Thanks to Wendy's patience and help I set up my Legacy file on Dropbox and invited my cousin to save it to her computer. Now we can both view what each of us adds to the file. Each time that she hits the save button when entering data, a balloon pops up at the bottom of my screen telling me that she has added a record. The only problem is that we can't both be working on the file at the same time. But this can be worked around by communicating with each other. It certainly beats doing merges every month. Last week she had a question about how to make a correction on a parent child relationship. Since I could look at the exact file that she was working on I was able to make the correction and turn the file back to her.
Thanks for your help Wendy. Al -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 11:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to share a Legacy file? Hi Dee, That depends entirely on the recipient, and what they've got at hand, and how much you want to share with them. If they are readily online and are using Legacy, and you want to share the whole contents of your Legacy file*, put you can put your .fdb file (or a backup) into a Dropbox folder (or some other cloud storage facility) and either share the folder or a link to it with the other person. (Dropbox makes it easy to share a link to a file or folder with another person - who does not need to be a Dropbox subscriber - which gives them the ability to view and download the file, without giving them the ability to make changes to that file, which would then affect the copy on your own computer.) * You can, of course, make a copy of your original file and edit it to remove data that you don't want to share with that person, then share that edited file with them. Since the Standard edition of Legacy is free, the only impediment to sharing the .fdb file is the other person's willingness to download and install the program. If they don't use (or want to use) Legacy, then you'll need to export a GEDCOM file and send/share that in some way so they can import it into whatever program they use. If you want to also share all the photos and documents, etc, that you've linked to in your database file, you will probably want to run a full Legacy backup (including multimedia files) and share that with them in some way. If the other person doesn't use the internet, or has a slow connection or limited data allocation, you may be better off burning it all to a CD and sending that to them. I haven't covered everything here, but I'd need to know more about what the other person has at their end to be more specific. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Dee Ziegler said the following on 19/11/2013 5:36 p.m.: > What's the easier way to share a Legacy file, data only, by gedcom or > on a CD? Or is there another way, as an attachment? Should the > recipient download the standard version of Legacy first? I tried to > read the instructions (which emphasize multimedia) but am confused. > Thanks. Dee 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
