RE: [LegacyUG] Size of files

2013-07-02 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Technically, the file size limit of 16 EB is imposed by the hard drive file system, presumably NTFS, of which Windows imposes a 16 TB limit. ZIP64 apparently has a 16 EB limit also so that should handle every Legacy user. In other words, the OP should have no problems for the foreseeable

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't open Legacy, getting error 380

2013-07-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The OP mentioned that she cannot open Legacy let alone click on any menu items in order to retried a customer number. In addition, she would not be able to update or attempt to re-update from within Legacy. So, let’s begin with the customer number first. If she does not have it written down

RE: [LegacyUG] Can't open Legacy, getting error 380

2013-07-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
long since I've had any probs with Legacy. Thanks for the help!!! And Ron, too! On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: The OP mentioned that she cannot open Legacy let alone click on any menu items in order to retried a customer number

RE: [LegacyUG] uploading trees to Ancestry

2013-07-11 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I assume that you are talking about the paid subscription service of Ancestry.com. I would think that there must be something wrong with either your data format uploaded or perhaps some other configuration issue. I know that Ancestry’s free servers at World Connect / RootsWeb perfectly show

RE: [LegacyUG] How to deal with group photos within Legacy

2013-07-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
There are several ways to accomplish this: 1. Within the image “editing” of Legacy, is the “Description” of the image. In there you can add the names from the back of the photo. When printing out reports that include images, you must then put a checkmark by the “Include Description”

RE: [LegacyUG] Apostrophe in Filenames

2013-07-23 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
It's a bug. Microsoft declares only the following characters as reserved characters: \ / : * ?| Note that the apostrophe is NOT a reserved character. Therefore it is a legitimate character in the use of a windows filename. It works perfectly well on servers running a Windows, Linux,

RE: [LegacyUG] Surety v sources

2013-07-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I guess I was wondering more if suggestions go into any type of system and if there is a response from Legacy to the Legacy User - already in the pipeline, good idea we should have thought of that, nice thought but impossible to do, what are you crazy, or any response in between. That’s a

RE: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature

2013-08-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Just curious but what leads you to believe that v8.0 is “so close”? As I understand it, there is no official release date. That could mean days, weeks, months, or even longer than a year. Or did I miss something about an expected target date? Brian in CA From: Ron Ferguson

RE: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature

2013-08-02 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
HmmmI'm supposing that such shared events also will fail to import into Ancestry.com, both the paid subscriber pages and the free pages at RootsWeb. Not good. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 5:09 PM

RE: [LegacyUG] Version 8

2013-08-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
All these workaround seem to work but I was just wondering why nobody just makes a copy of their existing database and then Legacy is perfectly happy with having both open at the same time simply because they have two different file names. If you make your extra copy just before you want to

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Generated Web Pages - Pictures

2013-08-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Sent from my Xperia™ smartphone Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I’ve always considered that Legacy has done a fairly decent job in the creation of web pages. And I realize that web page generation is really a secondary consideration to any genealogical software program so I

RE: [LegacyUG] Census event question

2013-08-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
If one has entered various addresses using this event address feature, can one do a search on these addresses? I did a quick test and haven't been able to figure out how to search them but admittedly it was a very quick test. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Brian/Support

RE: [LegacyUG] unattached people claiming relationships

2013-08-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I believe in previous versions of Legacy this was an automatic recalculation. The programmers made it a manual update because it was either hogging to much CPU time, capable of creating errors when done on the fly, or a combination of both. Brian in CA Sent from my GE Blender From:

RE: [LegacyUG] Lost data!

2013-08-20 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
All good information and good step-by-step instructions. The only thing I would add is that the OP should be aware that “Lavern Cariota Family” and “LavernCariotaFamily” are NOT the same thing to a computer. Even though he indicated the name he wants is “LavernCariotaFamily”, the temp file that

RE: [LegacyUG] Where are census events recorded.

