Gail If you always want to open the same Legacy file by default, create a desktop shortcut pointing to the "Your Legacy file.fdb" file you want to open (it will open by association). Drop the shortcut onto the task bar to pin it there. Alan
-----Original Message----- From: Gail in MN [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 30 October 2011 12:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] open file Thanks. I appreciate knowing that I'm not the only one who saw this. I will wait for an update and until then will use my task bar icon. Gail On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Brian/Support <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on other replies in this thread I have tested. If you right > click on the Legacy icon in the Windows 7 task bar to choose a file to > open the Options > Customize setting will revert to Open the last > used family file. I will be submitting a problem report to our > tracking system to have the programmers look at this and fix it. > > Gail, as a work around, just left click on the Legacy Icon in the task > bar to open Legacy and the option to always open this file will stay set. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > Thanks. > > On 29/10/2011 12:52 PM, Gail in MN wrote: >> I've used Legacy for many years now and have no complaints. That >> being said, for the past couple of weeks, I can't seem to get the >> family tree file to open that I have set up in options. I have >> several files that I work with and right now, no matter which file I >> have chosen as the "always open this file ", the last one that I was >> working on is the one that opens. I go into option and of course, >> "open last used family file" is ticked. >> >> I am using Windows 7 on a laptop and my Legacy 7.5 is current. When >> I use the startup menu, I can, of course, choose the file I want to >> open. I have a quick launch button in my tool bar at the bottom and >> that is where I usually start from. It's not a serious issue, and I >> can easily open the file I want, but it's bugging me because it >> worked right before. >> >> And yes, I click "save" after I choose the "always open this file" >> and browse to find the correct file. >> >> Any clues? Like I said, not a big problem in the grand scheme of >> things, just an irritation... >> Gail in MN > > > 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 > > > 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 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
