If you are saving a zip file you are saving a backup of your family file. If you are not working on your family file in the local dropbox folder on your computer (which some users do) all you need do when you finish working is to copy your fdb file to the dropbox folder on your computer. Dropbox will then sync that copy with other computers which log in with your account. If you want to share with a cousin I think you need to have the file in your public folder and share the link to that file with the cousin.
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 04/11/2013 2:58 PM, Alan Wakenhut wrote: > 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
