Thanks John just to reassure you that I've had plenty of practice at this so I understand the issues even if I cant always fix them.
I deliberately sleep it and its set to sleep automatically if I leave it unattended too long. In fact I use hybrid sleep and my PC is on a UPS so sleep is a low-risk solution and gives me instant power-up and low energy usage. Yes, its set to wake on a mouse click etc. You're quite right - I could just leave the system running and let the monitors power down. I have an SSD so there are no disks spinning except in the NAS, so the power usage would be relatively low. If the power goes off, the UPS would shut the PC and NAS down gracefully after a few minutes so that would work OK. The alternative I was considering was to house the legacy files on my SSD (better performance) and use syncing to ensure the NAS is updated. Windows7 has "offline files always available" capability but I can't get that to work at the moment so I might just set up a scheduled sync from the SSD to the NAS once or twice a day. I suspect you can access an .fdb file from two computers successfully so long as you avoid updating the same records - thats fairly easy if there is only one human involved! I do this routinely using Legacy and Access2000 queries on the same PC. Generally I avoid using Access to update the file but Ive done this (carefully) from time to time with success and no corruption - with Legacy open at the same time. I think I may have opened it with Legacy on two PCs thru file sharing too but its been a while since I tried that. Thanks for your suggestion - I might give the "no sleep" idea a try. Colin & Christine Charman Phone: 0118-989 0760 Email: *[email protected]* or *[email protected]* or *[email protected]* OBJ Morris: *www.obj.org.uk* On 12/11/2015 8:52 PM, Hannigan Family Research wrote: > 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. 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, >> >> 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 > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 2016.0.7227 / Virus Database: 4460/10987 - Release Date: 11/12/15 > 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). 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