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When using TK8 Safe, you can take the entire program and your file with you on the portable device (like USB memory keys, flash cards, external hard drives, etc.).

 

First, still, you need that the program is installed to your local computer. Once you are in need to put the program to the portable device, run the program (from your local computer) and open the File menu. Under the "Send to" submenu select "Portable device". The appearing window allows you to specify what files you would like to port to your device.

 

You have the following options available:

 

For example, if you want to keep the space acquired by the program minimal, you can left out the help file and thus save some space on the device.

 

Registration info option is available only when you already have the program registered. When the registration info is ported to the device, and you run the program from there, it is running in the registered mode for the time you work on that computer. So you can use the full functionality without any limitations.

 

You also have an option to select the exact target folder on the device you prefer to store the program and your file. For this click the Select button. Additionally, when the option "Put all file to TK8 Safe sub folder" is checked, additional folder is created (if it doesn't exist yet) under to the selected location.

 

After you click the "Start" button, your data is in two locations (your local computer AND the portable device). So you should decide from which location you start working with your data and which file you keep as a secondary file. The problem might arise when you add one entry to the file on the portable device, and the other entry to your local file. In such situations the synchronization feature (available in the Professional version) will help, though, to keep both files the same.

 

If you prefer to keep the entire and latest information on the portable device, you can just start using the program from that location all the time and in such case you have no need to synchronize files nor think about which file to use.

If you are using the local copy in most cases, and the file is in on the portable device just for case you need it sometimes, you might be in need to refresh that data on the device. For this, just open up the "Send to portable device" window again, and re-send the data to the device. The old data is then overwritten with your fresh, local information.