This might help: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00889
or search the archives as this has been discussed before. Just using NAS throws up lots of messages. Cathy Jay Wilpolt wrote: > > 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] <mailto:[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
