Don't you also have to make sure that the USB drive is mounted with the same
drive letter on each machine. One machine with a CD/DVD drive might mount the
USB with as drive E: (Assuming CD/DVD is drive D:) while on another machine
with 2 CD/DVD drives would mount the USB as drive F: (Assuming one CD/DVD is D:
and the second is E:)
You can assign a permanent drive assignment in Computer Management -- Storage
-- Disk Management
Right click the USB drive
Click on Change Drive Letter and Paths...
Then assign a drive letter.
I like to assign a U: which is way down the list to avoid other drives changing
their drive assignments such as card readers and other external hard drives.
You must make this explicit assignment on both computers.
Thanks
-hhk
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Walker [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Working between two computers
I can't resist chipping in on this (again -- a recurring topic).
I like not being dependent on having Internet access when I take my laptop
somewhere. Thus, I use the USB thumb drive approach.
If you use the USB drive as a backup, then you have to create the backup and
explicitly restore it each time you change computers. It is simpler to use
the USB drive as your primary location for your data. On each computer,
Legacy remembers on startup to look there first for the last database that
was opened. You can model the folders on the USB drive after those in the
default C:\Legacy\ folder, i.e.: Charts, Data, Docs, Pictures, and any other
folders that contain files linked by Legacy to your .fdb database(s). Then
all you have to remember is to bring your USB drive to the other computer.
When each Legacy session ends and you are prompted to do a backup, ensure
that the backup location is on the computer's hard drive, not on the USB
drive (and hopefully never needed). When you create new multimedia files,
remember to copy them to the USB drive and let Legacy find them there, not
on your hard drive.
Your Legacy preference settings (.usr files) remain on each host computer in
C:\Legacy and do not transfer with the USB drive.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fisher" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 5:29 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Working between two computers
Hi Brian
No you can link any folder on your computer ,you don't have to move
them. You sign into Live Sync on the web with you Windows Live ID then
"create a personal fold" on the site linked to the folder on that
computer. You then go to your other computer sign in with your Windows
Live ID and add that computer . Live Sync then syncs the data.
Mike
[email protected] wrote:
> Michael Fisher,
> Thanks for the suggestion,I have been reading about Live sync but
> havent found out if I need to install Legacy in the Live sync folder.
> Can you help further?
> Thanks again,
> Brian
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