I'm not running into another part of the house to check something when I have a computer in this room too. :-) But I am just checking something, NOT changing anything. If Legacy isn't set up to allow that then I certainly won't push that envelope. It only happens because there doesn't seem to be a way to save my wonderful screen layout on the main computer so I just don't close it.
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cheryl, > > Unless one knows exactly what one is doing, has a very clear and logical > memory, and thoroughly understands the workings of a DB then, as Mike says, > to have two copies of the same DB open at the same time is a recipe for > disaster. Definitely not recommended! > > Some of the Legacy add-ons can use this technique, but you will find that if > you open the add-on first, and then Legacy, a warning is given that the > functionality of Legacy is restricted, in other words the DB goes into > self-protect mode. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cheryl Rothwell > Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Save Screen Layout > > 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
