On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:40:27 +1000, "jmglover" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi everyone, > I wonder if this is the right place to ask for advice re the above. >I usually open my Legacy 7 family file from a saved file on my flash drive. >Yesterday when I went to do just that, I got a box with these words > >Error opening database >When I answered 'yes' to the query if I wanted to try again, up came the >words >'could not lock file'. > >I've been unable to open the family file from the flash drive since. >I did look in Legacy Help, and went to uncheck the 'read-only' properites, >but it wsn't checked at all. I'm not sure where to go from here. > >Any help will be much appreciated. All my fdb. files on the flash drive are >refusing to open. > >I do have the files on CD and backed-up. > >I haven't opened the flash-drive files since I updated to Legacy 7.0.0.83 . >Would that have anything to do with the problem? > >Many thanks for any help you can give me, Have you tried copying them to your PC's hard drive and opening from there? It doesn't solve your problem but it should tell you if there's anything wrong with the .fdb. -- Dennis Kowallek http://ltools.kowallekfamily.com/ *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
