Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 9 REPLACED Legacy 8 (with no warning??)
Ian, The Legacy Cloud is not designed to be your only backup. It's just an extra which some people will find very useful. It only stores the last backup of a file. Cathy Ian Thomas wrote: There are a couple of glitches with the install, which I thought should not have happened from a professional organization. One of those is the pre-install backup (which cautious users would have done already), in regard to the '_Legacy Cloud_' backup. What's that? you say ... It appears that it does not allow one to un-check the Legacy Cloud backup and just proceed with a _normal backup_ to local disk (or whatever one's configuration in v8 used - which might have been OneDrive, Google, Dropbox, etc). And to join (register for) Legacy Cloud at that stage in the install is also fraught - see below. Also - a minor problem only - of course v9 is a paid upgrade and the v8 Customer Number doesn't work. If one is impatient or forgetful, and installs v9 before paying the money, of course what results is an install of v9 Standard Edition. But it's easy to pay (at the website – though a little awkward to locate the page and choose from many packages; I wanted only the $US26.95 upgrade one, at the bottom). Out of curiosity, I did register for Legacy Cloud and followed through with a backup after installing v9 with the Deluxe (paid) Customer Number. I made some minor changes to my Legacy family file and quit, so as to allow the normal backup (local disk, or OneDrive etc) and the newly-created Legacy Cloud backup. Both proceded without problems. I was tempted to pull the plug on my internet connection, to see how it handled the absence of a connection to the cloud - not frivolous, as flakey ADSL connections are common-place. For that same reason - slow or unreliable internet connections - I am ambivalent about a Legacy Cloud -only backup. In fact, with my ADSL connection, at best 35% to 45% of ADSL2+ maximum, registering for Legacy Cloud was a very slow process, requiring multiple refreshes of the browser to get the confirmation email sent back to me, then a similar slow response trying to link back to Legacy Cloud for completion of the registration process. Fortunately, quitting from Legacy v9 for local + cloud backup was acceptably quick (I have a small family file, few pictures or media files). Apart from its cost to Millennia, having a private company 'cloud' can be a hassle. Although I don't have it configured that way now, I think I will use my (local hard drive folder) Microsoft OneDrive for the regular backup location, since OneDrive's local hard disk synchronization to OneDrive in the Microsoft cloud is automatic and fully reliable. Also, as a part of the purchase, I separately downloaded the PDF user manual / reference manual for v9. It was worthwhile rembering to get it. Now, to explore the new v9 … Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert57P_gmail Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2017 8:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 9 REPLACED Legacy 8 (with no warning??) With the jump from version 7 to version 8, we were allowed to have both installed on our PCs so we could continue to use version 7 while we "explored" version 8. This is what I wanted to do with version 9. When I started the install, I saw that it was installing to a different folder from Legacy 8, so I thought I was safe. But when the install was done, my Legacy 8 program folder is now GONE. I did not see anything (it could have been there, but I did not see it) that said version 8 would be purged. And since I DID look and saw that version 9 was installing to a different folder, all appearances were that I could have both installed at the same time. In my book, purging version 8 WITH NO WARNING, especially after one sees that version 9 is going into a different folder, is VERY deceptive and "not cool". Especially since my version 8 was the licensed deluxe version but the version 9 is the free version - so now I am missing features (that were in version 8) WITH NO WARNING (at least, none that I saw). At the very least, some type of OBVIOUS pop-up should say something about "version 8 will be deleted". At the best, a pop-up should come up ASKING if we "want version 8 deleted (suggested option) or leave version 8 available". Don't get me wrong, you guys do an EXCELLENT job with features and support. And Legacy is a GREAT program. But I think you blew it on this step . . . Bob -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To
Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 9 REPLACED Legacy 8 (with no warning??)