2013-09-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Others have already responded with various methods of handling this information. I take a “combined” approach in that I enter the information as a census event for the marriage and I add into the notes for the event a short summary of everybody included in that census record (easily done with a

[LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator

2013-09-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
While playing around with the relationship calculator today, I noticed at least one relationship came up with an asterisk on the end. I can't remember if this was ever discussed before but it obviously has some meaning and I could not find any disclosure in the Legacy Help files. This asterisk

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator

2013-09-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
relationship Ron Taylor _ From: Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 12:00 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator While playing around with the relationship calculator today, I noticed at least one

RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator

2013-09-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
: Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 4:14 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Relationship Calculator Thanks Ron. That was easy. By the way, I did look in Help but apparently the asterisk in spelled out as a word

RE: [LegacyUG] Webpages

2013-09-16 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Just as the other reply mentioned, viewers of your web page would have no problem reading any small fonts because all they would need to do is to hit Control+ when using a PC based web browser. If you wish, you can learn a whole new technology and start editing your own web pages and you can

RE: [LegacyUG] Webpages

2013-09-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
One does not NEED to use CSS. That's just another learning obstacle after learning the basics of HTML editing. One can safely throw out any mention of a CSS and revert back to font size=14 tags (or similar sizes) within the actual HTML document. But just to be fair, the World Wide Consortium

RE: [LegacyUG] Error Getting Next RIN

2013-09-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I would suggest to renumber your RINs. Go to Tools Renumber RINs and check the option to fill in all missing RINs from the highest (compacts the records). You have this option only with the Deluxe version. If you are using the Standard version, go here:

RE: [LegacyUG] Webpages

2013-09-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
What? Did you try this out ahead of time? First, the created Pedigree pages don't even use CSS at all. They rely solely on the supposedly outdated Font Size tags. But as I said, these tags work just fine with any browser. With that being said, try editing the HTML code for any of the names in a

RE: [LegacyUG] Webpages

2013-09-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
You've mentioned this at least once before. Is it something that you've submitted a bug report about? Can you provide an example of Legacy creating such incorrectly nested tables. I've always imported my created pages into my own HTML editor and while I've noticed a lot of small errors such as

RE: [LegacyUG] Webpages

2013-09-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Wow. Learn something new every day. For us yanks, I fairly certain that the phrase bells and whistles means...wait, I just googled it... the things that something, especially a device or machine, has or does that are not necessary but that make it more exciting or interesting. Usually I think

RE: [LegacyUG] Copying names from Legacy Docs folder

2013-09-23 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The COPY AS PATH command was added to Windows way back under Windows Vista. What's laughable is all the people who think they had to download and install some other program to do something that was already there as part of Windows. It can even be added into Windows XP if desired. I'm afraid

RE: [LegacyUG] Missing Media

2013-09-26 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Hang in there? Until when...??? It would be nice to have something like Fall of 2013 or Late 2013. I think Legacy has a lock on the award for the RSN Software of the Year. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Â Â Â

2013-11-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
On 2013/11/05 19:28, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Now you know why one of the rules for this board is that we should all be using PLAIN TEXT instead of sending in HTML which is probably the default setting for most users. We all forget to change the setting and as a consequence we have

RE: [LegacyUG] Backup folders and files

2013-11-06 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
It is true that by default Windows will display .zip files as folders. But if you don't like that method and want to rely on your own 3rd party .zip program to view the contents of .zip files, then check out the following web page with instructions on how to disable the display of .zip file

RE: [LegacyUG] Passage Express Deluxe

2013-11-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I’m thinking you’d be better served by posting this message on the Passage Express web site. They also have their own forum there. http://www.passageexpress.com/support.php Brian in CA From: Diane Chenault-Parke [mailto:dchena...@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:29 AM

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8

2013-11-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The code is being written by the same people who established the Obamacare web site. J Now if any of you really believe that the program will be released bug free, I can set you up with some oceanfront property in Arizona. Brian in CA From: CE WOOD [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent:

RE: [LegacyUG] Delete 7.5?

