Hi Bill & everyone, Ward said:
> 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. This is controllable via the Options - go to Options > Customise (or Ctrl-Z) then in the General tab see "Starting Family File". You can select to have the last used file, or be prompted for the starting family file, or to always open a file that you specify. (I choose to always open my main research file.) Then you can control where a file opens to when you open it - this is the Starting Family option immediately below the Starting Family File option. You can choose to start at the "preferred" family or the 'last viewed" family. (I choose to display the Preferred startup family.) To identify your "preferred" family, again go to Options in the menu at the top of your Legacy window, this time select Set Preferred Startup Family. > 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. Everyone will have their own preferences, and what is right for you is your own choice based on your own particular set of knowledge, skills and needs. It's good to hear what others do, to consider options other than what you do yourself - sometimes one of them will strike you as being better than what you're doing now. So keep an open mind as you read all these suggestions. :-) My preference at the moment is that I keep my main working files on my laptop, which is the computer I use every day. My backup files are kept in a folder under Dropbox, so I can access them from any online computer should I find a need for it, and they're automatically copied to the desk computer when it's running. I rarely use my desk computer for genealogy right now, but when I do it is simple to restore the latest backup to access my most up-to-date data. Normally I backup only the data, but occasionally I'll run a multimedia backup as well (I'm not big on attaching documents to my Legacy file, but do attach portraits when I can). I also do full backups of my laptop periodically (not as often as I should!) onto an external hard drive. Several years ago, I used my desk computer as my main repository for my research work, and everything else I did on a computer. Then, I'd copy a fresh set of the data & associated files to the laptop when I was heading out somewhere with the intention of doing some research, so I had it all at my fingertips. But, I wouldn't update the files on the laptop (except to close items on the To Do list as I worked); instead I recorded my findings elsewhere (spreadsheet, word processor, etc as the need arose), and then enter the data into the desk computer when I was at home again. Seems cumbersome now, but it worked for me at the time. Today, I'd probably photograph documents at the repository, and work on those later - that wasn't an option for me back when I was transcribing information into the laptop for later reference. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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
