Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread Lavern Hall
Hi Ron, Thanks for your input. I reviewed the process again and followed the directions (which I've typed out and posted next to both computers!) from you and Mike; worked out fine. Thanks again, Lavern Hall BTW Ron, your emails to LUG always show up in my spam folder. Don't know why, have

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread Ward Walker
At least you are receiving them. I don’t get them at all, even in the junk mail folder. From: Lavern Hall Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:11 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hi Ron, ... Thanks again, Lavern Hall BTW Ron, your

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread MikeFry
On 17 Oct 2014 17:43, Ward Walker wrote: At least you are receiving them. I don’t get them at all, even in the junk mail folder. There are a lot of mail servers out there that reckon yahoo.com is a spam machine. -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread R G Strong-genes
The only ones that you would have to unzip would be if you do the media backup which would be a different zip file. From: Ron Taylor Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:27 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Mike will probably answer

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread singhals
MikeFry wrote: On 17 Oct 2014 17:43, Ward Walker wrote: At least you are receiving them. I don’t get them at all, even in the junk mail folder. There are a lot of mail servers out there that reckon yahoo.com is a spam machine. There are, she said bitterly, a lot of mail servers out

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-17 Thread Stu and Priscilla Fanning
: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox At least you are receiving them. I don’t get them at all, even in the junk mail folder. From: Lavern Hall Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:11 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hi Ron

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Ron Taylor
computer at a time. Hope this helps. Bob *From:*Lavern Hall [mailto:lavernh...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:02 AM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hello all, I hope you will be able to help me with this problem. I

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Austen
there working/live files on Dropbox, I hope they keep a very up to date copy on their own computer. Bob From: Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 7:22 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Sherry/Support
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox It is not advisable to have your live file in Dropbox or Google Drive or any of the other cloud based storage systems. What you can do reliably is to place the zipped backup files in the cloud drive and then restore the file as needed

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread grayscot2
From: Sherry/Support [she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, 16 October, 2014 11:02 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox My suggestion would be to back up to the hard drive or your external backup drive when you're finished

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Lavern Hall
:02 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox My suggestion would be to back up to the hard drive or your external backup drive when you're finished working in the file. I've not had any problems with working in Dropbox but then I'm the only

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread MikeFry
On 16 Oct 2014 22:29, Lavern Hall wrote: My laptop (8.1) has my working file on it. I opened Legacy by clicking on the Legacy icon, then I put in some dummy changes, then saved/backed up the file to Dropbox. Next, I went to my computer (win XP). I clicked on the small Dropbox icon and it

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
Lavern Hall wrote: Thank you all for your comments. Sorry for the delay in responding. I have learned quite a bit about syncing and find that my concept of what syncing is was incorrect so what I was trying to do would never work. This was my first attempt at making two computers sync and I

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread MikeFry
On 16 Oct 2014 23:56, Elizabeth Cunningham wrote: I wish you would use a larger type. On my machine it comes out almost too small to read - I can with a magnifying glass. What are you using to read the messages with. Try typing Ctrl-+ -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) Legacy User Group

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Lavern Hall
​Thanks Mike, I tried Legacy Restore on XP computer and that also worked also. :-) One other question​ please: on the toolbar, I clicked on File to see what family file name appeared as my last accessed family file. Usually it is C:\Legacy\Data\lavernhallfamily.fdb Now it has

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-16 Thread Ron Taylor
Mike will probably answer this also. The last message from Lavern said Now it has C:DocumentsandSettings\user\ MyDocuments\Dropbox\lavernhallfamily\ 2014-10-16 3:26 33PM\lavernhallfamily.fdb This means that the fdb file is being accessed from inside the zip backup file which is in the Dropbox.

[LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-15 Thread Lavern Hall
Hello all, I hope you will be able to help me with this problem. I have a new laptop with window 8.1 and I have my old computer operating on windows XP. I have the latest version if Legacy 7.5 installed on both, but I cannot get them to sync. Here's what happens: I make entries on my laptop

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-15 Thread Bob Austen
, October 15, 2014 9:02 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hello all, I hope you will be able to help me with this problem. I have a new laptop with window 8.1 and I have my old computer operating on windows XP. I have the latest version

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox

2014-10-15 Thread Cathy Pinner
] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 9:02 AM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* [LegacyUG] Legacy not syncing in Dropbox Hello all, I hope you will be able to help me with this problem. I have a new laptop with window 8.1 and I have my old computer operating on windows XP