RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread William Boswell
: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Much against my will, I'm probably going to follow this for Data, if not for media, but I would like to propose that hereafter all user data be allowed to be put somewhere else besides the Microsoft categories. Doesn't anyone else resent the patronizing, over

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Ron Bernier
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:54 AM, William Boswell whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on a separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved to those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Dave
Bill, I also like to keep all of my document files on a different drive than the c: drive. Maybe this has been discussed here before but you can tell Windows to relocate folders like My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos etc. to a different location, in my case the e: drive.That leaves

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Mike Fry
On 2013/12/05 16:54, William Boswell wrote: I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on a separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved to those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against putting my data on the C drive.

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread William Boswell
, December 05, 2013 11:15 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Bill, I also like to keep all of my document files on a different drive than the c: drive. Maybe this has been discussed here before but you can tell Windows to relocate folders like My Documents

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Mike Fry
On 2013/12/05 18:46, William Boswell wrote: I didn't know you could get Windows to relocate My Documents to different locations. I never really use My Documents unless I purchased music online and it puts it there. Thanks for the suggestion. In Windows Explorer, right-click on My Documents

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Elizabeth Hatchell
whbosw...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you. -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 11:54 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues On 2013/12/05 18:46, William Boswell wrote: I didn't know you

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Charles Apple
) copies. Charles From: Elizabeth Hatchell [mailto:elizab...@hatchells.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 12:44 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues I am trying to follow this correspondence but looking at My Documents I see that not only all

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Elizabeth Hatchell
PM *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues I am trying to follow this correspondence but looking at My Documents I see that not only all media and data has been put there under the Legacy Family Tree folder, but also sub-folders as follows: Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-05 Thread Don Hanson
that they are no longer protected with MS updates and the latest threat is widely reported. Don -Original Message- From: grayscot2 [mailto:graysc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 10:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Much

[LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-04 Thread Margaret Gagliardi
Folks, I really need some help. My old PC died, but I had my files backed up. I just bought a Samsung Windows 8 PC and am trying to load everything onto it. I DO NOT understand Windows 8, so when I purchased Legacy 8, and downloaded it, it went to: C:/Users/myname/documents/Legacyfamilytree/ -

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Margaret: Legacy 8 has been updated to install the software in the more traditional areas of Windows which provided enhanced security. The older version 7.5 installed at the root level of drive C at C:\Legacy\ and this by-passed the normal security built into Windows. I recommend you use the

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-04 Thread Leon Chapman
Margaret: I forgot to tell you when you open and convert your Legacy 7 database using Legacy 8, you will need to run: Tools Media Relinker and then Gather Media. This will location and link all of your old picture files and the Gather Media allows you to make a copy of your picture files in

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-04 Thread Christine Gibbins
This worked for me: I let Legacy 8 load in to the suggested Program Files(x86). Opened the program and used the Customise option from the Options Tab, then Locations changed 6.1 to where I kept my Ver.7 files, having first made a copy of the ver.7 files, just in case.

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues

2013-12-04 Thread grayscot2
. From: Leon Chapman [chap...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 01:30 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Margaret: Legacy 8 has been updated to install