I agree with what Paul says. Just one thing to be careful of when your active file is in dropbox. Make sure you ALWAYS close your legacy file on one (dropbox) computer before opening it on a different (dropbox) computer.
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > I must disagree with your comment about using Dropbox as only a backup > mechanism. Putting your 'active' Legacy file in there was never a problem > for me. With Dropbox, you have a local folder resident on your PC in > addition to the one in the cloud, and when using Legacy you are using the > local copy. It works just fine. > > What Legacy, and many other programs, can't handle is when the one and > only copy of the file is on some cloud server. But that isn't how Dropbox > works. > > Paul Gray > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: July-13-13 1:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error code 76 when going to geo databas > > On 2013/07/13 03:58, Thomas Ramey wrote: > > > I recently moved my data file and pics to dropbox. It is installed > > c:\dropbox\legacy and utilizes the same folder names as in the > > original c:\legacy. All seemed to work well until I went to go to a > > geo lookup. I get a runtime error 76 and then get kicked out of the > > program. Help file says to reset the temp file on the locations > > folder which I did even though it was correct as c:\legacy\temp. No > > solution. I uninstalled my geo codes and reset them back up. No > > help. They are in the c:\legacy\geo. No help. I tried changing the > > temp file to the dropbox folder. no help. I would appreciate any > > ideas. Running current build on Win I. Tom > > Are you trying to use Dropbox as a working environment? Then you're going > to have serious problems. Dropbox should only be considered as a backup > mechanism. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg (g) > > > > 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
