Thanks Bruce. Tom
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Bruce Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > 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
