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BIAB can be copied directly on the PC, but I'm not sure that is the case with the Mac version, Pete.
--Mac


That gets to what I was worried about: I'm no expert here, but I've found that with most Mac programs, you can't just copy the application from one drive or folder to another -- do that, and in many cases it won't work. There is typically an installer program that must be run, and it installs a number of necessary files in other places. Mac OS X has a Library folder, for example, and inside it there's a folder called Application Support. Typically, each program will have its own support folder inside "Application Support." To add to the confusion, Mac OS X has a Library folder for the computer it's running on, and another one (with its own Application Support folder, and more folders inside that) for each User on that computer. I think an installer program may also be putting files in other "hidden" or not obvious places -- in the Preferences folder (also in the Library folder), for example. I just opened my Application Support folder(s), and it turns out I've got folders in there for just about every music/audio application I own, or its vendor -- Logic, GarageBand, Native Instruments, Roxio, Garritan, etc. The lone exception seems to be PG -- I don't see an application support folder for PG or BIAB, so perhaps BIAB does not work in this way. Still, I think the PG installer must be doing some extra work besides copying files (installing fonts, at least?) -- or why does PG give us an installer, and tell us to use it?

So it seems to me (somebody tell me I'm wrong) that down the road, I'd still need to install BIAB using the installer that came on PG's USB hard drive -- and even if I've updated the BIAB program running on the drive, wouldn't it still be installing an old version (and/or any resources for that old version)?
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Anyway, if you do run the installer from outrigger drive, the only update you will have to apply would be the last one available, as it will contain all the stuff that came before it as well as the latest and greatest additions.
--Mac


I hope it's true that all I'd have to do then is run PG's latest update, and it would update my build 5, for example, to build 15 or whatever it is then. But it seems to me that often software updates don't work that way -- jump a few versions ahead, and often you've got to do several time-consuming intermediate updates before you can update to the latest version. Again, I hope PG is the exception here.