Install C4D on external HD/flash USB

#1

Hi, I need to travel interstates for work but I do preferably working on my desktop than my laptop. Is it possible to install the C4D on external HD/flash USB and to work from there? So that I could use a desktop when I am home and laptop when I travel with the same license?

Can anyone please share their experience. Or is there other methods could work around it? Thank you.

P.s. Maybe I wasn’t searching for the correct keywords. I don’t seem to find the existing related topics on Google or the search here.

#2

Just google this:

install cinema 4d on external hdd flash drive

But it shouldn’t be a problem, C4D on an external.

#3

Thanks @Rikof
I’ve read some of them. This is one of the comments from 2015 4 years ago.

“It used to be that you could just copy the Maxon>Cinema directory and move it elsewhere, but recent versions store files in a number of places. I’d just reinstall it from the discs.”

And the other topics are at least 8-9 years ago and not really have a closed answer.

I feel this should be a common issue that a freelancer would encounter. Or workers that need to travel from place to place. I wonder how do these people work around.

We are in fact planning to get C4D, so I don’t have a license to do an experiment. Would love to hear if anyone would share their experiences.

#4

This is very easy to do. The only real dependencies outside of the Cinema 4D installation folder are the preferences, which you can define to be in any place you like using a command line parameter, and the Visual Studio libraries on Windows, which you have to have installed on every system you want to use Cinema 4D on. Without those libraries certain functionality will just not be available, but many windows systems come with most of them installed.
Another thing that is locally stored is the registration info/license, this can not be switched to be local to a removable drive. If you are using the USB stick in an environment where you always have access to a license server that will also work.
You should be asking such stuff in the Cinema 4D subforum ->http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=47

#5

Thanks @Srek . I should have specified, we use Mac. Would that make a difference to your answer? Cheers for the tip, I will remember next time.

#6

Only in that you don’t have to care about the libaries and that the commandline argument is a bit more diffcult to provide than with Windows. But that is not a Cinema 4D specific issue.