It is normal to save your working file on your computer's internal hard drive.
It looks like you have saving your file to 'Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data'. Is this file on your C:/ drive? Is the C:/ drive big enough to handle your file with lots of room to spare? If you are using your thumb drive for your working file is that the file that Legacy is opening/using? If you are opening your file from your thumb drive it is likely that the file is being saved there too so, of course, the file on C: drive would not be updated. Legacy automatically saves the data as it is being entered (posted) (actually, when you leave the edit screen). And it saves it to the file that you have designated which, I assume, is C:/ Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data/filename.fdb You can check that by looking to the very top of your open family tree file. When you add/change any information in your tree it is saved each time as you leave the edit screen. I do not understand when you say that 'these changes are not uniformly saving to the C: drive'. It comes back to which file are you opening and working from - the one on your thumb drive or the one on C: drive. I don't think it is good practice to try to work from your backup devices, that is, your thumb drive and/or your WD storage drive - use those for backup. I back up my file to a thumb drive, a separate internal drive, the cloud and an external WD storage drive but my work is always done on my main drive in my computer. This way my latest file is always on my computer and my backup copies are on the other devices. Again, trying to work from your backup copy on a thumb drive would be confusing and may be risky. To backup I simply copy the file to my thumb drive and my second internal drive. None of the files are compressed. There is no need to compress the files, however that happens if you have Legacy backup your file when you exit. Legacy does that to keep your working copy and your backup copies separate. Error 70 and Error 75 have different meanings on different devices. Here it could be that your thumb drive is full. With only 456 names your file is going to be quite small. Are you overwriting the file each time or adding a new one? Hope this helps. Bob From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cindy Custer Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2021 4:22 PM To: Legacy Family Tree Support; Legacy Users Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Saving Problems Importance: High I have been posting data info to my Legacy database file (Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data) multiple times and these changes are NOT uniformly saving to the C: drive. Because I have not been able to do compressed Backups for the past year,[Legacy Support worked with me for a period of nearly 2 weeks trying to resolve that problem - but unsuccessfully] I have been saving uncompressed backup copies to a thumb drive and to a Western Digital 1TB storage drive instead. When I re-open Legacy 9 to continue work, I open the file from the thumb drive so that I have the previous updated position. Today, when I attempted to save my copy to the thumb and Western Digital storage drives, I am receiving Error 70 for the thumb drive and Error 75 for the Western Digital storage drive - and they are no longer saving either. Now my problem is severe - I can live without saving compressed backups, but if I cannot save uncompressed files how can I continue to update my database. The database I am using today only has 456 individuals in it. Is this a problem only for me or is anyone else having problems saving backup copies in other drives? _____ <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> Image removed by sender. Avast logo This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus>
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