Charles, I am interested in your comment. I have never noticed any problem in editing a Word doc on a flash drive. Can you explain what the problem would be? After all, virtually all files on portable USB drives require an application which is going to be on the computer's hard drive. And in such applications as video editing, one often has files on some external drive, although admittedly, these applications do not actually operate on the file but on file information.

Best,
Ulodesk