The reason that Kathy says that you will get plenty of answers is that this topic comes up frequently. You can find discussions in the LUG archives.
Legacy defaults to opening the last used family file. That is why you see the sample family file. All you have to do is open your file, wherever it is stored. My favorite solution to your question is to use a flash drive as the _primary_ location of the family file and (a copy of) the associated multimedia files. When you travel, take the flash drive with you to use with the laptop. When at home, plug the flash drive into your desktop. When you do backups, direct them to your current hard drive, not back to the flash drive. Certainly the Dropbox method is popular and valid. Note that the flash drive method allows you to work even when not connected to the Internet while traveling. Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: Kathy Meyer To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Desk top & lap top You will get plenty of answers but the most popular answer will be to use Dropbox. I will send you a link in a separate, private email and you can read about it on their site. It's free and a very, very popular program. Basically, you download it onto your desktop and you download it onto your laptop. There will be a folder titled 'My Dropbox' within your 'My Documents' folder. You store your files within that and you can create all the folders and subfolders that you want, the same way you would in any other folder on your computer. Anything stored in your 'My Dropbox' folder is automatically stored online (great backup!) and even better, when your laptop is connected to the internet, all of the files added or changed on your desktop will automatically be loaded onto your laptop's hard drive under it's 'My Dropbox' folder. It works both ways, if you update or add something on the laptop, it will be changed on your desktop. But they do have to be connected to the internet. I keep my 'working file' for Legacy in my Dropbox. That way, it automatically opens it on either computer from there and any change made on one is automatically saved to the other (again, AFTER that internet connection is made). The one caveat is that you cannot work on the same file at the same time from the two computers which I would never do anyway. If that sounds like it will work for you, it's a very simple process. The automatic backups to the other computers with another safely in the 'cloud' eases your mind about possible computer crashes too. As for the sample file, you just need to open your file and subsequent visits to Legacy should open the last file that you opened, which would be your working file. If you're genealogy is divided in multiple files, you will simply open whichever file you want to work on, using the 'file - open family file ' choices. You will find this group very helpful. You should watch the tutorials online as well; they are very helpful. And if you have the resources, go ahead and purchase the additional tutorials because they are full of great information that will show you all the 'extras' that make Legacy such a useful program. Also, watch Geoff Rasmussen's webinars on adding a death certificate and on adding a marriage certificate. You can glean a lot of information from those as well that you would never think of on your own. It's amazing the time saving options that are built into Legacy. Happy Memorial Day! Kathy On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 2:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Several related questions please. 1. Have Legacy open and running on desktop. Desire to use laptop as I travel. Have Legacy open on laptop but I only get Asa Brown's family. How to remove Asa? 2. After above, is the best way to transfer data from desktop to laptop via flash drive, home network or what? Thanks, Bill SAquier 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
