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repairman7458
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Can I download or should I say install a recording software like Audacity, Cake walk, or Studio One onto an external hard drive? Thanks for any help that I can get.
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
It's possible...but not the recommended best-practice.
While the external IS just another "drive"...there's more risk in how it interacts with the OS and registry, and where the Application Folder stuff gets put, etc..etc.
If you remove the drive and then get a different drive letter when reconnecting...folders/files could be disconnected...etc..etc.
Some smaller standalone apps that pretty much run within their own folder would not be a problem...but the bigger apps that really intertwine themselves with the OS and registry kinda' prefer being right next to mama.
Anyway....you can try one app at a time and see what you get.
Ideally....you would move all your data/junk to the external if you have no more room on the internal...and keep the OS and apps on one drive, and the data/junk on the external.
While the external IS just another "drive"...there's more risk in how it interacts with the OS and registry, and where the Application Folder stuff gets put, etc..etc.
If you remove the drive and then get a different drive letter when reconnecting...folders/files could be disconnected...etc..etc.
Some smaller standalone apps that pretty much run within their own folder would not be a problem...but the bigger apps that really intertwine themselves with the OS and registry kinda' prefer being right next to mama.
Anyway....you can try one app at a time and see what you get.
Ideally....you would move all your data/junk to the external if you have no more room on the internal...and keep the OS and apps on one drive, and the data/junk on the external.
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repairman7458
New member
Thanks a lot, that was what I had thought would happened.
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ecc83
Well-known member
Depends on the software. Reaper for instance give you a choice of a "portable" version that you can put onto and run from a usb stick. In fact I used Reaper some years ago in just that way with a Berry UCA202 (no drivers to install) on a PC for which I had no admin rights , i.e. I could not install jack! It would however run Reaper and let me save to the hard drive.
Dave.
PTravel
Senior Senior Member
Most complex software installs itself into a number of places, including multiple places in the Windows folder, the User/App Data folder and others as well as adding entries into the registry, which are almost always located on the boot drive. Absent "portable" versions, as mentioned by a poster, you gain no real advantage by installing to an external drive. You won't be able to run that program on another computer, and your Windows system may run into trouble if you disconnect the external drive and the OS can't find DLLs that it expected because of registry and other entries.
Best practice is to install programs on the same drive as the OS and use another drive, either internal or external, for data.
Best practice is to install programs on the same drive as the OS and use another drive, either internal or external, for data.
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LenoraCammarata
Banned
you can easily download it by picking the option of download, as it is recommended to be the best one
JimmyS1969
MOODerator
What? That makes no sense...
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cristiprop
New member
You can do it But It's not recommended. Sure Audacity is Good but It doesn't have all the possibilities a paid for program can have. Go spend some money for proffessionalism!