Ward, That's helpful to know. I am going to work on trying to update my new laptop this weekend. (I keep one at home in Longmont, and the other at my place in Denver.) D On Friday, May 23, 2014 9:11 AM, Ward Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
(Interesting -- I see two replies but not the original post.) Denise, if you want to sometimes use one computer and sometimes the other, and you are worried about your family file getting out of sync, there is another option. It is like using the cloud/Dropbox, except that it does not depend on a connection to the Internet. You can use a USB thumb drive as the location of your active family file, and carry it between computers. Just make sure that your backups don't go to the same drive, but rather to the hard drive on either computer. Copies of multimedia can be on the USB drive, as well. Ward -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 4:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy software and database on two laptops On 23/05/2014 01:37, Denise wrote: > I use Legacy software (7.4) and have my genealogy database on my Sony > Vaio laptop. I just bought a second laptop (Toshiba) with Microsoft 8.0 > Operating System. I want to transfer a copy of my genealogy database to > it, so the database resides on both my laptops. What is the easiest way > to try to do this? I assume I need to purchase Legacy software for my > second computer first. Provided both copies are for your personal use and not both in use at the same time I think you are ok with just one copy. The easiest way to copy your family file over would be to backup to an external drive or cloud storage and restore the file on the other machine. Bearing in mind that you will want to keep both files concurrent, your best bet would be to store your working file in something like Dropbox so that whichever one you work on, the other gets updated. -- Jenny M Benson 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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
