You cannot leave Legacy running on a network connection, you need to close Legacy. If you try a workaround, I will bet you EVENTUALLY you will damage the datafile.
Jay On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Colin Charman <[email protected]> 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. 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? > -- > > Regards, > Colin Charman > > > 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
