Have you tried waking up your NAS system before you touch Legacy? Maybe
just create a simple BAT file that does a DIR of D: and then exits. Put
a shortcut for that BAT file on your desktop and just click on a
shortcut - it should only take a couple seconds to run (depending on how
long it takes that NAS system to wake up).
Granted, that is not a "solution", but it might be a workable work-around.
I, myself, have had issues with systems going asleep while some programs
are running - I gave that up years ago. You may want to consider
adjusting your sleep times/options (just have the drive spin down and a
screen power off, but don't actually let it go to sleep for a long
time), and then get in the habit of exiting Legacy (and other programs)
if you will be away from it for that "long time". Again, not a
solution, but it might be another functional work-around.
Bob
On 11/10/2015 11:12, Colin Charman wrote:
> 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.Â
> 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.Â
>
> 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?
> --
> Regards,
>
> Regards,
> Colin Charman
>
>
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