David, Yes and no.
One of the security and robustness features of L8 is that it can be installed in your Program Files folder. To do that, all of the internal files that Legacy manipulates had to be moved to a separate folder that windows does not require the user to be operating in Administrator mode to manipulate. The user files have been placed in a Legacy structure in your My Documents folder. You can install Legacy somewhere else but you will be giving up some program security. I do not know how Support is going to respond to problems when you are not installed as expected. Many of the files in the My Documents structure are "hard-coded" into that folder. However, windows does have a facility for moving your My Documents elsewhere. I have done this on one PC to put them on a D drive partition. I have a D drive folder where I collect all of my Family Files. I have about 50 in use at any time. I set my option 6.1 to the name of that folder so when I want to open a file, it looks there first. As I use TNG, I sort my media for each family file into folders under \media\ in the Family file folder that match where I put the media when I upload to TNG. As a result, I need to go to the My Documents folder only when trying to do testing stuff. The program is in Program files on my C drive and my data (FF & Media & gedcoms etc) are in a Legacy Family Files folder. All of this is very easy with Legacy 8. john. At 11:38 PM 11/27/2013, David Cripps wrote: >Like most Legacy users I've downloaded version 8 to take a peek and >a test drive. > >One thing that has occurred to me straight away, and it is a >question I haven't seen asked as yet. > >Can I have the install done so that the entire directory structure >exists under C:\Legacy8, data files and all ? > >I like to have everything in the one place if possible and I've been >very comfortable with it like >this on many previous versions, particularly version 7.5. > >Thanks >Dave Cripps in Tasmania > > > > > -- > David Cripps, Tasmania <[email protected]> > > > > > >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
