On 2010/07/08 18:36, WILLARD WHEATON wrote: > I am getting too old to continue my work, and want to transfer to a > younger relative with the minimum work for her to get the system up > and running.
That comes to us all eventually. > My program and data, pictures, videos, documents, etc. amount to 35GB > of disk space, but she does not have that much available space on her > Hard Drive. > My program and data is on my C:\Program Files\Legacy 70 Deluxe\ and > \Data folder for the multimedia material. > We apparently have two options. > 1. Get a bigger C: drive for her computer, so that all my multimedia > material (which now points to the C: drive) can be simply installed > on her new C: drive. However, to do that means she has to transfer > all her current stuff to the new hard drive and I am not sure she can > easily do that. Not the best solution in my opinion. > 2. Get a new external USB hard drive, and put a new version of Legacy > on it. Transfer all my data files to it, and send it to her. However, > presently my Legacy pictures point to locations on my C: drive. When > she get's this drive, her computer won't recognize it as her C: drive > so they data won't be found. An external drive is, to my mind, a Much Better solution! > I know of no easy method of reassigning a new location for each > picture to have Legacy look somewhere else, without reinstalling each > and every picture (over 3500) which is not my idea of Fun! I thought > that if I made the external Hard Drive bootable, then maybe it would > boot as the C:drive when plugged into her machine, and the system > would work as currently devised and operating. With a new disk, you can install Legacy on the new disk or on the existing disk. Probably best to install the program on her existing disk. Try and get the system set up exactly as yours is now, with Legacy looking for files and multimedia on C: Now, copy your Legacy folder in its' entirety onto the new drive. Then transfer the drive over to the relative's machine and make sure it is recognised as D: - not that this is too critical. Start Legacy and navigate to where your data is on the D: drive and open the main file. This should be quite recognisable to you. Then, go to Options-->Customise-->Locations and change every occurrence of C: that you see to D: Lastly click on the View Current List of Multimedia Locations and then change every occurrence of C: to D: Finally, Test All Multimedia Paths to make sure that everything still works. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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
