Alan, Let us first be clear about Legacy construction. What is called the Family file has (as you said) the extension .fdb, this is an Access file and is saved by Legacy on the fly. On leaving Legacy you are asked if you wish to backup Legacy (this only happens if you have made changes) and it is this which creates the .zip file, i.e. it is the backup and not the saved files.
To get your backup into Legacy you need to use File>Restore family file. I use Dropbox on three PCs and as you know I need to create a Dropbox folder in each PC – use the Dropbox help process. When I first started I put the latest .fdb version in one, and it then opened in the others. As you rightly, and importantly said, only have one open at any one time. Whilst some users believe, and I tend to agree, using the .fdb files would be a bit dodgy when used by different people, there would be no problem in using the backup, as I have described, and putting it into each Legacy program as above. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Alan Wakenhut Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 7:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Sharing Legacy in Dropbox I can normally figure out computer problems but I am still stumped on sharing Legacy using Dropbox. I have no problem sharing files with Dropbox, as I do this frequently with my clients. My problem is in working on Legacy with a cousin. We want to be able to work on the same file, without having to do frequent mergers. I realize that we will not be able to work on Legacy at the same time. I can open the original file from Dropbox, as it is a .fdb file which Legacy will open. But when I save the file back to Dropbox it is saved as a .zip file. Using Windows 7, I can’t figure out how to open this file. How should I save the Legacy file in Dropbox? Is it possible to save the file as a .fdb instead of a .zip file? Thank you, Al 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
