Thank you very much. I did as you suggested and it worked out well. I appreciate your kind help.
Jane Sarles On 4/5/2014 1:01 PM, R G Strong-genes wrote: > Jane, > When you open your family file, what name shows at the top of your screen in > the windows title bar? It should say "Legacy - [name of family file]". If it > says "Legacy Another Format 1-19-14 2014" then that is why all your backups > say that. To fix it go to the File tab and click on Rename File and rename > your family file to what you want. Now on that same tab click on Backup File > and when the Backup window opens click on the Options button on the bottom > of the screen and there will be two boxes you can check, first one is to > append the date to the end of the backup file name and the other box is to > Append the time to the end of the file name. You can have any combination of > boxes checked. If all of your backups have the same name then I would assume > that both of those boxes are unchecked. After that you should be good to go. > If you have backed up the media then those also probably are saved as the > name above with a "-media" at the end of the file name. If you wish to keep > your old backups you could rename the part of the old file name and change > that part to the new file name. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jane Sarles > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 12:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Bad job of installing > > I keep thinking I installed V. 8 badly, and I keep finding problems that > make me think so. > > Now I find that my backups all are saved under the title, "Legacy > Another Format 1-19-14 2014" no matter what date I save them. I have > backups saved on March 23 that still say the January date. And I can't > tell one from the other - there are several in my Legacy Backup folder > all of the same name. And in the Backup Options box I tried to change > the name of the backup to "Main Family File" . but it still says the > "another format" t > > This is a grand mess and I am sorry I ever left V. 7. > > How can I get started straightening this out. I have no idea how much > data I may have lost. I am just not very good with doing the tecnical > stuff. > > Pretty disgusted. > > Jane Sarles 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
