what do you back up, Tim? Just your Legacy files? Kathy On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Tim Rosenlof <[email protected]> wrote:
> I will keep this short ! I am not a DropBox user. I keep my backups here > on my computer, just waiting for a hard drive failure. I use the Amazon > Cloud. Look it up. I Backup to it ! probably two times a week. > > Tim > > On 6/27/2011 9:31 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > > 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! > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > -- Kathy Meyer Technology is both blessing and curse, depending on what it's doing for you (or to you) on any particular day. 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