2013-11-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'm agreeing with all your observation and am left wondering why this wasn't called v7.6 instead of v8.0. Maybe I'm a purist at heart but in the past software marketers seldom increased a full digit unless it was a radical redesign especially of the user interface. And I would doubt that the

RE: [LegacyUG] Playing documents

2013-12-07 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Fits right in with the concept that under Windows you have to click on the START button in order to SHUT-DOWN. J Brian in CA On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Bryan Pratt brya...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: I always found

[LegacyUG] GMail Warnings on Mike Fry's messages

2013-12-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
(I just had to change the subject because this sub-thread has nothing to do with Legacy Home Tab – Updates) I use MS Office and don't recall ever seeing any warnings about Mike's message nor have any of them been marked as possible phishing. In fact there is nothing special in the message

RE: [LegacyUG] GMail Warnings on Mike Fry's messages

2013-12-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I googled Mike Fry trying to see if I could come up with any instance of that name being blacklisted or associated with a known spammer. I even checked his originating mail server on the ISP Blacklist Check list (http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check) to see if that is where the problem

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy8 w/Windows 32 or 64 bit (was: Highlighted colour)

2013-12-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
LOL!!! Sad but true. -Original Message- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy8 w/Windows 32 or 64 bit (was: Highlighted colour) Bryan, I really hope that your

RE: [LegacyUG] Words in date fields

2013-12-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Well that makes at least two of us that have been doing it that way for 15+ years and likewise no problems exposed on this end. The terms Private and Unknown seem to be well recognized by and utilized within other genealogical sources and programs. Personally the Double Date feature always had

RE: [LegacyUG] LUG Email test.

2013-12-23 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Thanks for your doctoring. :-) Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Brian [mailto:blr...@optonline.net] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 10:02 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] LUG Email test. Hello, Just a test to see if I'm receiving email and filtered

RE: [LegacyUG] Same Sex Partnerships/Marriages

2013-12-26 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
There is no genealogy in same-sex marriages thus there are no same-sex marriages in genealogy. If you want something for recording people, their lives and their relationships, it's called a diary. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: singhals [mailto:singh...@erols.com] Sent:

RE: [LegacyUG] Archived LUG e-mails

2013-12-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Archive link is working fine under IE, Chrome, and Firefox here using Win7-64. Reboot your computer and try again. If still no-workie, try a different computer or else I suspect your ISP has inadvertently blocked access (usually to a wide range of URLs) via a misconfigured server script or

RE: [LegacyUG] Archived LUG e-mails

2013-12-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Since others can confirm that the Legacy archive site is indeed accessible, this is what your obstacle will be. Most ISPs will never admit to a problem of their own doing but will silently fix the problem behind the scenes and then exclaim it must have cleared itself up. In the meanwhile, maybe

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem with installation

2013-12-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
The first one could have already been deleted. Meanwhile the second one with the “(2)” remains as your only one in use. Windows is not smart enough to know that the other(s) have been deleted. You can freely rename any icon to any convenient name you wish….such as just removing the “(2)”. And

[LegacyUG] Update Patch Notes

2014-01-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Just curious about this because I have not made the switch to v8 and have no plans to do so until the dust settles but typically on all other software packages there is usually an short text file entitled something along the lines of What was fixed and/or changed with this patch. I haven't seen

RE: [LegacyUG] Settings Printout

2014-01-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I miss all the old .INI files that programs used in the past. Everything all in one place. Very easy to manual edit. Things have changed. Sigh… Brian in CA From: ChasH [mailto:howell...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2014 2:29 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re:

RE: [LegacyUG] can't open my family files

2014-01-06 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
All the other responses are mostly correct. I suspect that while you may have originally installed v7.4, you also just updated to v7.5 maybe by accident and didn't realize it. That is why you now v7.5 is asking you to convert. Before you convert, I'd use Windows File Manager to create a copy of

RE: [LegacyUG] New member

2014-01-06 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
BEFORE you contact support for this problem, check your own spam filters and/or look in you “junk” or “spam” folder of email to see if they are getting through but just being routed there. Brian in CA From: Sue and Garry Mills [mailto:sue...@iinet.net.au] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014

RE: [LegacyUG] When to use AKAs

2014-01-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I’m wondering if all those that responded saying that they record every AKA along with the source where they found it really mean that they record every common variation of a name. What I mean specifically if someone’s given name was Robert, do they record an instance of Bob, and Bobbie, and

