I have made a shareable drive and launch file on my Windows 10 computer. When I open the launch file, it just flashes and disappears and doesn’t start the shareable RootsMagic file.
The purpose of a shareable drive is for use by someone without RootsMagic installed on their computer. Does the tested machine meet that criteria?
The computer I am testing it on has a very old version of RootsMagic on it. If the computer didn’t have it on it, would it work?
Should, that’s the designed purpose and there has not been any reports of this feature not doing its job.
As per this machine with an old version of RM, versions 8-10 use a different database file structure and filename extension (databasename.RMTREE) so RM7 and older couldn’t work in conjunction.
The presence or absence of any sort of version of RM in the second machine shouldn’t have anything to do with whether RM will open on the the shareable drive.
What are the exact steps you are using to start RM on the shareable drive? In particular, are you running the .bat file that’s installed on the shareable drive?
Actually, a good test of the shareable drive is to see if it will run on your first computer, the computer where you made it.
Oh, it sounds like You might see a flash of DOS windows… make sure the desktop version of RM is not open at the same time you try to open the created shareable drive.
You are correct. When I had the RM closed, I was able to open the shareable drive. Thank you!