Between two computers

JobGalvan

We use OPENLP at our church. I would like to have OPENLP on my home computer to be able to prepare the service for sunday at home and then go to church and have the same setup. We do not have internet at the church so I would be taking what I worked on at home on a USB to take to the church. Both computers are desktops and again the church has no internet connection.
thank you

PaulRowell

As long as you don't save the service file in the lite format you will be fine. If you have the option to update the song database with missing songs enabled then the song database at church will also be kept up to date should someone decide to change a hymn at the last minute!

revncele

JobGalvan,
I found that using OpenLp Portable on a USB drive worked best for us. We had issues with media and keeping the song database up to date, as well as some other quirks.
It is important that the portable USB is given the same drive letter on both systems. Because OpenLP references media with a fixed path.

I used this simple batch file on the USB to quickly go to the settings if needed:
cd C:/
diskmgmt.msc

I use drive letter O as something easy to remember and not prone to be used by anything else.

By the way, an added feature, since the church does not internet, is that you can keep the OpenLP updated to the latest version, including the remote, without too much fuss.

Remember to run OpenLP from the USB, not the installed icon.

Fred

JobGalvan

Thank you so much for all the help. Blessings