Given the state of increasing storage capacity, why not save all three. More
importantly however, I would save GEDCOM files. They are simply plain text
files and that has been readable since the early days of computing, and will
be for the foreseeable future. The media they are stored on is more likely
to require migration before those file types will be unreadable.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <cathyv...@cox.net>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] File types
I can save several document files as rich text (.rtf), Word document
(.doc), or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files. In thinking years ahead when
someone may want to open the file and all software programs have gone
through several updates, can anyone suggest which file type would more
likely be able to be opened?
I have paper copies but I'm trying to make the best long-term decision
about the saved file type.
Thank you.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
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