Copy XBox 360 Gamer Profile

DarthSonic if you could explain more on this.

My understanding is that the profile is stored centrally on the server, but wherever your profile is being used it is at the time hard coded to that XBOX. If you Recover the profile in the process of recovering it hard codes the XBOX, HDD or Memory Card ID to your gamerprofile so that it would only work on that device.

So in Evil_RSA's case, yes if each user Recovered their gamer profile to your XBOX they can all play as their gamertags/profiles will all now reside on your XBOX. And yes when they get back home, they can recover it back to their XBOX which will then invalidate the one on your XBOX and it would work at their homes again. You would still see their profile on your XBOX, but it would give you a message that it has been recovered or moved.

So a couple of suggestions, only 1 of your friends would need to recover their tag to your X360, the other 2 should have the profiles on memory cards, and you of course have yours already on the Xbox. This would be the quickest way to have 4 people playing. Unless some of your friends live together and you store more than 1 profile on a memory card.

Are you sure that it would remove them from my system?  The profiles don't seem to be married to the console; maybe the HDD, but not the console.  I say this because one of my friends brings his 20GB HDD over all the time, and when he does a drive swap he can sign right on into his account from my console, without and server errors about miss matched profile-hardware ID's.  If they are married to the drives, then my next thoughtis to have everyone bring their profiles over, on their memory cards, move them onto my HDD, and then do a Image backup with Xplorer360, move everyone's profiles back to their memory cards, then blast back the image of my drive with all of their profiles on it and see what happens.  This way I'd have a snapshot of my drive while everyone's profiles where still on it, and they'd also have their profiles back on their memory cards so they can bring them back home.  It's a lot of horsing around, but, it would only be done the one time if it worked.

Thoughts?

Then each of your friends could copy their profiles on a memory card and because only two could fit in the memory slots at a time maybe you could copy one of the profile to another memory card before playing?

I can't remember that I had to recover my profile after using it on another xbox. But maybe this was the case.

you could also do a combination of recovery and memory card...
in my opinion, using a memory card is far easier & quicker than the recover the profile.  moving the profile to the memory card is a relatively quick process.  the recover process is slower...

so i'd use memory cards where possible, and then use profile recovery when the memory card slots are full  (and you can store more than one profile on a memory card....  although that may not be feasible with people living in different locations)

and as others have explained above, both options make it so that you can only have a valid profile on one console/device at a time.