It is possible that the last time you opened your normal family file, that you (by accident or in experimentation) changed one of the defaults or opened some other family file. Legacy can be set up to load the last loaded file, or a specific file, or to prompt.
In ver 8, the "previously opened" files do not show up in the FILE menu. Instead they show up when you click on the blue circle with the big L in it in the top left corner. (If you have customized your layout this may be something other than a blue circle.) Have you searched your hard drive for all files with an extension of "fdb"? If you find nothing (ouch), have you checked your recycle bin? The backup prompt (for me) only comes up if I have changed data. If I just look, I do not get prompted. You can change backup prompts under Options/Customize, click the button under 12.5, select the first tab. You may want to look at the other tabs while you are in there. Default storage locations is located under Options/Customize/Locations. But, of course, you may have saved your data file manually someplace else by doing a File/SaveAs and manually specifying the path, so this info might or might not help you. Thus the reason you may want to search your entire hard drive(s) for files with an extension of *.fdb You can change what shows up when you first open Legacy by going into Options/Customize/General Settings (1.2) As far as restoring from OneDrive - I don't use OneDrive but I would suspect it has a utility to browse your harddrive and copy the selected file(s) to wherever you specify. Hope these items help. Good luck, Bob On 07/20/2015 14:21, Judy Weber wrote: > > I have lost the data folder in my Legacy 8 program. How do I get it > back? I have found all the family files which were in the folder by > accessing OneDrive in the cloud. How can I return them in the data > folder to the Legacy 8 program? The family file I was working on does > not give the prompt to back up on the hard drive as it used to. And > without the data folder in Legacy I can’t copy the folder containing > the family files to One Drive. I don’t know what I did to cause this, > but would be grateful for advice on how to get the folder containing > my family files back in the Legacy program as it used to be. > > Judy W. > > > > 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 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
