But Sherry, your reply doesn't answer the question or my comment regarding characters vs. bytes.
You seem to be implying that the limit is 2GB which may very well be the limit allowed by Access. If this is the case then the webpage that states 1 billion characters (1GB) needs to be corrected to accurately reflect the actual limitations. I'm not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to make the website specifications for Legacy more accurate so others aren't confused in the future. Don McRoberts Minden, NV -----Original Message----- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Donald McRoberts; Sharon Johnson Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity 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 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
