Mike, I agree with your solution as to the best solution for Willard but I would comment on your statement about copying to the external drive on D. I know that you are not being dogmatic in the name given to this drive, and given the tone of Willard's post, I suspect he will understand that also, however, others may not.
On my PC the D drive is my disk drive so my external drive is drive E, and on this I have both my Legacy program and files. I only have the program on the E drive as I have another version of Legacy on the C drive, and it helps stop me getting muddled when they are on different drives, so I agree with your suggestion to have the program on C and the data on an external drive, be it D, E or ..... X!! Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Mike Fry wrote: > 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. 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
