Hi John, Thanks again for additional info. You replied:
"The program is by default installed in Program Files (X86). Sorry if I caused any confusion. The Program data that Legacy changes during its operation is in My Documents. You can move - and I recommend it - the location of your family files and media to another folder anywhere on your computer." Interesting. Where do you suggest putting the location of family and media files? From the beginning I was sure if I liked having those files stored under the Documents folder. With all previous versions, I rather liked having these files stored under the Legacy folder. There could be reasons for not doing that, I don't know. If so, would you recommend just moving the entire Legacy Family Tree folder and associated subfolders out of Documents and under the root directory? Glenn Woodman On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:16 PM, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Glenn, > > You are quite welcome. > > 1/ I am of the school that you should keep L7.5 around for a while. Not > because I think L8 is broken, but you may find that you may need it to > confirm/verify some bugs and, in case there are fies in that folder you > decide later you need to move over. > > One person I have been helping offline needed to go back and look at a > backup to confirm that what they thought was a bug in L8 was actually a bug > in their data that they made long before they knew L8 was going to be > released. > > 2/ The program is by default installed in Program Files (X86). Sorry if I > caused any confusion. The Program data that Legacy changes during its > operation is in My Documents. You can move - and I recommend it - the > location of your family files and media to another folder anywhere on your > computer. > > ok? > > john. > > > > At 09:20 PM 12/3/2013, Glenn Woodman wrote: > > John, > > Thank you for the info. I now see that Legacy 8 is indeed installed in > Program Files. I'm curious about one thing. I have a SSD where all > application files are stored by default on the C: drive, and data files are > stored on a regular drive labeled D:. On the C: drive is Legacy 7.5 in > its own folder in the root directory. I am running Win7. > > > Questions: > > 1) Should I / is it safe to uninstall this using Windows Add/Remove? > > 2) I have two Program Files folders on my C: drive. One named Program > Files, the other named Program Files (x86). Legacy 8 is installed in the > latter. Is this the way it is supposed to be? The folder Legacy Family > Tree is indeed located under My Documents, which resided on my D: drive. > > Glenn Woodman > > > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: > Glenn, > One of the changes in Legacy 8 is to install by default into Program Files > to comply with Microsoft standards. Prior to L8, the install directory > included files that Legacy edited during program execution. Now, those > files show up in the user's My Documents folder. > The Avast problem does not block the proper installation. It just causes - > in Win 7, at least - messages that seem that there is a problem. I wrote a > long message on this earlier. > john. > > > At 10:31 AM 12/1/2013, Glenn Woodman wrote: > > Bill Boswell, > Regarding conflicts with AV software and installing Legacy (as well as > other downloaded programs), I share the experiences of you and others using > Norton. Before Norton, the freebie AV software I used had a check box > for disabling protection. That allowed the target software to "come > through the door" with no interruption. After successful installation, > I just re-enabled protection. Perhaps those who use Avast might explore > if that program has a similar feature. > My question to you is about your comment that you "don't let the > installation put it [Legacy] in the Program Files." I am curious about > this, as it is my understanding that by default Legacy installs in the root > directory. Does it want to install in Program Files in your case?  > I've never understood why, and don't know the pros or cons of installing > it in one place or the other. I've never questioned it, as I figured > the developers had their particular reasons for setting it up that way. > But I am somewhat curious. > > Glenn Woodman > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM, William Boswell <[email protected]> > wrote: > Same here. I've used Norton AV products for years (currently Norton > 360) and had no problems with Legacy 7.5 or with the new 8.0. No > problems with installation or use.  I stay away from the freebie AV > programs. Symantec who produces the Norton programs is a reputable > company.  When I installed Legacy 8 Deluxe this morning, I didn't let > the installation put it in Program Files. I put it in the root > directory of my C drive like I did with Legacy 7.5. I also have Windows > 7's User Account Control turned off which can interfere with a lot of > programs. >  Bill Boswell  > From: Mary LeClerc [ mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Installation - GLBF797.tmp >  I've used Norton's since day one on the internet and never have any > problems downloading reputable programs like Legacy. Just downloaded > Legacy 8 and again it went smooth as butter.  > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM, John B. Lisle <[email protected]> wrote: Gene, > Are you using the Free Avast AV or the Avast Internet Security? I believe > the problem is with the Internet Security version only. Some of the > secondary Windows issues are only appearing with Win 7 and above. john. > > > > 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). 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