Linda, thanks for your reply. For clairty's sake for those who are reading this thread, the problem that Paul and I are discussing is only a problem when the dropbox shared shoftware has a requirement that it have identical file paths. Legacy itself does not require that, except to the extent that you have the links to pictures, documents, etc. Those links, with their specific file paths, are embedded into the Legacy relational database. In the case of links, as Paul stated, the paths have to be identical, and they will not be, if dropbox is in the user area (normally c:/users/[computer name]\dropbox) and not on the root directory (normally that would be c:\dropbox). In all other situations (at least to the extent of my knowledge), dropbox will work just fine if it is installed in the user area of Windows. What I have said above applies to PC's with Windows 7 operating systems. It may also apply to Windows XP operating systems, but I cannot recall if XP uses the same "user" logic as Windows 7. I am not a Mac user, but I would bet that dropbox probably installs on the Mac at the root drive. If it does, then no issues there. Keith
________________________________ From: Linda Hauley <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Dropbox and Legacy Thank you, both, for your discussion on Dropbox. I had used it previously for a group seminar where participants were all over North America and the weeks’ lesson outlines were posted there with responses from the group. It worked great! I didn’t think of using this tool for accessing Legacy data files, etc. between my own computers and recently bought an external 500 GB Hard Drive just to do this same thing. The only drawback is the limitation of 2 GB being free – above that you have to pay a monthly fee. Linda J. Hauley Recycled Memories Family History Research GOONS Canada East Regional Representative VODDEN One Name Study Member #4335 From:Keith Allred [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 20, 2012 1:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Dropbox and Legacy Paul, you are exactly right. I had not thought of the problem that installing dropbox into the users area on the computer would cause. Since the embedded Legacy links are exact paths, as you describe, having dropbox in the user area will cause the links to fail at least as long as the two computers have different user names. Making two computers have the same name on a home network may be impossible, but at a minimum would create real problems. So, the your suggested resolution would do the trick. The April 21 Legacy webinar Dropbox for Genealogists by Thomas MacEntee does not address this problem. In fact, he suggests using the default location for the dropbox install. There may be another solution, which I am exploring, using the dropbox addon sync software that he discusses briefly in the webinar. The thing that I have to confirm is that the dropbox addon sync software sync's both ways. If it does, you can leave your ftb and picture files whereever you want. Again, thanks to all for your replies. Keith From:Paul Gray <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:43 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Dropbox and Legacy Hi Keith, There are really two issues here. 1) Relinking all of your pictures to your new location in Dropbox. I have no experience with this, but as others have said as long as they were in one folder, and are now just in another folder (the Dropbox folder) there seems to be a way for Legacy to 'find and relink' all photos from one folder to another. Let us assume that you do this on your desktop. 2) However, the key to those links working between your desktop and laptop is the location of the Dropbox folder on both the desktop and laptop. It must be 'outside' of the user profile area (i.e. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Video). The best place for it is right up in the C:\ directory e.g. C:\Dropbox. This is not the default installation of Dropbox. If you do not select something different, Dropbox installs in My Documents on each computer. The problem with putting Dropbox in My Documents is that the exact path to it is usually different on two computers. For sure, if one computer is XP and other Win 7, the path is different. If both are Win 7, the path will be different if the user names are different on the two machines. Why is this a problem? Because Legacy will have links to the EXACT path on the desktop, and if that exact path isn't on the laptop, it's "file not found" If you put Dropbox right up in the C:\ directory on both computers, the paths on both systems will be the same. If your Dropbox installation is in My Documents, you will want to correct it first (on both systems) before you do any relinking. I must admit I don't know how to do this. It may be as simple as using Windows explorer to move the Dropbox folder. I have C:\Dropbox on my two computers. On both systems within that, I have a Legacy Data folder (FDB and FSD files are in there) and a Genealogy Pics and Genealogy Docs folders. Links work flawlessly on both. Hope this helps, Paul Gray From: Keith Allred [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March-19-12 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Dropbox and Legacy I have just downloaded dropbox and installed it on my desktop and laptop computers. I have been using Legacy for some time and have many pictures that are located in my pictures folder in legacy. I have created numerous links which link pictures to various individuals in legacy. Each link creates a link with a given path designation (in my case, Legacy/pictures/xxxx). When I created my dropbox folder, I dragged and dropped the Legacy/pictures folder to my dropbox. So far, OK. I then used dropbox on my laptop to download the pictures file in that is in my dropbox folder on my desktop. But, how do I am I now able to use all of the links that I have previously created? If, on the laptop, I go in Legacy to Options, Customize, Locations and then change the location of my pictures folder to my dropbox on my laptop, all of the links are useless. (I know that if I had started out using my dropbox folder as my folder to which my pictures were linked, all would be fine. But, I now have thousands of links and do not want to reinvent the world.) Or do I have each time to download what is in my dropbox to the Legacy/pictures folder to be able to use the links. A simple way to solve the problem would be to have the dropbox folder and the Legacy/pictures folder sinc each time a change is made to the Legacy/Pictures folder. What is the solution to my problem? 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