I was just looking something up. In my prior program you could in fact make changes on a shared file. I haven't tried it in Legacy, hadn't actually thought of doing that.
Cheryl Rothwell On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2011/01/02 17:52, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > > I have also discovered that while you cannot open two instances of > > Legacy on the same computer you can share the database on a network > > and have the same database open on both computers. I suspect if you > > wanted to do that regularly you would need to own two copies of the > > program. > > And that is a surefire recipe for disaster! Neither copy of the program would > know that the file was open on the other machine, and so could not take into > account any changes made on the other machine. At the very least, one set of > changes to the file would be lost. > > -- > 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 > > > 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
