Ah yes, I probably should have mentioned that sometimes just rebooting the computer tends to clean out a lot of the cobwebs and problems that a person might be experiencing.
And while we are at it, everyone running Windows 10 needs to know that the RESTART option found as one of the Power selection menu options is NOT a complete reboot. Instead, it merely accomplishes a FastStart option so that it makes it look like Windows is starting up very fast. Normally it tends to clear out most problems but sometimes a real reboot needs to be effected. This can only be done by either shutting down the computer (or pulling the power plug) and then restarting, or by pressing a RESET button found on the front of the computer case usually next to the Power button. In your case, it appears that you shut down the power and then later restarted the computer. Hopefully everything is OK with your Legacy files but you may wish to read over some of Legacy’s Help files covering the subject of “where is your family file”. Go here: <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Frequent.asp> Brian in CA From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:21 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family File Thanks Brian.... I won’t or can’t (more likely) explain myself. All seems to have corrected itself after shutting down computer for awhile. Something may have happened a few days ago when google wouldn’t allow the deleting of the temporary files. But how would I know. I am such a novice when I read the questions and answers in this group. Add windows to the list as well. I have external backups so can eventually get back on in an emergency. The temp. file seems to have disappeared. There seems to be more then one gremlin at work at my house... and they all bear a resemblance to me. Have patience! Gail From: Brian Lightfoot <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:14 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Family File I’m curious why it’s taken “many days” of searching. Wouldn’t a search for “*.fdb” from within File Explorer/Windows Explorer have accomplished the same thing in just a few seconds? I was ready to post that it’s virtually impossible for any browser to have opened a .FDB file thus the reason for it being found in the “Temporary Internet Files” folder. But Windows continues to amaze me with some of the unexpected things it does. For example, today I tried to force Internet Explorer to open my own .FDB file thinking that I get either gibberish characters on the screen or else some kind of error indicating an incompatible file type. However, when I pointed IE directly to the .FDB file via its OPEN… menu function, IE then asked me if I wanted to OPEN or SAVE the FDB file. I chose OPEN and it politely opened Legacy and then the .FDB file. In other words, it used my own registry’s file association to first open the correct application and then the requested .FDB file. How nice. Even using this indirect method of forcing a browser to open a .FDB file, the file does not appear in the Temporary Internet Files folder. So that still doesn’t indicate how your .FDB file managed to find its way into the Temporary Internet Files folder. I suspect a late night gremlin at work…probably human in nature. J Brian in CA The drought is over From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:02 AM To: legacy forum Subject: [LegacyUG] Family File Hi Folks: I have been having a difficult time finding one of my family data files anywhere on my computer. After many days of searching... I managed to find one. This is the location it gives me: Legacy – [C:\Users\Gail\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\YCM1GS78\Hennessy_Family_22 Jan 2017[1].fdb] after the word content, that character is a upper case i, but won’t type. (different problem) I never knowingly made that file that long or that content, at least knowingly. Usually it is Hennessy Family 22 Jan 2017.fdb I don’t know how to fix this. Any help out there? Thanks, Gail [email protected]
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