Yes, below seems workable. Or like I do, you could buy a small portable hard drive (they are now quite small physically but hold many GB) and carry that with you plugging it into ea of your computers as you work. You would use that as your own personal cloud, just like it were dropbox, etc. (Make sure each computer remembers the portable hard drive with the same name). Whatever you do, make sure you have a safe backup.
-----Original Message----- From: JLB [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources for pictures In regards to your photos it looked from your screenshot that you had your linked files on at least 6 different drives. You said 3 computers so I'm guessing the other 3 are external hard-drives or flash-drives. ?? I'm wondering if you have backups for any of these? Or are the files being used directly from this variety of locations with no backup? That would be a bad idea. Are all the files in these different drive and folder locations linked into your Legacy database? With 3 computers, the ones linked to Legacy need to be in a location like a cloud service that's installed on each computer, OR an external drive that you plug into each computer. What I would suggest is that you put all your genealogy folders in one location. For Legacy-linked files, will they fit into something like 2Gb free on Dropbox or 5Gb free on Google Drive? That way you can link to them all at that one location from your different computers. Once you decide where they're going to be and put them there, you can go to Options/Customize/Locations/View Current List of Multimedia Locations and "Change" each file-path to point to where you've put the files. This will save you having to re-link every one of them. --- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ <snip> 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
