After innumerable continuous hours staring at the screen, I am mentally spent by five. Then begins the joyous task of returning calls, dictating, etc. which again takes me a couple of hours with Dragon. I would like to leave after the last patient and finish work after dinner at home.

My AC folder is close to 2 GB. It has 1.75 GB of scanned imported items and the rest are the program .mdb fles.

My options are:

1. Copy the entire 2 GB into a thumb drive, copy it into the home computer, work on it at home and bring it back in the morning, delete the existing folder and replace it with the 'new' 2 GB folder. This takes painfully long.

2. Synch: After multiple dry runs with synch and my pervasive paranoia, I have decided that I am not man enough to try it.

3. VPN access and logmein have a delay.

4. That leaves me with one last option. Could I just take the .mdb files home, work on it and replace them in the morning? The work at home would be mainly completing my charts and sending reminder mails to my staff. I will not be importing stuff, scheduling or doing anything that the office staff does.

My questions with this option are:@Is anyone doing this in real life, currently? @Is there a chance of data corruption? @Is there a chance that the imported items may lose their link? @My work OS is XP and home is Vista. Is there a chance of a problem?

OR does anyone have any other ideas.

Thank you in advance.