Hi, I have my Legacy files stored on a NAS (Network Attached Storage)
device. This offers me the safety of having my data on duplicated disk
drives ("RAID") and my NAS is replicating my data to a smaller NAS in
another building sp I have an off-site backup.
The process is fairly simple - the shared folder on the NAS is mapped to
a drive on the PC (in my case D:) and Legacy opens the file as D:\My
documents\Legacy\xxxxx.fdb. The default folder location in Legacys
options is set to D:\My documents\Legacy, and the default location for
pictures/sound etc are also pointing to the NAS via the D: drive
This works fine until I sleep and re-awaken the PC running Legacy. When
it wakes up and I try to open a person in the Legacy program, I get a
"disk or network error". It seems that Legacy has held the database
file open when the PC went into "sleep" mode but the network share
wasn't maintained so when it re-awakens from sleep it has lost track of
where the family tree file is.
Worse still, if I start Legacy and try to open my family file in the
normal open dialogue, it shows my file but if I try to open it, it fails
- remember that this uses my default location to point to the D:\.....
folder.
But, I can overcome this if I open the file by navigating to My
Computer, select the D: drive, then the My Documents folder, then the
Legacy folder, then the xxxxx.fdb file - ie get Legacy to work out the
file location from scratch.
If I look at my D: drive using windows explorer, it opens up OK as soon
as the PC wakes up, so the computer has no difficulty locating the
network share on the NAS right away.
Is anyone else suffering with this problem of sleep/re-awakening not
resolving links to a network device?
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Regards,
Regards,
Colin Charman
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