Install and Run Heritage Collector From a Portable External Hard Drive
Run From an External Portable Hard Drive
Take ALL of your photos and information with your on an external portable hard drive as you travel on vacations, go to family reunions, or to do genealogy research.
Is Your Hard Drive Filling Up?
Pictures, videos and sound files can quickly fill up a hard drive. Moving these files to a portable external hard drive can free up a lot space. Bonus! Heritage Collector will make it easier and more efficient to organize and move these files off your hard drive to an external hard drive. You can then run Heritage Collector from the portable external hard drive connected to your computer or fun another Windows PC.
An external portable hard drive is so small it will fit in your shirt pocket.
Vacations, World Travel, and Genealogy Research
Travel and mobility is now a normal part of our world. We rely on our cameras and smartphone to record and preserve these experiences with photos, videos and sound recordings.
Photo showing five different type of information that can be searched.
How an External Hard Drive Can Help
Take It ALL With You
Just imagine how nice it would be to have all your photos and information with you as you travel on a vacation, attend a family reunion, visit a relative, or while you are doing research a family history library.
Airline Travel
New regulations are making it harder to take a notebook computer with you on an airplane. Not to mention the risk of loss or damage to your computer during your trip. For a short time in 2017, Homeland Security banned laptops from being carried onto an airplane. As we all know, these regulations can change without much warning.Taking along an external portable hard drive makes it faster and easier to check in. It doesn’t take as much space or add weight to your carry-on like a notebook.
Use During a Vacation
It’s easy to fill up the storage in your camera or smartphone If you like to take a lot of photos, videos, and record sound. Obviously you can take along extra USB cards for your phone or camera. However, you’ll get a lot more bang for you buck comparing the cost of the USB cards to the amount of storage space with an external hard drive.
Documenting Experiences and Guard Against Memory Loss
It’s hard to remember names, details, dates, and experiences after returning from a vacation or trip. Take a little extra time each evening to add information and details when moving files off your camera or smartphone and into Heritage Collector on the external drive. When you arrive home you won’t have to strain and worry about remembering the important names, dates, places and experiences you had during your journey.
Attach an External Hard Drive
There are many advantages to install Heritage Collector on a portable external hard drive connected the drive to a notebook or desktop computer system.
Attaching a portable external hard drive is as simple as inserting a cable.
Advantages
- Save hard drive space on a notebook or desktop computer.
- Take all your photos and information with you wherever you go.
- Update, add, and share information at a family reunion.
- Leave your heavy notebook or desktop computer home.
- Access ALL your family history information when you are doing research.
Note: Heritage Collector is a Windows software program. External hard drives will need to be plugged into a Windows computer or a computer running Parallels, Bootcampe or other Windows OS on a Mac computer.