RE: [LegacyUG] When to use AKAs

2014-01-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I was going to say “good point” to Cheryl’s comment but your response is even “gooder”. Legacy makes these things all so flexible for the user. Just gotta love a program that does that! From: CE WOOD [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:01 PM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Dates

2014-01-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
It's very much like the date of a wedding. Many times the actual wedding was performed on one day but the minister did not return the license for recording by the clerk until some days later. I can't think of anyone that would want to use the date of recording because that is purely an

RE: [LegacyUG] Tagging marriages

2014-01-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Does anybody else think it strange to want genealogy software to also remind you of birthdays and anniversaries? Isn’t that why drug stores give out those free calendars where you just take out a pencil, open to all the appropriate months and days, and then write in things like “Uncle Joe’s

RE: [LegacyUG] Is anyone else having problems with Legacy Family Search?

2014-01-13 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
But it’s so much easier to just post a message and exclaim “The sky is falling. The sky is falling.” Brian in CA Yeah, been there, done that. From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 7:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject:

[LegacyUG] What's In This Update File

2014-01-14 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I've seen this response to several problems that have been reported and the fact that the remote support personnel are being told what's included in the next patch is the very thing that I asked about two weeks ago. That idea didn't seem to go over very well with Millennia support claiming it

RE: [LegacyUG] Upload gedcom to ancestry from V8

2014-01-19 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
If you don't want to go through all the steps to re-create your GEDCOM file, just use Windows Explorer to search for it. Assuming that it is somewhere on your C: drive, just type in the search window, *.GED (without the quote marks). It will bring up a list of any and all GED files on the

RE: [LegacyUG] Proper use of Address, Place, and Description

2014-01-24 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Lol :-) -Original Message- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 3:14 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Proper use of Address, Place, and Description On 25 Jan 2014 00:06, Ron Ferguson wrote: Have you tested your

RE: [LegacyUG] All my new Legacg 8 programs are locked

2014-01-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
In addition, the desktop icon for the family file may be pointing to an older or no longer valid location. You can right click on the icon and check the properties to see if the location is indeed the correct one as well as the correct name for the family file. Brian in CA -Original

RE: [LegacyUG] Notes

2014-01-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I agree with your suggestion about the use of the Notes fields and I tend to use them quite a bit. However, there is an obscure bug in their use that could present a minefield of disaster unless the user knows about this. This obscure bug involves the use of “Alt.Event” events such as

RE: [LegacyUG] Potential Problem Report - Illegal Characters

2014-01-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
You are the only person in the group that does NOT need to see an optometrist. J Brian in CA Yeah, I didn’t see it either. From: Dee Ziegler [mailto:dee.zieg...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:06 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Potential

RE: [LegacyUG] Notes

2014-01-30 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 30 Jan 2014 12:00 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Thanks for those comments, Brian. It's nice to know that the issue was at least partially addressed in v8. And like I mentioned, it is an obscure bug but the bombshell remains in that once the user makes

RE: [LegacyUG] Living?

2009-12-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
One more issue about the Presumed Dead setting and the fact that the Living?-YES/NO option remains active on those people flagged as presumed dead: If you make any kind of a text entry in the Cause of Death, then that person also is presumed dead by Legacy. Makes sense to me so far. But what is

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem with GEDCOM files

2009-12-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
When you select Export to Gedcom, on the main OPTIONS tab of the Gedcom Export dialog window, make sure to remove the checkmark from Keep Embedded formatting codes with text. Now for your next question, you will probably be asking which type of Gedcom should you be choosing from the drop-down

RE: [LegacyUG] General Notes

2009-12-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
This is an annoyance that has bothered me for a long time. Some people tend to put “family notes” with the husband but that certainly isn’t totally correct. What happens when the husband dies and the wife becomes the head-of-household over all her children. Do the family notes then migrate over

RE: [LegacyUG] Problem with Potential Problems

2009-12-18 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Brian is correct about the use of the + sign beside the burial information for adding notes, pictures, etc without creating a similar event name. However, I believe that there is a problem with getting any of this note information exported with a gedcom file to Ancestry, RootsWeb, etc. Seems

