Hi y'all, I think there has been a lot of good advice on this very important question. First, does your present version work properly for you. Does it do all you want it to do? Second, do you want more, another feature or three? Third, is the update version really ready? Or is it having issues?
I'm still using version 5, since it does all I wish of it (except fully work in Linux OS). I've read about the new features, but they don't raise my heart beat. Maybe this will change, maybe not. But I do see that some of you delve much more deeply and you do need a much more comprehensive version than I do. Personally I like speed and updating to a newer version will not give me greater speed. In fact the newer the version, the slower it is. I would like to see Legacy make improvements on responsiveness. BTW I think M$ support for Windoz XP stops in March 1914. JimS On 12/26/2013 11:34 PM, John B. Lisle wrote: > Cheryl, Orinda, et al, > > First, COPY COPY COPY was just for emphasis. If you convert your only > 7.4 family file, you cannot go back. > > FS gets bug fixes with many new L8 builds. But Millennia is not > sending out new builds of L7.5 so that version is not getting those updates. > > I have been using FS heavily with L8 build 367 all week without any > problems. I may be a tester, but I get the same software all other > users get. That does not mean that I have used every function of LFS. > But I have connected folks to my FF, exchanged data both ways, done > merges, marked possible dups as non-matches, etc. > > It could be that the problem for them is not with Legacy, but with > their connection to FS. > > john. > > At 09:25 PM 12/26/2013, singhals wrote: >> A good point, John. Still, as often as they're changing FS, >> that may not be true by the time one manages to d/l and >> install the update. Then too, on another list, there seems >> to be something non-functional about FS this week in that >> nearly everyone (across a wide spectrum of browsers, >> computers, expertise, and locales) has had some problem with >> it. >> >> FWIW >> >> Cheryl >> >> John B. Lisle wrote: >>> Denise, Helen, et al, >>> >>> One of the challenges with using 7.4,0.45 - or any version >>> of 7.4 - is that the version of FamilySearch that comes with >>> that does not support the current FamilySearch. It only >>> works, if it works at all, with the version of FamilySearch >>> that was recently made read only and will shortly be >>> discontinued. >>> >>> If you wish to use Family Search Tree, you need to be on the >>> latest version of Legacy 7.5. >>> >>> Further, since Legacy 8 was introduced, Legacy 7.5 was >>> likely frozen, including the FamilySearch add on. The >>> updates to that will likely only be available with Legacy 8. >>> >>> The best way to look at L8 and see if you might wish to move >>> there is to download the free version and install it. >>> >>> Then COPY COPY COPY you family file to where ever you want >>> to use and only open the copy with L8. If you do that you >>> can still keep working with L7.obsolete. >>> >>> Leon's list of new features should be enough to take a peak. >>> But L8 is from a quality point of view a much more reliable >>> tool than earlier version. It is different and some of those >>> differences will need to get used to. >>> >>> john. >>> >>> At 03:47 PM 12/26/2013, Denise wrote: >>>> I, too, have Vewsion 7.4.0.45 and am disinclined to >>>> upgrade. My version works just fine, and seeing all the >>>> emails about various 'bugs' gives me pause. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, December 26, 2013 9:15 AM, >>>> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Many of these bugs that were supposedly fixed in version >>>> 7.5.0.278 I've >>>> never come across. There are many features in the program >>>> that apply to >>>> the USA only and if the bug is there, I'd never find them >>>> and they >>>> wouldn't bother me. And the improvements in 7.5 weren't >>>> improvements to >>>> me, I just plain didn't want them. >>>> >>>>> At this >>>>> point, there are just too many things that are not >>>> debugged or missing >>>>> in comparison with version 7.5. >>>> And too many useless-to-me bells and whistles features. >>>> >>>> Good luck with your database. >>>> >>>> Helen >>>> 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
