Hi Scott, Would your office restrictions allow you to take a USB drive to your work computer with your Legacy files on it?
Some people keep their working files on a USB drive, and backup to the computer on which they're working at the moment. In which case you could direct the backup to a Dropbox folder, so you can access the backup from either machine if you needed to. Kind Regards, Wendy Scott Hall said the following on 8/02/2012 4:18 a.m.: > My issue is that I use Legacy from two different computers - my home > desktop, which is a Mac with Windows running on a virtual drive, and a > Windows laptop which was issued by my office. To keep the file > current for use on both computers, I keep the database files on > Dropbox, and Legacy pulls from my Dropbox folder. > > The problem is that my office has restrictions on file size uploads, > and I was finding that Dropbox could not upload the .fdb file > automatically. The solution is that I need to buy my own personal > laptop, but as I'm not ready to do that yet, I've been manually > uploading the files to Dropbox. I was simply looking for the shortest > route ... uploading only the .fdb file, for example ... as I knew > Legacy would recreate the other files when the database was loaded. > > I wanted, however, not to lose my status in Legacy FamilySearch, but > wasn't sure which file controlled that -- it isn't the .fdb file. > > No matter, it seems like the best course of action is to upload all > the files Legacy creates. > > Once I buy my own laptop, the issue will go away anyway. > > Thanks, > Scott > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Richard Van Wasshnova > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > If your drop-box is maxed out you could just save the backup.zip > and backup multimedia.zip files which are smaller size. Also the > .Rc3, which can be quite large, can always be rebuilt from the fdb > so wouldn't need to be backed up if it's costing you. > > -- > Richard Van Wasshnova > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Scott Hall <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Is there somewhere I can find out what each of the files > Legacy creates is used for? I'm trying to minimize the files > kept on my Dropbox account, and which can be deleted. > > Only the .fdb file seems to matter to load the database, but > Legacy does not always delete the others: > > .fsd > .ldb > .Rc3 > .RGD > .TC > > Also, there is a status.fs file, which I assume is what keeps > track of where I'm at with FamilySearch -- is it this file > that tells Legacy FamilySearch where I left off, such that the > people I've finished sharing information for remain at 100% > and don't revert back to 33%? > > Thanks, > Scott > 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
