Restore portable identity safe on USB drive

Whenever I travel to Europe, I carry my usb drive so I can use another computer without hauling my laptop around.   Loss of the portable identity safe in the latest version of 360 is a HUGE inconvenience.  I was upgraded without choice last night and confronted this morning with 3 undesirable choices:  1. Convert my Portable Identity Safe to Local Identity Safe (which is empty and only there because I feel into pitfall by clicking too quickly when the portable wasn't plugged in.   I have assiduously avoided having it on the hard drive since my laptop is left unattended often).  2.  Create a new identity safe, which may not be as bad as it sounds if the new identity safe copied data from the portable, but I've heeded the warning that "configuring" data safe destroys existing data. 

Thereafter I can put my identity safe into the Norton Account in the cloud.  I suspect this is a Norton effort to get with the trend to "cloud" computing, but I don't see that it is more secure to login to your identity safe over a foreign internet connection?  And how do I get access to the login for my Norton account to access  my identity safe if I don't have identity safe – do I write the password on a piece of paper in my wallet?  Sometimes without being connected to the Internet, I just want to look up a web address.

 

The portability of identity safe is the only reason I keep a subscription to Norton. I can get virus protection from my internet provider for free. After upmpteen years with Norton I hate to migrate to iron key, but they're driving me away.   I really can't live without a portable identity safe. Not to mention the hours the frustration I feel when contemplating the time spent setting it up over the years..