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Comment by Bob Rowe on February 28, 2011 at 9:09pm

Hey Sharon,

I tend to agree with Lewis. It seems that you would be wise to befriend yourself with someone in the know on computers. You must have some teenagers in Fountain that could help. How about your church?

Anyway, that Passport is a fine drive and probably the correct way to go. It may have come loaded with some kind of backup software that you may have clicked on something saying 'yes' to making it your backup drive. You don't have to use any of the stuff that came on the drive. Many thumb drives have similar programs on them. If you have filled up the drive already you can delete it all and start over with a clean slate. Then you can use Windows Explorer to copy your stuff from one computer to the other. The drive letters might be different between the computers so it is important to look at the drive label; "My Passport". Then you know that you are copying things to the correct drive.

Good Luck!

Comment by Lewis Hartswick on February 28, 2011 at 4:34pm

Sounds like you need some local help. Is there a local genealogical club or at

least some one you can have help in person. If you were here in Albuquerque I'd

be happy to help.

   ...lew...

Comment by Sharon Haas on February 28, 2011 at 1:58pm

When it comes to technology I am lost. Last year I bought a new HP G62-144DX notebook computer. I have an old IBM thinkpad which I had been using but alot of times I would run out of room on it. Didn't know what programs I could delete. Anyway I had my Legacy program and all of my data, pictures everything on a flash stick. Well when I bought the new Laptop the guy at Best Buy talked me out of buying additional flashsticks and buying a Western Digital My Passport Essential 250 GB USB 2.0. He told me I could use it just like my flashstick. So I brought it home and plugged it in and I managed to somehow make it the backup of my computer and I don't have enough room to backup my whole computer which is not what I wanted to do. It called itself My Passport G: hard drive and CD Drive H removable storage. I do have a few files on the H drive. But this is not what I wanted to do. Is there anyway I can use it like I did with my flashsticks. I only want my legacy program and all my pictures, documents etc. on it. Also when I went to plug it into my Old IBM Thinkpad it was trying to go out to internet or something I can't remember but it wouldn't work on it. My flashsticks I can go back and forth. Right now My Legacy program is on my C: drive with all its data pictures etc. (Everything from Legacy program) plus it got put on My Passport G drive. I probably haven't explained it very well but I sure hope someone can help me. I want to be able to unplug the My Passport drive from one computer and plug it into another computer to be able to use the Legacy program there also. I have the Legacy Deluxe 7.5.0.56 installed haven't even begun to figure all that out. But I know I have alot of fixing to do to get it ready for when we are able to use with new family search. I have 18877 individuals with 7326 Families and 526 sources. I need to learn how to source better and I'm sure I have some duplicate families and I need to get my locations all fixed up. Today I downloaded the Geo Locations but I'm not sure I did it right but I have the downloads on my C drive but I can always redo that if I have to. I'm just mainly concerned about the use of this My Passport. Sorry for the rambling. I'm also trying to figure out this Genealogy Wise Program. I use facebook for keeping in touch with family and friends. But I saw this program on Legacy and thought I'd give it a shot because it deals with genealogy. Any help here would be appreciated. I don't know how to blog. As you can see I'm not real computer literate. I'm a simple person and need really good instructions.

Comment by William Douglas on February 27, 2011 at 1:47pm

That is good advice to put your images in a file in the Legacy folder, but how you file them within that folder will depend on whether you then plan to upload them to the internet and what folders that program uses.

For example, if you are using TNG, then your files should represent the folders used there: Documents, Headstones, Histories, multimedia and Photos.

Comment by Lewis Hartswick on February 27, 2011 at 8:45am

Sarah I have a bunch of related questions. Would you please contact me direct?

I couldn't find a way to get to you direct. Lhartswick  at  earthlink dot net

 Thanks

   ...lew...

Comment by Sarah Coles on February 27, 2011 at 8:07am

What I do with photos is keep them organized under each individual in folders under each name along with any pertinent data.  Then I make copies of the photos I want to use in Legacy and put those in the pictures folder under Legacy that is located on your hard drive and in my case it's under c:\legacy\pictures.  That way the "link" won't be broken if you decide to move around your originals.  I make folders in the pictures folder of Legacy for each individual.

Comment by Bob Rowe on February 27, 2011 at 5:42am

It doesn't matter where the pictures are on your computer. When you 'add' a photo, Legacy simply creates a link to the photo in the database. If you plan to organize your photos you will have to do that before you link them to Legacy. Doing this after will break the link and you will have to go back and relink them to the new location.

Comment by Mabel Horrocks on February 26, 2011 at 4:22pm

Can photos that are already on your comp. be "transferred" into the Picture Center or Gallery or somewhere so they can be posted to the desired individual.  I have done the scanning bit but want to get to pics that are already on my comp.  ???

Comment by Jane Chapman on February 26, 2011 at 2:02pm

@Ronald and anyone else who can help

I have been having trouble for quite a long time with the internet search on Legacy - however, it applies to all sites and I just get a message "error code: file not found" whichever site I am trying to get into - as a result I have been just going direct to the website concerned and putting all the details in - a bit silly of me really as it would make sense to sort out the internet function on Legacy.  My problem is clearly a different problem to yours though but your comment prompted me to seek help myself (thanks for the push, Ronald) So ... any suggestions anyone?

Comment by Ronald Clarence Thompson on February 26, 2011 at 10:03am

Has anyone else had problems with the internet search portion of legacy.  Every time I try it using Rootsweb as my default program it returns that there is no information on this individual.  Even for people that I have personially uploaded to this site.  I know that Ancestry bought Rootsweb several years ago and they may be some colusion with the two different search sites that may be interfering woth this fuction to force people to purchase an Ancestry subscription.  Call me paranoid but there are worst things that have happened in the genealogy search sites.

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