Willard, I think Mike will be in bed now (which is where I should also be) but I'll have a go. Not knowing exactly what you have in your Data Folder, makes it difficult, However, I would copy the whole of the Data Folder to the external drive.
When looking for a family file (xxxx.fdb) to load into Legacy the program will automatically look in C:\Legacy\Data, which is both (a) the default and (b) where you have your stuff at the moment. At the top of the box where you select which family file you want is a box containing the location, just use the down arrow and tree to go to your new (copy) Data Folder on the external drive, and select the family file from there. There is no immediate need to bother with the customise locations function, although it may be an advantage later. Actually I think it changed mine automatically, but that may be because I have the program on that drive. In any event to make the external drive the default for the program one only needs to change the first box to (say) E:\Legacy\Data. Selecting the media files in their new place is not such a hard job either - when I've had a sleep! 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 Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ronfergy ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: WILLARD WHEATON To: [email protected] Sent: 09 July 2010 02:01 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state. Thank you Ron, Mike, et al for your quick response. The answer I was looking for was the Options, Customize, Locations portal. I wasn't aware of it. So I will have to see what will be involved in changing the pointers. I will look at it tomorrow. Yes, I realize that many computers use D: and sometimes E: if it has more than one CD/DVD drives. So a new HD may end up being anywhere between F: and Z: It doesn't matter to me, as long as I can tell Legacy to go there. Until I get acquainted with the customizing process, I can't say if it will be a viable solution. My concern is that in an attempt to "organize" my data, I set up a whole series of folders, and sub-folders, inside of sub-folders. Organized by country, state, county, family name, and individual names. In the individual's folder I put all media and document files pretaining to them. All these folders are within the DATA folder of Legacy. Each filename in any folder begins with the year to which the information applies. I would cry elephant tears if I had to change individual file pointers in the multimedia file. I am hoping that tomorrow I will find that I can do a replacement of all data files having a "C:\" at the front end of the filename, to a "E:\" Stay tuned, I will let you know more. Thanks again Willard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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
