Colin, There are a couple of issues here -
First, are you putting the computer to sleep or is it automatically
going to sleep based on power management settings?
Second, is there a reason for the computer to be put to sleep or do you
just want the monitor to go blank?
Third, is your computer set up to wake up with the touch of the keyboard
or mouse (or another remote signal)?
I don't put a desktop computer to sleep - at least not the hard drive.
I let the monitors go blank. I operate my fdb files from my OneDrive
that is mapped to my computer. By leaving my internet connection live
and the hard drive awake, I don't experience any problems with leaving
Legacy running (as long as I don't attempt to access the file from
another computer). You can only access a .fdb file on one computer at a
time to make sure there is not data overwrite.
I know that the wizards at Legacy don't encourage this method, but I
find it works perfectly well for me.
John
Jacksonville, Florida
On Tuesday 11 10 2015 11:12 AM, 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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