Steve, You can keep your data and media for Legacy 8 wherever you like so long as you tell Legacy where it is at Options - Customise 6.1 and 6.2. However, if you delete or move Documents\Legacy Family Tree\ it will be recreated EVERY time you start Legacy and it is missing - recreated with default settings. This folder has within it a folder called _AppData which holds your settings.
So Legacy 8 should be installed to Program Files like other programs. The program file folders hold default settings etc and shouldn't be edited. I keep my data in the default data folder for Legacy 8 since I have to have the folder anyway. Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data I keep my media in Dropbox. Dropbox\Legacy Media\<heaps of subfolders> Cathy Steve Hayes wrote: > > 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. > 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
