On 5/6/2011 2:34 PM, Howlanddavisii wrote: > Listers: > > My hard drive crashed last week. I always backed up my family file > when exiting the file and I had an external hard drive that saved my > files once a week. My question is where would the backup file be? > What drive would it be in and what file name if I did not change > anything from the default. > > Howland Davis > > > > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp There should be two folders with the naming structure of "family file name" year month day time.zip and "family file name" year month day time-multimedia.zip on your external drive. I think in Legacy the default back location in on the C:\ drive if you did not point Legacy to you external drive you have lost your backups when you hard drive failed.
Hope this helps, Joshua Crump [email protected] MCTS 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

