You will find many hints and tips on using Legacy on this page: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Tips.asp There is an article there that I suggest you read. It tells you how to use backup and restore to move a copy of your data file and multimedia from one computer to another. Scroll down to the links on moving your family file.
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 13/04/2012 6:23 PM, MJ SA wrote: > Hi, thank you both for the suggestions, *.fdb did not work on the > other computer. Maybe I can get a quick lesson on how to do this > again, nothing is more scary than worrying about losing all your > genealogy work. > > Please tell me if this is the correct way to save my family tree. > > For backup, I want to make sure it backs up onto my thumb drive. Than > I also want to export it to a gedcom, so I have that also for back up > and to put the updates on the other compuer. > > To get my family file onto my floppy to put on another computer, I > would click export to gedcom? Than open Legacy on the other computer > and than open the gedcom and save the family tree on the hard drive to > that computer? > > Something strange in the air lately, I have done this so many times, > and today it is just not working. 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
