I think assigning a permanent drive letter is only needed on a machine where the default USB drive letter might vary from time to time -- i.e.: if another device is sometimes present and takes up a letter before the USB letter. There is otherwise nothing wrong with the USB being drive E: on one machine and drive F: on the other, as long as it is consistent on each machine. The Legacy settings for the default locations of files are on the computer, not with the Legacy data on the USB drive, as far as I know.
Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kahan, Heinz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Working between two computers 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 =================================================== Heinz H. Kahan Systems Manager - Molecular Microbiology Washington University School of Medicine 660 S. Euclid Ave. - Campus Box 8230 (postal) 4949 Parkview Place - Campus Box 8230 (delivery) St. Louis, MO 63110 voice: 314/362-2816 fax: 314/362-1232 email: [email protected] -----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 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