There are a couple of glitches with the install, which I thought should not have happened from a professional organization. One of those is the pre-install backup (which cautious users would have done already), in regard to the 'Legacy Cloud' backup. What's that? you say ... It appears that it does not allow one to un-check the Legacy Cloud backup and just proceed with a normal backup to local disk (or whatever one's configuration in v8 used - which might have been OneDrive, Google, Dropbox, etc). And to join (register for) Legacy Cloud at that stage in the install is also fraught - see below. Also - a minor problem only - of course v9 is a paid upgrade and the v8 Customer Number doesn't work. If one is impatient or forgetful, and installs v9 before paying the money, of course what results is an install of v9 Standard Edition. But it's easy to pay (at the website - though a little awkward to locate the page and choose from many packages; I wanted only the $US26.95 upgrade one, at the bottom). Out of curiosity, I did register for Legacy Cloud and followed through with a backup after installing v9 with the Deluxe (paid) Customer Number. I made some minor changes to my Legacy family file and quit, so as to allow the normal backup (local disk, or OneDrive etc) and the newly-created Legacy Cloud backup. Both proceded without problems. I was tempted to pull the plug on my internet connection, to see how it handled the absence of a connection to the cloud - not frivolous, as flakey ADSL connections are common-place. For that same reason - slow or unreliable internet connections - I am ambivalent about a Legacy Cloud -only backup. In fact, with my ADSL connection, at best 35% to 45% of ADSL2+ maximum, registering for Legacy Cloud was a very slow process, requiring multiple refreshes of the browser to get the confirmation email sent back to me, then a similar slow response trying to link back to Legacy Cloud for completion of the registration process. Fortunately, quitting from Legacy v9 for local + cloud backup was acceptably quick (I have a small family file, few pictures or media files). Apart from its cost to Millennia, having a private company 'cloud' can be a hassle. Although I don't have it configured that way now, I think I will use my (local hard drive folder) Microsoft OneDrive for the regular backup location, since OneDrive's local hard disk synchronization to OneDrive in the Microsoft cloud is automatic and fully reliable. Also, as a part of the purchase, I separately downloaded the PDF user manual / reference manual for v9. It was worthwhile rembering to get it. Now, to explore the new v9 ... Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert57P_gmail Sent: Wednesday, 19 April 2017 8:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy 9 REPLACED Legacy 8 (with no warning??) With the jump from version 7 to version 8, we were allowed to have both installed on our PCs so we could continue to use version 7 while we "explored" version 8. This is what I wanted to do with version 9. When I started the install, I saw that it was installing to a different folder from Legacy 8, so I thought I was safe. But when the install was done, my Legacy 8 program folder is now GONE. I did not see anything (it could have been there, but I did not see it) that said version 8 would be purged. And since I DID look and saw that version 9 was installing to a different folder, all appearances were that I could have both installed at the same time. In my book, purging version 8 WITH NO WARNING, especially after one sees that version 9 is going into a different folder, is VERY deceptive and "not cool". Especially since my version 8 was the licensed deluxe version but the version 9 is the free version - so now I am missing features (that were in version 8) WITH NO WARNING (at least, none that I saw). At the very least, some type of OBVIOUS pop-up should say something about "version 8 will be deleted". At the best, a pop-up should come up ASKING if we "want version 8 deleted (suggested option) or leave version 8 available". Don't get me wrong, you guys do an EXCELLENT job with features and support. And Legacy is a GREAT program. But I think you blew it on this step . . . Bob -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives a
[LegacyUG] Legacy 9 REPLACED Legacy 8 (with no warning??)
With the jump from version 7 to version 8, we were allowed to have both installed on our PCs so we could continue to use version 7 while we "explored" version 8. This is what I wanted to do with version 9. When I started the install, I saw that it was installing to a different folder from Legacy 8, so I thought I was safe. But when the install was done, my Legacy 8 program folder is now GONE. I did not see anything (it could have been there, but I did not see it) that said version 8 would be purged. And since I DID look and saw that version 9 was installing to a different folder, all appearances were that I could have both installed at the same time. In my book, purging version 8 WITH NO WARNING, especially after one sees that version 9 is going into a different folder, is VERY deceptive and "not cool". Especially since my version 8 was the licensed deluxe version but the version 9 is the free version - so now I am missing features (that were in version 8) WITH NO WARNING (at least, none that I saw). At the very least, some type of OBVIOUS pop-up should say something about "version 8 will be deleted". At the best, a pop-up should come up ASKING if we "want version 8 deleted (suggested option) or leave version 8 available". Don't get me wrong, you guys do an EXCELLENT job with features and support. And Legacy is a GREAT program. But I think you blew it on this step . . . Bob -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
