LivePC Engine User Guide - Windows
Managing Your Files on a LivePC
Saving personal data files
Personal changes in a LivePC™ are handled differently from system changes. System changes are 'cleaned up' when the LivePC reboots. This prevents unwanted changes to the system from malicious software like viruses and spyware.
However, a LivePC wouldn't be very useful if it also cleaned up all of your personal files! For this reason, the LivePC Engine™ provides a user data feature for the LivePCs to store a your personal data so that it survives LivePC reboots and updates. This allows you to get updates made by the LivePC publisher without losing your personal files.
The publisher of a LivePC can use this feature to set aside some folders in the LivePC for personal user data. Any files stored in these folders will NOT be deleted on a reboot or an update.
When you are working in Windows LivePC that has a folder set aside, you can save your files in the 'My Documents' folder in the LivePC. If the LivePC is Linux-based, you can save your data anywhere under Home. If you save a document to the Desktop under Windows, it will not be available on the host until you logoff.
To view your data saved in 'My Documents' when running a Windows LivePC or in the home directory when running a Linux Live PC, click on 'LivePC local documents' on the LivePC Engine main screen.
Sharing files between multiple LivePCs
To easily share files between multiple LivePCs and the host, you can use a folder called 'My Shared LivePC Documents'. You need to enable file sharing by checking 'Allow access to My Shared LivePC Documents'. If a LivePC does not support accessing documents from the host, then the 'LivePC local documents' and 'Allow access to My Shared LivePC Documents'' will be grayed and unresponsive.
File and printer sharing must be enabled on the host for this feature to work. If you do not have file and printer sharing enabled, we will give you a warning.
When running a LivePC this will appear as a folder on your LivePC's desktop called 'My Shared LivePC Documents'. If you drag a file into this folder, it will be accessible by the other LivePCs. In addition, if you click on 'My Shared LivePC Documents' in the LivePC Engine, then the folder will open on the host too.
Our system never deletes user files, even if you remove the LivePC. If you remove a LivePC and then resubscribe later to the same LivePC, all of your previous user files will be there. Please note this is true even if you uninstall the LivePC Engine software.
