Apologies for mispelling your name, should have been Leon instead of Lean. Colin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Liddell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Files and Restore
> Thank you Lean, in that respect you have confirmed what I suspected. > > Regards, > Colin. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leon Chapman" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 3:13 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Files and Restore > > >> The only critical file is the *.fdb file -- that is your Legacy family >> database >> >> the others relate to previous reports, relationship calculations, IGI >> searches, etc. that you have performed. >> They can all be recreated, so I wouldn't worry about them. >> You can look up in the Legacy help file the meanings of most of the >> file extensions if you need to know what they are. You can also >> search the archieves for file types and probably find what each file >> is associated with. Again, they are temporary and can all be >> recreated with reports, charts, searches, etc, so I do not worry about >> any of them. >> >> Hope this helps. >> ___ >> Leon Chapman >> [email protected] >> ----- >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Colin Liddell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I have had some problems with my computer and now have doubts about the >>> current Legacy file I am working on. >>> My aim is to Restore a zip file from a time when I knew all my work was >>> up >>> to date. >>> Looking in the Legacy\Data folder I find there are considerably more >>> files >>> for my Liddell line than for others. >>> Admittedly the other lines are much smaller than my Liddell line as I >>> have >>> merged them all into the one file of Liddell but retained the originals. >>> Prior to the merge, my other lines only have two or three files and they >>> have the following extensions of fdb and TC or fdb, TC and Rc3. >>> My Liddell line currently has the following files; >>> Liddell.fdb 8,868kb Legacy Genealogy Software >>> 6/8/2012 >>> Liddell.FG 74kb FG file >>> 9/11/2010 >>> Liddell.fsd 1,078kb FSD file >>> 6/10/2010 >>> Liddell. IGI 316kb IGI file >>> 26/08/2008 >>> Liddell.Rc3.Cal 1340kb CAL file >>> 10/10/2011 >>> Liddell.Rel.Cal 208kb CAL file >>> 10/03/2010 >>> Liddell.TC 1kb TC file >>> 6/08/2012 >>> Liddell.~IGI.IGI 316kb IGI file >>> 26/08/2008 >>> Liddell~PPL.PPL 164kb PPL file >>> 5/12/2009 >>> Liddell~Rc3.Rc3 1,604kb Rc3 file >>> 12/03/2012 >>> Liddell~Rc3.Rc3.cal 1,384kb CAL file >>> 17/03/2012 >>> Liddell~RGD.RGD 376kn RGD file >>> 10/09/2011 >>> >>> I would like to know; >>> (a) Why the Liddell line has more files than the others, ie. 7 files as >>> against 2 or 3? >>> (b) If I do a Restore from a Zip file, which of the above files do I >>> remove >>> from the data folder prior to the Restore, or do I remove all? I would >>> put >>> them on a flash drive so they are still accessible in necessary. >>> (c) Why do the last five files have the tild and repeated extension. >>> >>> I look forward to any help or suggestions from the very knowledgeable >>> folks >>> on this List. >>> >>> Colin. >>> >>> >>> 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 > > > 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). 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