You have a backup of your Legacy data file on an external hard drive, and you want it to ultimately be a useable Legacy data file on your laptop?
You should be able to plug the external hard drive into the laptop, open Legacy, and then RESTORE that backup (File > Restore Family File...). Along the way you'll tell Legacy where to store the data file that results, and that can be on the laptop's hard drive. I do wonder, though, where your data file (the one you made the backup from) is now? Did you loose it somehow, or are you trying to set up your new laptop with everything you want on it? If the former (that it has been lost), then yes you're fortunate that there is a backup to get you working again - go ahead and restore the backup to where you want it. :-) If the latter (that you're setting up a new laptop and the data file is elsewhere and still accessible) then you could copy the data file (and its associated files with the same filename and various extensions) from where-ever it is now to the new laptop. Use Dropbox or some other cloud storage if you've got that set up, or copy them to the external hard drive and then attach that to the laptop and copy over to there. I'd rather do that than restore the backup, if I had the choice. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Michelle F said the following on 31/12/2013 8:07 a.m.: > > Will it work to just attach the external drive to the new laptop and > have Legacy 7.5 pick it up? Or do I need a GEDCOM created via another > PC and opened via email on the new laptop? (Not a problem I ever > expected to face. At least there -is- a backup.) > > Thanks very much. > > > Michelle 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
