I pay Dropbox for extra storage space, and keep everything of value to me in the Dropbox folder. This includes all my Legacy data files, and their backups (as I have space to spare, currently using 92.6GB of the 1.02TB allocated to me).
Before I paid Dropbox for the extra space, I used to keep the Legacy backups in Dropbox, and if I needed to open my Legacy file on another computer (other than my main one) I would restore the latest backup. Legacy remembers where you put your backups last, and will put the next one there unless you tell it to put it somewhere else, so once you've set that you don't have to remember each time. There could be a small problem with the media, switching between two computers this way, because the path name stored in Legacy would have to be exactly the same on both machines to work without a hitch. This means the Windows user-name has to be the same, and the Dropbox folder located in the same place on both machines, for it to work seamlessly. But if they're not, it should not take long to point Legacy on the second machine to where your media are kept. I see this as a minor distraction, if it were something I had to deal to maybe twice a year when I switched locations, assuming there's only one computer used at each end. The other point to remember is to only open your Legacy file in one place at a time. If you had two computers in the same house with the same Dropbox account, it might be tempting to open the same Legacy file on both at the same time - or close it on one, then open it on the other before Dropbox has had time to synchronise. It won't like that, so a little patience may be needed. You can still access your files if the internet goes down, as Dropbox puts a copy on the computer's hard drive. But if you delete a file on one, it will disappear from any other computer that has the same folder on it when it synchronises there. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy Norman Weston wrote on 2/04/2015 23:32: > After several years away from family history I have returned to it to > see if there is anything new to discover. > After a few computer hard drive deaths over the years, I am so glad > that I had backed up both my family file and media to my dropbox > account. I live part of the year in one country and part in another > and I have my Legacy Family Tree on several computers. At present if I > make some changes on one computer I would need to backup my file plus > its media and restore them on the other to keep it current. If I fail > to do this each and every time I make changes, I could overwrite > something I had changed previously! So my question is, has anyone ever > mentioned or thought about any sort of Legacy auto backup facility to > cloud in order that nothing is ever lost? Apologies if this has been > discussed before, I am not sure how to search the past topics. 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
