Hi Alexa, I'm not sure what you are doing, but Legacy doesn't automatically update. You have to choose to update.
Also there has been no automatic upgrade to version 8 or a conversion in 7 that forces you to upgrade to 8. Perhaps you loaded an earlier version of Legacy 7 and when you tried to open a file, misread the message saying the file couldn't be opened in it to mean that it could now only be opened in Legacy 8. It was meaning that it needed a later version of Legacy 7. You can still download Legacy 7.5 from the Legacy Webpages ( and you can still download even earlier versions). You just have to take a breath and read the download page and notice that on the Right there is a link to earlier versions. Here is the direct link: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion7.asp However, after a short while I think you'll come to like Legacy 8. But let me address some of your other issues and how you can go back if you want to. There haven't been many changes to the ribbons since Legacy 8 was released. The only one I'm aware of is that Research Guidance has moved from a tab onto the Tools Ribbon. Perhaps you have discovered accidently that you can have the Ribbon minimised or maximised. Or perhaps you have moved from the My Toolbar Ribbon which is like the Toolbar in 7.5 to one of the other Ribbons which have taken the place of the Menus in 7.5 (think of a Ribbon as a visual menu that is horizontal rather than vertical) and not realised that there are a number of different Ribbons in Legacy 8. Now that you have opened your file in Legacy 8, unless you still have an older copy or a backup you can only get back to Legacy 7.5 by using a Gedcom. However, if you still have that copy on your external hard drive you can install the latest version of 7.5 and open it. Note you can have Legacy 7.5 and Legacy 8 on your computer at the same time. This is easiest if you use the defaults for both. They install in quite different places. Legacy 7.5 installs to C:\Legacy unless you choose another drive or folder. Legacy 8 installs to C:\Program Files\ and should not be installed anywhere else though you can choose to install it elsewhere. Regardless of where you install Legacy 8, the User settings will be at ...\yourusername\(My)Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData and this folder cannot be moved elsewhere. It's best to keep Legacy 7 and Legacy 8 Data Files in different folders. Legacy 7.5 is no longer being updated so you are stuck with the bugs in it. There are no more bugs in Legacy 8 than there are still in Legacy 7 though because they're different you may come across different ones. Cathy At 02:50 PM 17/03/2014, you wrote: >I'd like to know how to prevent automatic updates/upgrades to Legacy >8. I've only had the program for about two weeks, am still learning >it, and tonight, I attempted to add more people and discovered there >has been an update that has made dramatic changes to the interface (ribbon?)! > >I want don't want automatic updates. How can I stop them? > >I was using Legacy 7.5 which I like so much better, but somewhere >along the line it updated (or upgraded) so much that I couldn't >transfer my old file to a new computer. My old computer broke before >I could make a new gedcom, and my new computer couldn't read my file >that I had stored on an external hard drive because even though I >have the program disk for Legacy 7.5, the updates/upgrades are no >longer available online, and the file was no longer compatible with Legacy 7.5. > >I had to buy Legacy 8 to read my file. Now the darn thing is already >updating/upgrading without my permission and has made dramatic >changes to the program. > >Please Help!!! > >Thanks. > >Alexa >[] > >Genealogical research since 1974 > >Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts... 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
