Yvonne, Here is my understanding of Dropbox "Conflicted" files. If you have given permission to someone else to view/use your dropbox folder and both of you open the file at the same time, then the first one that closes the file "wins". That is, their file will be saved as the .fdb file and the last one will be saved as a Conflicted.fdb. In your case, if you added data and the other person did not then the conflicted file has your data that you added. Open the conflicted file in Legacy and check it to see if your new data are in it. If so, rename the conflicted file as your original name and all is well. The same would apply if you had it open on two of your own computers.
bgj -----Original Message----- From: Yvonne Morehouse [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 5:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy - Yvonne's "conflicted copy" warning I just lost a day and a half of intense data entry. When I saw how much data was lost, I ran around the ceiling, yelled and screamed for a couple of hours but it did no good. So, I'm appealing to Legacy users for more rational actions. I'm running Windows 7 and have plenty of space. I have the latest Legacy update. I checked the Legacy site for errors related to "conflicts" but didn't see an answer for my issue. Here's what's goofy. Last night, 7/23/2011 at 2:23 PM, Mozy backed up my files. The file name at issue appears as Legacy Dropbox DB 3 9 08 (Yvonne Morehouse's conflicted copy 2011-07-23). Of course, I didn't know any "conflicts" existed until noon today when Legacy stopped working as I leave my computer running all of the time. Anyway, early this morning, I opened Legacy and went to work. Legacy worked fine--as far as I knew. About noon, an individual's window refused to open. I tried a few times to open it...no go. I closed Legacy and reopened it but all of yesterday and today's data is gone. If there were other data problems I haven't found them yet. I'm going to try to restore last night's Mozy Legacy file to another folder to see what's in it, but...what does the "conflicted message warning" mean, please? Any ideas of what to do? Thanks, Yvonne 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
