Doing a back up of the data files is the correct way to share your file with someone who has Legacy.
A "generic" gedcom won't scramble anything but you won't get as much data A Legacy gedcom will export everything in the Family File. Instructions are on our website for restoring backups - either on the Legacy Home tab in Legacy, click on the "Tips from the Experts" link or at the website, go to Help Center > Tips and review the articles under "Backing Up and Restoring Family Files" for instructions on how to extract the multimedia files. When restoring the Family File, it doesn't "connect" to the Multimedia backup - i.e., it doesn't know that you did a multimedia backup. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sending a family file 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
