Marilyn: You're right about the issue of some data being scrambled in the GEDCOM process. I've never tested it, but under GEDCOM Export there is an option to produce a file for Legacy. I wonder if that would give better results than a generic GEDCOM.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sending a family file Kirsten, Thanks, if all else fails I will go the GEDCOM route as you suggested. When I brought in a GEDCOM from another family tree program to begin MY Legacy database, it made quite a mess of my sources and other notes. I was hoping she could get my 'good' Legacy file just as I view and use it. I don't trust GEDCOMs to get everything moved over intact... She has some other things going the next 2 days so it'll be the end of the week before I report back. In the meantime, i am going to send a .fdb to myself and see what happens. Maybe this is a Vista thing, not operator error!! <g> Marilyn --- On Mon, 12/7/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sending a family file > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 10:49 PM > Marilyn: > > If Keith's method doesn't work for some reason, I think it > might be simpler to just send your sister a GEDCOM attached > to an e-mail. She can right click to copy the > attachment and then paste it on her Desktop. Then she > can *right* click on the GEDCOM icon on the Desktop and > select Open With > Legacy. That certainly seems > easier than what you've been going through. > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sending a family file > > > I messed up this time. I backed up my Legacy .fdb file as > advised, but it made 2 zip files: one of which was the > multimedia file. I did NOT send that to my sister yesterday > as I thought it would confuse things and it wasn't important > for her to have the photos and PDF stuff. So, when she tried > to restore the backup .zip file of my Legacy main database > into her computer, it told her to insert a second CD (! it > was an email attachment!) so I guess I should have sent her > the multimedia file as well. The restore procedure did not > work, she views an empty family file screen now. > > So today I sent her the multimedia file and she got this > message: "The zip file C:\Legacy\Data\Marilyn Posthumus > Legacy file.fdb does not contain a Legacy Family File for > Restoring so this may be a multimedia backup file. You will > have to restore multimedia files using WinZip ro a similar > zip file utility." > > So now I am stumped. I can barely figure out how to use > WinZip myself, and I sure can't tell her how to do it. Why > is it so difficult to put my Legacy database onto her PC?? > > > Marilyn 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
