Limited Space on Laptop, Should I Use RM to Go?

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I have an ASUS laptop, It doesn’t have much memory on it. (the other day I had about 8GB available) I don’t have much on here at all. Because of the way the laptop designed, adding memory is not an option. Should I use Root Magic to go on a flash drive instead of having RM on my laptop?

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Not really.

Sounds like you’re talking about RAM (random access memory). Using RM to Go is unlikely to use less computer memory. You are just faced with possible slower execution depending on other programs running in the background and or other services (Windows or Mac) configured to use resources at the same time and swap things in and out.

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do you mean harddrive? or RAM?

if you are referring to disk space – are you making regular file backup with media? (if so that can eat up space rather quickly.

if you have 8gb of RAM available that is healthy

8gb total RAM is okay but you may run into some performance lag.

Kevin

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I think you’re talking about hard drive space. My HP Stream had a very small hard drive. I put RM To-Go on a sd card and would run it from there.

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I apologize for my terminology. The laptop has 4GB of RAM. The 8GB was how much storage I had left. Since then, I have made some deletions, so now I have 14GB of storage.

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I was not going to upload RM to my laptop, but to load it onto a flash drive since the flash drive has more storage than the laptop.

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Yes, this is what I meant. Do you see any disadvantages to using ‘to go’ over the regular Roots Magic? Why did you choose to use a sd card instead of a USB flash drive?

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I would put your RM database, Media, etc on an external hard drive but still run RM from the laptop (rather then to-go).

Additionally, I would put any Documents, downloads, pictures on the external drive.

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My HP Stream had a built in SD card slot so I didn’t need an external USB drive sticking out.

You will need enough space on your laptop to install RM on, then you can use it to install RM To-Go. (Unless, you have another computer you can create RM To-Go on.) Once you have RM To-Go on the USB drive you can uninstall RM from the laptop. The only difference you will find running RM from the USB drive is speed. It will run a little slower off the USB drive.

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If you have plenty of storage on a “modern” external storage device, You ~could even~ install RootsMagic to that Drive name/letter, and it would use the minimal amount of your Operating System’s drive space for saving config files and such. One should still consider archiving, separately, “copies” of database Backups (or databases) for duality of preservation.

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Yes, I will be saving multiple copies of doc ‘just in case’. Thank you for all your help!

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Thank you for all of your help!

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Thank you MadDog, I had an idea of what I wanted to do and I then reached out to RM. They advised I do what you mentioned. Thanks again

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THanks for all of your help Kevin.

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