Hi Judy, If you are in the habit of copying the Data folder to One Drive, I suggest that the last time you did this you actually moved it instead of copying it. Just copy it back from One Drive into Documents\Legacy Family Tree.
It would be a good idea to find out where the file is that you've been opening since you "lost your Data folder". As Bob says, click the big L on the top left OR if you're using a different option for the Ribbon, the System tab. Instead of copying your Data folder to One Drive, why don't you make a folder in One Drive called Legacy Backup and just backup your family files to it? Cathy Robert57P_gmail wrote: > > 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
