabene@piper.hamline.edu [mailto:notabene@piper.hamline.edu] On
Behalf Of Barrie Fairley
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:52 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
Subject: RE: Moving location of Orbis and Ibidem files

>>>
I would like to use a portable drive for my NB files so I can work
between
three computers relatively easily.  My question is, how can I change
where
Orbis and Ibidem looks for the files?  I can change the general
directory
for the NB files, but have not been able to do it for the others.  In
essence, I would like to move my existing files to a different location.

Is there a way to do this?
<<<

Steve,

I run with two copies of NB on my desktop, one adjusted to provide
Spanish-style/language citations.  They share the same Ibidem and Orbis
databases.  They are kept, together with my saved NB files, in folders
that
I keep in one place (a different drive) that I backup regularly.  In
your
case, that "in one place" would presumably be your flash drive or
whatever
media you use.  Have a look at the Ibidem and Orbis
Help|Index|Find|Defaults
or Backup for a discussion of this.  

I might add a word of caution and that is that I would not want to keep
valuable data permanently on a flash drive.  I am not sure of their
long-term reliability with respect to every byte of stored information.

Barrie Fairley