I have been using Legacy for years, and although still using version 6.0, because I haven't done any serious research work since I was using that version, I thought I was very "on" to how the backups work. In my mind, there is an "on the fly" backup that puts data in C:\Legacy\Data\familytreewip.fdb (with familytreewip being the "name" of my data). Then when I exit the program, when it prompts me to back up, I also do that, and that is a zip file that I keep in my documents folder. In the last three years, while I have not been actively involved in research, we have lost three of our parents, and I have updated Legacy with all that information. Today I have discovered that the data has been going to different places (do not understand how that could have happened). I discovered it (and maybe this will help with troubleshooting) when I tried to use Legacy Charting Companion and it wasn't bringing in the death information from Legacy, just posted a couple of days ago. I have now figured out that there is a familytreewip.fdb folder on my desktop. Some of the data I have entered in the last three years is there (visible when I open Legacy from that file), and when I go to C:\Legacy\Data\familytreewip.fdb, the most recent data is NOT there (and therefore not coming in to Charting Companion). Once I open Legacy from one location or the other, it opens it back up from there the next time I open Legacy. So, now there is one "version" of Legacy that has recent death information, and then the one out on C:\Legacy has data updated two years ago. I do not know what to do, and right after the death of my father-in-law is NOT a good time for me to realize something is wrong. Mainly, I don't know how to bring it together, and I don't know how to tell where it is actually going when I exit NOW. I do periodically copy the contents of c:\Legacy\Data to an external hard drive, and I have done that fairly recently. But even if I open the Legacy program from there, and discover that the only thing I have to re-input is my father-in-law's death information, I'm so confused now about where it all goes when I exit. I guess my main confusion is why it is sometimes going to the desktop file (and why is it even there?) and not to C:\Legacy. I am so sorry to be so unclear, but can anyone help me? I'm not so concerned about the Charting Companion--that's just what helped me discover that data is not going where I thought it was, when exiting. Barbara Ford
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