A friend I communicate with on a mailing list has written to me asking for help:
> I need to know where to correctly store my docs, pics, information, family > trees and back ups, as my so has to come and uninstall Legacy and reinstall > it. > > He has no interest in my passion for genealogy and can't help me at all. > > Please will you help and tell me what goes where? I know that the Legacy 8 default file locations differ from those of Legacy 7 and earlier versions, but I didn't like the new defaults, and so when I installed Legacy 8 I did so in a similar fashion to Legacy 7, with the programs installed in E:\Legacy8 and the data in E:\Leg8data on my desktop computer, and in C:\Legacy8 and C:\Leg8Data on my laptop. I did this because I don't like long path names, and especially not path names with spaces in them, and I transfer my data from my desktop to my laptop by means of batch files and flash drives. This does have the draw back that I always have to configure and reset user defaults. But it also means I can't help the other user much, because I'm sure her setup is different from mine. I've told her to back up everything, and hope that when her son reinstalls Legacy she will know where to put the backed up0 stuff. One of the reasons I prefer the old Legacy file structure is that everything was in one place, so it made it simpler to back up and restore files. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected] 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
