Some of those files are used to support the database tool. One you will see when a file is open is *.ldb. This is a locking file to tell Legacy that it is open and if another file tries to open the file, it can only be opened for reading. For instance, if you have your file in a Dropbox and the Dropbox is shared with a family member who also has Legacy, only one of you can have Family File open at one time for editing.
Others of the extra files store your Research Guidance data, relationship data, potential problems data, etc. These are handled this way for performance, I suppose.
OK?
john.
At 03:15 PM 12/8/2013, Elizabeth Hatchell wrote:
Yes, those are exactly the same as mine so I think it's OK then, although I'm surprised that the dates are so old in some cases. Obviously settings I made in 7.5 have automatically updated to version 8. I wonder what they were!
Thanks for your help.
On 8 December 2013 19:26, Cheryl Rothwell <[email protected] > wrote:
- My dropbox folder only has the most recent files because I save backups somewhere else. There's an *.fdb, a *.tc, a *ppl.ppl and a *rgd.rgd. The .fdb is the data file. I assume the others are settings and such.
- On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Elizabeth Hatchell < [email protected]> wrote:
- I have just tried to do that by changing the setting as you suggest and renaming the open Legacy file Hatchell Master Dec2013 but I now find I have 8 copies of that file, all with slightly different suffixes and lots of different dates going back to 22/02/2012. The first one is obviously the file I've just closed but the others are FG files, NC files, TC files etc. Without listing them all, one is labelled Hatchell Master Dec2013~Rc3.Rc3.
- Does this sound OK to you?
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