On Sun, 16 May 2004 01:41:40 -0700, John S. ADAMS wrote: > As a test, I left Legacy open most of today; closed all unnecessary programs > except antivirus and firewall. I did some stuff on the internet, returned > to Legacy and put in a little data. Then left the computer on for a few > hours while I did other things. Came back and did some net surfing. After > Legacy had been on 13 hours, I went to my own Individual Information screen. > All fields in the top half were blank. I clicked on the Source icon and > selected a source. The Source data fields on the bottom half of the screen > were blank. I returned to the Family View screen. My Name field said > "Unknown;" the Birth field was blank. I selected the Name List; my name was > "Unknown." Legacy froze up at this point. I had used Ctrl-Alt-Del and got > the message, "Program not responding." When I re-opened Legacy, my name was > still "Unknown" and the Indiv Info fields were blank. I re-entered my info > by hand. > > This is repeatable if I leave Legacy open long enough. The data for an > individual disappears only if I enter the Individual Information screen. > Regardless of how many programs I have running, I do not have these problems > until Legacy has been open for many hours. I never get any messages > indicating insufficient memory. I'm at a loss, but nervous about losing > data. I'm making more frequent backups now.
I wonder if all this might not be related to the so-called "Power Saving" features (APM) in the BIOS and operating system. So far as I know, these were not too well implemented in the early versions of Windoze (95/98 etc). -- Regards, MIKE FRY Tel: +27 (011) 793 6300 Fax: +27 (011) 792 8662 Cell: +27 083 380 3414 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
