You'd be surprised. I was working with a person who imported a gedcom which put his file size over the Access limit of 2 GB and his whole file was corrupted.
I believe the programmers included a warning now that lets you know when you're importing a gedcom if it will take you over the Access limitation. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Donald McRoberts <[email protected]> wrote: > The General Capacities statement really doesn't make any sense. You don't > measure file sizes in number of characters. I suspect this line is stated > incorrectly and since Access is the underlying database handler, I would > think the actual maximum filesize would be limited solely by the storage > capacity of one's hard disk. As can be seen one that same page there are > limits placed on each of the "fields" used in the database. All of them > appear to reasonably sized so we should never run into an issue relative to > field size (number of characters, this case). > > > Don McRoberts > Minden, NV > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Hall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Sharon Johnson > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity > > First, WOW! > > This page (http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Features.asp) on Legacy's home > site says: > > General Capacities > > * Individuals and Families File size to 1 billion characters (1 gigabyte) > > As you have 2 GB already, I can assume that means you don't have 1 billion > characters yet -- but it appears that is the limitation. > > Scott > > > > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Sharon Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have roughly 112,000 names in my Legacy database. I download pictures, >> census images, death certificates, etc. I am backing up 2,285,688 KB of >> memory on my backup disk. How do I find out what the maximum capacity for >> Legacy memory use is? I don't want to get to a point where I start losing >> information I am adding. >> >> >> Sharon L Johnson >> [email protected] >> Blogs: grandmasharonlee.blogspot.com >> grandmasharon2000.blogspot.com >> http://www.BinocularDeals.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 > > > > > > > > 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
