Hi Keith, You may want to look at the archives as this is often discussed. (see link at the bottom of email)
Whether or not keeping your working Legacy file in Dropbox ( the .fdb and all the related files) is a good idea depends on two things. The speed of your internet access and your degree of discipline and patience. If you're not switching computers, there's no problem. The problem arises if you open the Dropbox file on another computer before: a) the latest version has fully uploaded from the other computer or b) before the latest version has fully downloaded to this computer. If you don't wait for both processes to complete before using the file, you end up with conflicted copies. If you decide to keep your family file in Dropbox, you need to tell Legacy that that is where it is. So you go to Options > Customise - 1.2 and choose the Dropbox file to be the one to open on starting Legacy. You might also want to go to Options > Customise 6.1 and make your Dropbox Legacy sub-folder the default data folder. Note that this doesn't mean you don't need Documents\Legacy Family Tree\ Your settings will still be held at ... Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\ I don't keep my working family file in Dropbox but do keep the backups I make in Dropbox and my attached media. (I don't use the Legacy backup to backup the media). If my internet connection was always fast (I get variable speed) AND I often switched computers I would probably keep my working family file in Dropbox. Cathy Keith wrote: > > I recently heard (my computer wasn't able to pick up the pictures) the > Webair on using Legacy and Dropbox. Unfortunately they didn't seem to > give a step by step way of doing that and this evoked a few questions. > (1) Geoff indicated that he puts his.fdb in the dropbox and makes a > change in the customize area: is this the common practice and what > does one change within the program? (2) When I called the Legacy > techs, the reminded me that Dropbox is a third party program and > seemed to indicated that they really like people using this way of > operating -- but for me Dropbox works so well with my laptop and > smartphone and other programs --- what is the community's experience > with using Dropbox? and finally, can someone give a somewhat > inexperienced users an easily understood step by step way of doing this? > > Thank you > > /Keith > /[email protected] 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
