Logging chat and deals

[geofspa]

Hi BBO experts

 

I am running rather short on HD space and want to delete/move all saved deals and the chat files, no problem with that.

 

I would like to save future deals and chat to a drive other than C: where the bridgebase software is located. Is there a way to save to another drive ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Geof

[fred]

Hi BBO experts

 

I am running rather short on HD space and want to delete/move all saved deals and the chat files, no problem with that.

 

I would like to save future deals and chat to a drive other than C: where the bridgebase software is located. Is there a way to save to another drive ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Geof

Sorry - there is no way to control where these files are stored.

 

I suggest you reinstall BBO on your other drive.

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

[geofspa]

Thanks fred I will do .... does BB work from a flash drive ?

[uday]

can also leave bbo as is and periodically move all the hands from c:\bridge base online\hands\geofspa to your big drive

 

 

I'm sure bbo would work off a flash drive but maybe you would not want that ( it reads/writes a lot during a session, and isnt that bad for a flash drive? I thought they had limited reads/writes, but i have no idea what I'm talking about ).

 

If you do use a flash drive, reinstall bbo to your flash drive. BBO will need the flash drive to always use the same drive id ( X, D, whatever )

 

 

can also instruct bbo to not log hands, use www.bridgebase.com ( hand records ) to find hands.

 

can also try web version at www.bridgebase.com , it logs nothing and uses almost no diskspace

 

U

[geofspa]

Tks Uday ... i'll try the flash and let you know how it goes .... I can always go back to hd and periodic moving deals and chat

[hotShot]

If you are using Vista you can use the command:

mklink

to make BBO save the deals to a different drive.

 

If you are using XP, it should be possible to establish a junction.

[bid_em_up]

Hi BBO experts

 

I am running rather short on HD space and want to delete/move all saved deals and the chat files, no problem with that.

 

I would like to save future deals and chat to a drive other than C: where the bridgebase software is located. Is there a way to save to another drive ?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Geof

How big is your hard drive?

[geofspa]

C drive is 31.5G at 95% usage

 

D drive is 31.3G of which 99.9% is free

 

C drive is used for programs: D drive is for data storage ... at least as I would like to set it up

[finally17]

2 thoughts:

 

with those #s, I'm just guessing here but it sounds like you have just 1 physical drive that is partitioned. if that's the case, you could repartition the drive to add some space to C: (using something like partitionmagic). but bridgebase files are pretty small and doing a lot of work to handle those is much hassle for little reward...i spend a fair amount of time on bbo, and log everything, and my "bridge base online" folder is just 45 MBs.

 

secondly, maybe i'm wrong, but i find it hard to believe you actually have 30 GBs of installed programs and the like and no data. maybe if you have several big computer games installed...but

 

for example, do you perhaps have your digital camera pics on your computer as well, being imported by some organizer like Picasa or the default one that came with your camera? those programs should handle the movement of your pictures to D: with no problem, and it should also be fairly simple to change their settings so that pictures are stored on D: all the time in the future.

 

mp3s, pictures...it should be easier to move that kind of thing, with far greater reward, than it is to mess with bbo...