Jenny, Thank you for this information. I recently switched to a new computer so this is really helpful to me. Fortunately, I still have my old computer, and all of its files.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How can this happen? Because I was about to spend about a week away from home and wanted to work on my family file while away - I keep a copy of Legacy on the computer I use when here - I used Dropbox to pass Legacy from home to here. I copied the entire Legacy folder into Dropbox (in one "pass", not folder by folder) and having updated Legacy here to the latest version, I copied the Legacy folder from Dropbox over it. I was somewhat surprised - to put it mildly! - when I tried to open my family file and it wasn't there! I went back to the Dropbox folder containing the Legacy folder and sure enough, nearly all the files relating to my current family file were absent! The folder actually *should* contain the files relating to 5 different "savings" of my family file, as I have saved it and started with a renamed copy every few months. 3 of the 5 databases are complete, but of the most recent 2 (dated 18 Jan and 07 May this year) only the .NC and .TC files are there. As I was working on the 07 May file on Saturday night, closed it down normally and copied the Legacy folder on Sunday morning there is no reason to suppose the full version is happily residing on my home computer, but I won't half be relieved when I go home and satisfy myself that it is! I'm totally baffled, though, how files could just vanish like that. Although when I upgraded from an old computer to a new one a few weeks ago, I also found that several files, sometimes whole sub-folders had somehow failed to copy across. The moral of that story is *hang on to your old computer until you are QUITE sure you have retrieved everything*! Luckily, I have! -- Jenny M Benson 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
