No. The Color Schemes folder is for Color Schemes with the file extension .LCS.
If this folder shows up when you save a tag list or report options, that's because you saved them there once upon a time. The default for saving any settings or lists is the c:\Legacy folder. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM, CE WOOD <[email protected]> wrote: > So Color Schemes is an appropriate folder for saved tag lists and customized > report options, and who knows what else? What have they to do with color? > > Since those are created by the user, it would, to many non-programmers, seem > logical that those would be saved in as USR files. Why ever would one think > they might be saved in the Color Schemes folder? They have nothing to do > with the color schemes! > > I discovered that when I had to reinstall Legacy and found that the arduous > work creating and saving Tag Lists and Report Options was lost because they > were not saved as USR files. Sleuthing led to the fact that, as the OP > discovered, they are saved in the Color Schemes subfolder. Now, when > backing up, I make sure to copy not only all my IST files, but also my Color > Schemes subfolder. That way, my work is not lost. > > It would be most helpful if this was made public, just as the necessity of > backing up one's USR files has been. It would be even more helpful if > Legacy would include in Help a section devoted to what files and subfolders > are important to back up. The ifo about backing up USR files came from this > list, not Legacy. Since programmers do not think the way users do, they > should give us that info. Problems do happen; people do have to reinstall. > It would be so simple to tell us where the personalized lists are stored, > and maybe even include them as check boxes for backups. > > CE > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Saving report options >> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 07:13:51 -0600 >> >> On 8/31/2012 6:49 PM, CE WOOD wrote: >> > Legacy does save several files there, such as Tag lists. Really >> > strange, and a total pain because you should really back up those files >> > too in case of any problem with Legacy. Yet nowhere does Legacy tell >> > you that! You would think all such files, Tag Lists, Report Options, >> > etc., would be saved in a USR file. But no - they're in the Color >> > Scheme folder! Be sure, if you are compulsive about saving your USR >> > files in case of a problem, that you save the Color Schemes folder too. >> > >> > CE >> >> >> I have 'No' clue what you are talking about. All my .usr files and .rs0 >> are in my Legacy folder, as well as the files mentioned above in their >> appropriate locations. >> >> -- >> Tim Rosenlof >> Utah, USA >> Swedish Research 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
