Thanks John - just happy to know they are the correct ones. I very rarely play with anything nowadays unless I am 100% sure I know what I am doing - learnt my lesson after deleting an m.bat file at the beginning of computer life many moons ago! Marion
On 1 December 2013 17:42, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Marion, > > They have not changed. > > The ones installed for the base ones are good to go. The -alt files you > create will be dated as you create them. Just never, never change the base > ones. All changes in the alt. > > john. > > At 03:35 AM 12/1/2013, 2marion wimps wrote: > > Small query - should the date of the files be updated to 2013? I have > downloaded V8 and also the Geo codes etc. but when I look under the > [MyDocuments]\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\Misc it is showing a 2012 date > for Country Codes, a 2005 date for County codes. a 2008 date for Extra > Codes and a 2008 date for State Codes. > > Marion > > > On 1 December 2013 10:34, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > You just have to know where to put them. ;-) They work fine. I have > been using them every day. > > They go in [MyDocuments]\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\Misc > > Have you installed the GeoDB successfully? > > OK? > > john. > > At 07:23 PM 11/30/2013, John Makepeace wrote: > >A *little bit* of a learning curve for me, but already LOVING Legacy > >Family Tree version 8 so far.... > > > >However, I'm having a wee bit of trouble getting Legacy to recognize > >my modified GeoExtraCodes.txt and GeoStateCodes.txt files.  I prefer > >the words "County" or "Co." automatically added to location names as > >in "Peekskill, Westchester *County*, New York," and I also prefer > >the "old style" state abbreviations such as "Calif." for California > >vs. the postal code, "CA." As in previous versions, I copied the > >respective original Legacy text files, appended the filenames with > >"-Alt" as in "GeoExtraCodes-Alt.txt," and made the necessary > >modifications in the -Alt files. It worked fine in version 7.x, but > >version 8 doesn't seem to be recognizing the changes.  Anything I'm > >doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated. > > > >I'm using Windows 7 Premium and Legacy 8.0 full version. > > > >Kind Regards, > > > >John M. > >Alexandria, Va., U.S.A. > > > > > 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<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog ( > http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<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 > 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
