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Comment by Victoria Turner on March 7, 2011 at 1:25pm

Please ignore my previous post. I have now solved what was actually not a problem.  I had ticked the verified box accidentally Sorry to waste people's time.

Victoria

Comment by Victoria Turner on March 7, 2011 at 12:48pm

My Legacy 7.5 which I downloaded to update my 7 a couple of days ago has somehow suddenly deleted all my Master Lists. View/Master Lists confirms that.

What has happened and how do I/Can I get them back?  I have started a discussion but I am getting desperate as the programme is now virtually useless. Never had problems with Legacy before in all the years I have used it.

Victoria

 

Comment by Sharon Haas on March 2, 2011 at 1:52am

Thanks Ron. I'm going to try to working on it tomorrow evening or Thursday. I did read the manual but will have to reread it. So I put the manual on a flashstick so I can plug it into my other computer while I work on the drive from this computer.

Comment by Ron Ferguson on March 1, 2011 at 5:00pm

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As I said I can only give you the basics, 'm afraid that I find the multiplicity of drives to which you refer totally confusing - probably because I haven't got your set up in front of me, and hence cannot form a picture, which I'm afraid is the way my head works!

 

As I said, I can only describe to you the basics, and I'm afraid that you will have to work out how to fit this to your set-up yourself. If you get stuck on a *specific* point or hit a problems then I will be happy to try and help sort it.

Comment by Sharon Haas on March 1, 2011 at 2:00pm

Well I'm off to do some Indexing. Didn't get any done yesterday. I will check back later. Thanks for the help I will try it later.

Comment by Sharon Haas on March 1, 2011 at 1:58pm

Ron thanks. That's exactly what I want to do. But I will first have to move the info off my H drive. Because WD my passport made G and H. Then I will have to delete everything off G. Then I just have to copy my Legacy Data and the rest of folders to G. and it won't make any other drives. Is this how I am understanding you. Because if it is that's exactly what I want to do.

Comment by Ron Ferguson on March 1, 2011 at 6:08am

Having written that, I wished to edit it a little, but could not see an Edit button! So, as I described for your second machine, you can also redirect Legacy to use the G Drive for your data on your first machine, so that an update on either machine will be there for both. When you are really comfortable with this you could delete your .fdb files from C:/Legacy>Data etc. to avoid future confusion.

Comment by Ron Ferguson on March 1, 2011 at 6:02am

Sharon, I am only able to give you general information, as otherwise I think I may confuse us both! But hopefully it will help.

For the moment forget all your flash cards, multiple drives and any USB sticks, or whatever you call your add-ons. Simply install Legacy on your C: Drive on all your machines, as recommended by Legacy, if you haven't already done so. It is important that you do this. Whilst it is possible to run Legacy from an external drive, you can only do this for one machine, and for simplicity I do not recommend this for you, it would be better to install the program on each machine. Just use your external drive for your Data.

 

Imagine each drive as a filing cabinet in which there are a number of folders - providing you have put them there! If, on your main PC you go to the C: Drive and open the Legacy folder, you will it contains a number of folders these you can copy across into your G Drive, or any other Drive. In other words all you are doing is copying the folders and their contents into another filing cabinet. You Legacy data files are contained in the Data folder, so that should be copied across, and then any other which may contain stuff which you want eg. any folder with pictures in it.

 

Having done that you can now remove the G drive from the PC *BUT* either switch off the PC first *OR* use "Safely Remove Hardware", otherwise you may lose some/all data.

 

On the second machine, on which you have already installed Legacy in the C: Drive, plug in the G Drive - you may find that it now has a different letter, that does not matter. Open Legacy and then File>Open Family File, in the box at the top of this screen select your external drive and in the Legacy Data folder you will find you family.fdb file, just open that. You will also, in the same way have to tell this machine where your picture files are.

 

 

Comment by Sharon Haas on February 28, 2011 at 10:18pm

Thanks Bob & Lew. I will have to ponder on this. I think if I move everything off the H drive to my C drive I will be safe to delete everything from My Passport Drive G: I should probably also make sure I move the last backup not sure about that one. I get very nervous because I don't want to mess things up. I have no teenagers in the area So when I have a clear mind I will try to read the manual that I had to download in order to know anything about this drive and I had already done set everything up by then. Wish it came with a printed manual that would have explained it all out before I plugged it in.

Comment by Ben Street Sessions on February 28, 2011 at 9:40pm

Where can I hire a genealogical researcher to trace my maternal lineage? I think they came to the U.S. from England, Ireland, and Scotland. and lived in Virginia, Tennessee, N.Carolina, and Mississippi.The surname is STREET.

Blessings, Ben Street Sessions

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