Yes a flash drive is useful but I already have 2 of them with all of my other stuff on them. A 512mb for work stuff and a 2GB for my pictures. The only other thing I do on this computer is play games.

I'm sure it will be of some use eventually. At least now I know that if there is a game I like to check and see if it's U3 compatable first before I buy it.

There you go!

jldcat, do you play on other computers a lot? Is that why you purchased the U3 drive?

Ana

No, I don't play on other computers. I actually bought it thinking I could free up hard drive space. I play on a laptop and only have an 80GB hard drive and with the amount of games I already have on it....well you know..LOL

I mistakenly thought I would be able to download all of the games I had already purchased and then take them off the hard drive. If I had known that I had to re-purchase and that there were only a small number of games I like, I likely wouldn't have bought it. I'd probably have put the money towards an external hard drive instead.

But like I said, buyer beware and eventually I will find something to use it for or maybe give it away or something.

jld, Linda talked some time ago about how she moved her BFG games to an external drive and took them off her hard drive. So if you are just wanting to play them on your computer but free up space, you could do that.

Let me see if I can find that post.

edit: Didn't find that one, but did find one from Adorable.

That would be wonderful looney4labs. It will be a while before I can afford one, I'm on unemployment at the mo, but maybe I could put it on my birthday list...LOL

jld, I'm confused.

All I was saying was to transfer the games you now have to the flash drive you bought and play them from that. That way you would be using that drive you spent money for, and freeing up hard drive space at the same time.

Course, I would try one game first to make sure it worked

Oh sorry, I read your email and only saw "external drive" in the first part...LOL I thought you meant an external hard drive.

I wonder how she can play her games on a flash drive though? I've tried it with my other flash drives and it doesnt work. Man, how confusing is this? It's Friday though so I'm not surprised that my brain left for vacation before I did....HAHA

Well, why don't you try downloading a demo to the flash drive and see if it will play that way? I would think it should, but that's just me thinking

OK, I tried downloading to the flash drive but while it saved the "play my games" icon on the drive, it saved the game to my hard drive.

Maybe what I'll do is email BFG support and see what they have to say. I was kind of hoping BFG-Guy would check back but he's likely too busy.

Sorry jld, I don't know what to tell you, but I think emailing or chatting with live support(next week when they are open again) is your best bet.

If you do, please let us know what they say as it is a topic many folks are interested in.

As requested in the rules, I cannot stress enough the importance of not using this forum to get through to BigFish. Please use the BigFish Support.

BFG-Guy is not here to help guide anyone through support for getting games running etc. He pays a well trained staff to do that for him. I am certain he has a full day and when he does visit here it is not for that. If you enjoy his visits here, make them enjoyable and not a chore. PLEASE contact them directly through the appropriate channels.

Ana

Sorry Ana. I guess I just got carried away. You know how sometimes you just get "into" a conversation. I, by no means, want to make BFG-Guy uncomfortable in any way and this conversation was not meant to slight bigfishgames in any way. He's great for coming here and keeping us updated on things.

I did contact customer support and if it's OK I will post the answer here for anyone else who may have the same problem.

Please do post the answer jldcat, others may run into this problem also.

Sue

I will do that texaslady, thanks!

I heard back from Bigfish support. They asked for a lists of the U3 games I had purchased previously and they will send me the activation codes for them

I think that means that you don't have to re-purchase U3 compatible games which is wonderful!!

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Ok, after I emailed the games I had purchased I got another email back telling me that they are indeed different versions so 2 games have to be purchased in order to have one on your hard drive and one on the U3.

So, I wouldn't advise spending the money on a U3 unless you don't own the games on the U3 bigfish site.

Here is a link to the help section for the U3 drive.

http://sandisk.bigfishgames.com/help/index.html

That's really good news jld