Hi Mike and all Your right in what you say but as the thread started out about syncing data this is steering away from the issue, by creating a separate folder on both machines to sync then you are actually doing is backing up your data and copying it to another machine, I and probably a lot of others having been doing this since!!! My understanding and correct me if I'm wrong is that syncing data is just that, the data is the same on both machines without any work! being done, the idea is that the data stays in sync so you would have to use your Legacy data folder otherwise the issue is just plain backup. Sorry if that sounds a bit longwinded.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 2 September 2011 6:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with Legacy on two computers On 2011/09/02 10:05, Ron Ferguson wrote: > You should never have Dropbox open on two machines at the same time, and I > imagine that this applies to all sync. programs. In effect this means that if > Legacy files are being stored in Dropbox then Legacy must not be open on more > than one machine. I concur entirely with this. Most people make the mistake of making their Data folder the place where DropBox expects to find files to be synched. They should be using two directories on both machines: the normal, Legacy Data folder and the DropBox landing area. You copy the FDB (and any other files) into the landing area and let DropBox do its' job of copying stuff into the 'cloud'. Then, on the second machine, DropBox will fetch stuff from the 'cloud' into that landing area, from where you copy files into your Legacy data folder. Basically: Don't take shortcuts! -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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 ______________________________________________ This email has been scanned by Netintelligence http://www.netintelligence.com/email 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
