On 7/9/2010 6:04 AM, David wrote: > I had a disastrous update with V 7.4. Now just what the base > problem is well I am not into throwing brick bats here.
The base problem is that you do not appear to completely understand the situation. If you have been updating all your Legacy family files with each update of Legacy, all your information is still there and accessible. > What I would like is some advice for when I found that all > my family files and dozens of backups made over many years > were all just inaccessible I was horrified. More than 20 > years of research as put into these files were just an entry > in windows explorer. All those older Legacy backups are still accessible with the appropriate version of Legacy, still available from Millenium. They are, however, redundant and unnecessary if you have continued to make backups in the new version. All the information is still there. Now a lot of my base info is in > spreadsheets which go back to 1980 something. But those > sheets and their programming have all advanced on with the > years. I never expect to be totally locked out of any > spreadsheet, but the Legacy database appears to be only > accessible by their program, and to make it worse, only by > the version that the particular file was created in, except > that you MAY be lucky that a later version will upgrade and > convert your old file. The newer versions will update older databases. The backup files are just zipped files you can unzip with the appropriate program. (Winzip, 7-Zip, Ultimate Zip, etc.) The main legacy file that contains all your information has an extension of .fdb and is a Microsoft Access Database file. Just make a copy of that file and give it a .mdb extension and you can open it with Access (or any program capable of opening or viewing access files, such as Open Office or MDBPlus) and view all your info with that. It is not lost or inaccessible. > So what I would like is for some of you bright ones to > advise me as to how NOT to have all my eggs in one basket. > In bygone years I have used a number of databases, but when > I was faced with a pile of backups all very carefully placed > both on local and remote locations, were just useless as the > base program just would not run, I was near sick for some > days. I never want that again, never!. > So please advise me, should I migrate to another database > system, duplicate in another format, or just what?. > All this is enough to suggest to me to curtail my work, > print as is, and leave it there. > Dave > Whether you move to another database (genealogy) program or not is entirely your choice, however I would hesitate to move to another program which may have its own (possibly unsolvable) problems from one that has proven so reliable for so long. You don't really have any problem with Legacy other than possibly not fully understanding the way it works "under the hood." Rest assured that your data is NOT lost. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm 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
