Portable Hard Drive

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
October 21, 2025
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I am trying to free up some space on my hard drive. I have 15 years of proseries on my computer. While I could simply delete a few old years, I was wondering if anyone has moved the program to a portable hard drive and been able to run the program?

ProSeries Professional

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TaxGuyBill

Level 15

Generally, the installation needs to be on your main hard drive.

While the data files could go on another drive, I think the data files are fairly small.

Fifteen years? Do you EVER go back more than six years? If not, uninstall the older versions.

Hard drives are fairly low-cost; you would be better off finding someone that could transfer EVERYTHING to a new, larger internal hard drive. Or if your computer is fairly old, replace your computer and make sure your new computer has a larger hard drive.

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taksmanjim

Level 2

ive used an external drive for 3 years now with only last year some issues cropping up with where the software wants to put files. its part of my data security plan, unpluggin the drive when i'm done workiing on one of the 140 returns i do, its a hobby more than a business. i'd like to continue that method but very hard to find detailed instructions on what to name the files such as "new folder", which was the problem folder last year. Baswin25 is an easy choice

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hikolieans

Level 3

I have done that with ProSeries before and moving the program to an externs drive does not work very well. It relies on some system files and registry entries that don't transfer over. It will open, but it glitches or freezes or crashes.

The better way to do it is to back up your older data files on a portable drive, then uninstall the older ProSeries years you do not use. This maintains a lighter system, with your older work still being held safely.

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