While I'm not Brian in Support, I had just privately emailed him to let him know how changing the AutoSave within the OneDrive app back to the usual "ThisPC" worked. When I ran Legacy again, it first looks in the Users Documents folder and not finding a license key or the existence of the Legacy Family Tree folder assumed it was a new program installation and asked me all the typical start-up questions. Once I create a short new family file and exited the program, Windows Explorer showed that everything looked just the way we've all expected for several years now. In other words, it ignored the OneDrive Documents path and used the regular Documents path.
By the way, on this new Windows 10 install, both Documents paths were created. But the regular one was totally empty. Obviously because of the OS's installation of the OneDrive app and service, it also created the OneDrive Documents path and a registry entry points to that location. Changing the AutoSave back to ThisPC merely changes the registry entry so that any program such as Legacy will look to the regular Documents location. If any user has installed other software with the OneDrive app pointing its AutoSave location to OneDrive instead of ThisPC, then I would caution them to expect some turbulence if they make that AutoSave change. In my case, Nero and Cyberlink write their own folders to the Documents location just like Legacy. My grandson who was running some Steam games on my computer found out that once Steam creates their folders in the OneDrive path, changing the AutoSave back to ThisPC causes certain games to crash....probably requiring them to be re-install. But these are games and we all know that game applications seldom follow any standard procedures. B -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gray Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 11:03 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs Brian Is Windows now just creating the 'One Drive' documents folder, or is still also creating the 'user profile' documents folder? When I got a new PC almost exactly one year ago with Windows 10 preinstalled, it had BOTH the the C:\Users\username\ Documents folder as well as the One Drive Documents folder. I am wondering if Windows is really doing anything new with respect to the folders it CREATES, or whether it's just what they designate as the "default" Documents folder? Paul Gray -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: May 27, 2016 10:12 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs That's all good information to know and pretty much what I've been trying to say. Legacy users can continue to save their family file and media file to wherever they want. Even with the change that Microsoft has made to brand new clean installs (not Upgrades) of Windows 10, the addition of the extra folder named "OneDrive" in their default Windows Users/Documents folder, actually changes nothing. As you previously pointed out, when Legacy is installed to such systems, it merely creates the "Legacy Family Tree" folder wherever Windows told it was the Users Documents folder----which now has the OneDrive name in the path. It makes no difference to Legacy and I've since found out it hasn't made any difference to other programs that I've installed. And as several other users have pointed out, just because their default Users Documents folder has OneDrive in the path, they do NOT have to actually use OneDrive. Nothing is automatically uploaded to the cloud unless the user chooses to run the OneDrive app. The only real change is that Legacy Support personnel now have to realize that there are two different file paths that users may have for the files that Legacy installs into the Users Documents folder. This includes the USR files, Color Schemes, Dictionaries, etc. It's all business as usual. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian/Support Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 5:50 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs Here is an extract from a Microsoft Support Article https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-i n-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7 on how to set your own defaults if you do not want to have all your files saved to OneDrive by default: "Use the OneDrive app settings to change where your files are saved by default. In the Notifications area at the bottom of your Windows screen, right-click the OneDrive icon and click Settings. You might have to click Show hidden icons to find OneDrive. <Graphic displayed here that I did not copy, it showed the OneDrive Icon in the user's notifications area> In the Settings box, on the Auto save tab, under Documents and Pictures, click the list at Documents or Pictures and pick the default save location you want. This PC only - When you create a file, the Documents or Pictures folder under This PC is the first-choice location offered to save it. The file is not saved to OneDrive unless you do so separately, and it is available only on the PC you used to save it. OneDrive - When you create a file, the first location offered is within the Documents or Pictures folder under OneDrive. Because these folders sync to your PC, files you save there are available on your PC, even when it's not connected to the Internet. And you can use any device with an Internet connection to access your files. Note: No matter which default setting you choose, you still can select the save location you want each time you save a file. When you click Save for new files or Save As for existing files, click OneDrive or This PC and then pick a folder to save your file to." So yes the change may be done by Windows 10 but the users do still control their own destiny. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
