Backups should include your system files, shared files, drivers, essential My Doc files and folders inside programs like Word, Legacy, Acrobat - any program folder that automatically stores saved documents. This approach collects ALL your critical files in a single backup. CDRs cost 30 cents in bulk - perform an overall backup like this once a week or twice a month and you're never in danger of losing very much. Of course, because of file sizes I backup photos and media files seperately and on different discs. I also make daily backups to a second harddrive on my system. These backups are in addition to backups I make whenever I add a lot of info to my Legacy file or write a critical paper in another program. Then I just add them to a CDR immediately and use that until its full. I don't know of any program that keeps shared files like dictionaries within its own program folder. Such proprietary routines would add many hours to prgramming costs and would be unneccessary - the old saw about reinventing the wheel. No option is necessary Ken, but listing the normal location and name of such shared files in the help files would assist users in locating these files for making backups.
Chuck Elledge -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken McGinnis Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Custom dictionaries... I'm sure there are many different spell checking programs available and the three programs you listed may use a different control than we use but I'm also sure that we are many program using the same spelling control we selected to use. My message was simply trying to explain or give an answer to why we selected to follow what I think most companies do and put the dictionaries in the system folder. I don't see the Microsoft Word or Outlook dictionaries being stored in the My Documents folder so they can be backed up nor do I find my copy of PageMaker's dictionaries stored in the My Documents folder. I'm not against making this an option, I had just never thought about it before An Aardvaark asked about it. Thanks Ken McGinnis Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wm Voss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Custom dictionaries... > I don't know about others, but I had to re-enter all the custom words > already stored in Word, Outlook, Pagemaker, etc the first time I ran spell > check in Legacy. Evidently few other programs use the same control files or > Legacy is not reading external changes to it. > > That said, it makes no difference to me where it is stored. > > Wm Voss > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ken > McGinnis > Sent: Tuesday, 18 November, 2003 21:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Custom dictionaries... > > > I don't have any scientific reason for you. The spell check control that we > use recommends and gives samples of installing ot the system folder because > any software that uses their control can then share the same dictionaries > and customized User dictionaries. If each program that used the contol put > copies in their own folders then the user would have to add custom words > over and over again for each program. The thought never occured to me to > let users over ride this setting and save it in the Legacy folder instead. > I guess this would have to be an option but since you are the very first to > ever ask this I'm not sure if it's worth adding at this time. Since you > know where it is kept you can copy it once in a while to a backup locatioon. > If we get more requests for this the of course we could make it an option > for people. Sorry I didn't answer your question the first time around. > > Thanks > > Ken McGinnis > Millennia Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > We are changing the world of genealogy! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "An Aardvaark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:12 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Custom dictionaries... > > > > I would really like an answer here, thank you very much. Backups are > essential, y'know. > > > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:05:36 -0800, An Aardvaark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > Why are userdic-us.tlx and the others installed in my > c:\windows\system32 directory, rather than, more appropriately, the > c:\legacy directory? > > > > > > Are other Legacy system files scattered in weird places on my hard > drive? 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