Dennis, It doesn't actually work like that.
Consider that you use the Legacy defaults, then instead of having it just in the Data folder the path would be C:\Legacy\Data\DropBox\fergy.fdb, on a second machine it might be stored in My Documents with the path being C:\~My Documents\Legacy\Data\DropBox\fergy.fdb. On changing the fdb file in the first computer, the file is copied to the DropBox server in the sky, and on opening Legacy on the second PC it will copy the file to that DropBox, overwriting the contents. They state that they keep back-up copies of all versions. It is correct to say that if Legacy on both PCs are open at the same time then confusion reigns! However, instead of just overwriting one or the other it will create a separate file named "fergy (conflicting copy +date).fdb" (or something like that) and one has to sort out which is the latest/correct version. To allow the Access file to be altered at the same time with two different people on different machines is a definite no, no. Ron Ferguson http;//www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multimedia/pictures storage On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:44:48 -0600, "Roger Grua" <[email protected]> wrote: >Could you comment on multimedia storage in light of the recent Dropbox >thread? I am strongly considering Dropbox to sych my desktop and laptop. >It sounds very easy, but what about the multimedia links?? I would think that, unless the 2 PCs were identically configured (same OS, same username, same folder structure), you could run into problems. For example, in the case of 2 XP PCs with different usernames, if you stored your Legacy data and multimedia under ... C:\My Documents\My Dropbox\Legacy ... you might end up with the .fdb multimedia links on PC#1 actually pointing to ... C:\Documents and Settings\<username#1>\My Documents\My Dropbox\Legacy\Pictures ... when in reality on PC#2 the correct path should be ... C:\Documents and Settings\<username#2>\My Documents\My Dropbox\Legacy\Pictures Same is true in the case of different OS's. For example, XP would put things in the "Documents and Settings" folder, and thus the multimedia links in the .fdb would point to ... C:\Documents and Settings\... ... while on a Win7 PC the correct path should be ... C:\users\... *** The point being that Legacy doesn't store "C:\My Documents\..." in the database. It expands it to the full pathname, which might be different on 2 different PCs if you aren't careful. *** The whole idea of live editing of an Access database that resides in a Dropbox folder sounds scary to me. I would certainly make sure I backed up my data frequently, not counting on Dropbox to handle it silently in the background. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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
