Can you put the applications on an external Hard drive?

I don't have a computer, I just use the school's. I am starting a business and I want to use Adobe Muse, but my school does't provide it, so i was wondering if i could download it to an external hard drive and plug it into any mac that I am at to use it, or does the program need to be on the computers hard drive to use it.

You cannot use an external removable drive. The installer will prevent it in the first place and as you already guessed, the specifics of the licensing system require a persistent install on an internal drive.
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iTunes/Preferences/Advanced : point your iTunes to the new location of the Library.
Set "Share on local network" in the Sharing tab, and you or everyone on the local network can play your music.
You make a backup first of the Library.
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have fun.

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Am I being a plonker, but it doesn't seem as simple as that. If I try and import via itunes it seems to want me to select the individual music file not the folder which holds all the music.
Also if I simply import it, won't my mac copy the files from my external hard drive back on to my laptop? Which makes me think I change the location where all the music is stored in itunes...?
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Sorry if this has been posted before . . .
I have a 160GB iPod and like with most people, my iPod is larger than my laptop and subsequently I am running out of free space on my laptop due to all the movies and music.
I’m not so worried about the music, but I would like to remove the burnt movies from my laptop, but leave them on my iPod. Is there any way of using the iPod like an external hard drive? If I delete the movies from my laptop – the iPod tries to Sync and I lose everything?
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Interesting - and thank you for the speedy reply John!
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dckramermd wrote:
How can I move software program over to an external hard drive to free up space on my imac. I have move documents and photos and movies but the only thing left is softward programs. How do you move them to the external drive?
EXTREMELY poor idea! Leave the apps on the internal HD. You can move files and libraries from iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Aperture, etc.. to an external HD but leave the apps them self on the internal HD.
Did you empty the Trash after moving all that data to the EHD??

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I have an external HDD that I use for backups once in a while, BUT to be honest with you I last backed up my iTunes stuff (around 30K songs) over a year ago. Maybe it is time for another backup.
In all fairness, the whole time I have been using Mac's (since 2001) I have never had a major crash (knock on wood) so it has not been high on my priority list tbh. This said, how Apple have been acting lately I feel they have become a little too big for them selves and I have started to notice errors here and there, something that was unheard of earlier
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EDIT: Oh, maybe I misunderstood the question

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