Hello John,
Thursday, November 28, 2013, 4:17:31 PM, you wrote: > 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. Ok, understood, so I might wait around on this List to see the comments transpire for a bit before taking the plunge. > 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. Yes I'd thought of it in the past, but not worth considering perhaps just to suit Legacy and my "living in the past" thinking. > 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. Yep I see that too, and something I need to think about. I've never bothered that much about the Windows 7 structure, particularly the user files in My Documents etc, which made me stumble across: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-drive.htm So maybe that's an option too ? When I think on this, in reality, perhaps it won't matter that much as long as an adequate back-up exists, and to be safe in two remote places. In my own case I backup the data files to my Google Drive every time they change in real time, and when the computer turns off I do another backup to an external USB3 drive. It may be a huge backup to the cloud for the media files, but only once, and from then on it's incremental. > All of this is very easy with Legacy 8. Thanks John, I'll be on the look-out for future posts on this topic. Cheers Dave 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
