To accomplish an identical re-installation of Legacy: 1. Backup your family file onto an external drive, or other location on your existing hard drive. 2. Let Windows un-install the Legacy program. 3. Use Windows Explorer to manually rename the left-over "Legacy" folder to "xLegacy" --- or --- copy all left over data and folders to a suitable backup location. 4. Re-install Legacy to the same location as last time, almost always the default location of "C:\Legacy\". 5. Copy all your saved data back to "C:\Legacy\", over-write if necessary. This includes copying your saved family file. (Yes, "copy"...do not "move" just yet.) 6. Start the Legacy program and select "File - Restore Family File". 7. My suggestion....check Options/Customize/Locations to make sure things are pointing to the correct folders where your user created data files reside. 8. After you confirm that everything is back the way it should (this might take more than just a few seconds or even a few minutes), then and only then should you actually go back and delete the old "xLegacy" folder. Remember, this has a copy of your family file in it so make sure you really did copy your family file to the real "Legacy" folder.
OK, some discussions on the above. The only thing left over after un-installing Legacy should be user created files still in the original folders. These include about 30 or more .USR files, your .FDB family database file(s), .JPG pictures, and a multitude of saved reports or gedcoms if you've created them. Note that these and other user created data files are all found in different folders (thus my sneaky little method of renaming the old Legacy to xLegacy to keep the structure intact). They all need to be but back in the same folders from which they came otherwise your new Legacy will not find them. Worst case scenario: you can always re-create your .USR settings from within your new installation of Legacy. You can always re-create saved reports and exported gedcoms, etc, etc, etc....its just takes a little time. The ONLY THINGS that you cannot re-create are your .FDB family database file(s) and .JPG pictures. But you should always have a backup of those two items residing in a safe digital location somewhere at all times anyhow. NOTE TO SHERRY OR OTHER SUPPORT -- Check my item #5 above. I don't have a test-bed system right now to check this out so I'm not sure if a virgin installation will create any .USR files before the program is run the first time, thus my statement to "overwrite if necessary". Also I'm assuming that the Legacy un-install procedure is smart enough and robust enough to clear the registry "HKLM/Software/Millennia Corporation/Legacy 7.0" keys completely as well as delete all the other non-user created files in C:\Legacy. I think I'll test this out as soon as I get my test-bed back up again. I hate programs that leave stuff behind and I've never been a big fan of Millennia choosing to avoid the User/Application Data folders as suggested/recommended by Windows API (Send counter-arguments to the null device). -----Original Message----- From: Randy Clark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multiple errors Brian, I have all my user files but they're not being applied. That's why i think they're in the wrong folder. How to tell exactly which folder or subfolder they belong in? Randy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