RE: [LegacyUG] multiple errors

2009-12-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
To accomplish an identical re-installation of Legacy: 1. Backup your family file onto an external drive, or other location on your existing hard drive. 2. Let Windows un-install the Legacy program. 3. Use Windows Explorer to manually rename the left-over Legacy folder to xLegacy --- or --- copy

RE: [LegacyUG] multiple errors

2009-12-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Wow, great big grin here. Truth is truth! Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com] Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:50 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] multiple errors Dennis M. Kowallek said the following on 2009/12/28

RE: [LegacyUG] multiple errors

2009-12-28 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
You have Win7 64-bit. The OS recognized Legacy as a legacy program (32 bit) and puts all such 32 bit programs into a folder called Program Files (x86). Win7 32-bit has only Program Files. I think its kind of funny that Legacy is now legacy software. Sooner or later everybody will be running 64

RE: [LegacyUG] problems with list

2009-12-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
1. Check your own ISP to see if junk mail filters are enabled and they are somehow deleting the LUG messages. 2. Check your own client email program to see same. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Jack Earnshaw [mailto:j...@jearnshaw.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 8:59 AM

RE: [LegacyUG] multiple errors

2009-12-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
curious, you seem to have such high regard for your own programming skills, why is it you haven't created the perfectly coded genealogy program? Regards, Ron Bernier On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I think these portions of this thread should

RE: [LegacyUG] Digest mode possible?

2010-01-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
People would then be more inclined to read before clicking. Surely you jest! Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Mike Fry [mailto:mike...@iafrica.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:35 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digest mode possible? C.G. Ouimet

RE: [LegacyUG] Digest mode possible? ---Ain't gonna happen!

2010-01-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
: Tuesday January-05-10 7:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Digest mode possible? Is there any way to get just the questions about digest mode in digest mode? LOL Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: People would then be more inclined to read before clicking. Surely you jest

RE: [LegacyUG] FTM to Legacy help

2010-01-08 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] FTM to Legacy help The site you provided goes to a different genealogy software. Not only does that software not import FTW it changes the home page. Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Go here: http://www.familytreelegends.com/downloads This will allow

RE: [LegacyUG] Genalogy reports - SourceWriter

2010-01-15 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Hmmm...and I'm thinking that eggs are not used in a puddingunless you are talking about custards. over-eggs the custard? :-) OK, I better quit before Sherry chimes in and says this is all off-topic. Unless she knows a good recipe. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: RUNION

RE: [LegacyUG] Caption/Text for images (.jpg)

2010-01-15 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Agree that the price of Photoshop is probably too steep for most families and the alternatives suggested are all good ones. I might add that I have scanned many of my family's photo collections to make part of my genealogy records. The digital copies reside as part of the Photo Gallery in

RE: [LegacyUG] A Plea To The Developers

2010-01-25 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I didn't mean to infer switching to an encrypted file such as the Outlook .PST file. What I meant that within the Outlook program there is a menu item to import or export the info. In the case of Outlook, in can be in the form of a CSV file. I challenge anyone to save your cookies, especially

RE: [LegacyUG] Search for missing images

2010-01-27 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Thus the reason for the official recommended installation path of C:\Legacy instead of the normal C:\Program Files(x86). This gets a little convoluted and techy, but Legacy can peacefully exist in the Program Files folder if the user has Administrator rights. If the user is not an

RE: [LegacyUG] Win7 Clean Install left behind C:|Legacy folder

2010-01-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Win7 does NOT do a “clean” install but rather a “custom” install (in addition to an “upgrade” install). There is a finite difference between what we have come to call “clean” and what Microsoft is calling “custom”. During the installation procedure if you had elected to either format the

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Family Group Pictures

2010-01-29 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Since all of us probably have many JPEG pictures to go with our Legacy database, your post probably grabbed the attention of quite a few people. Unfortunately you are mistaking a copy with doing a save as. When you make a copy of a JPEG image using Windows Explorer, you get exactly that: the

RE: [LegacyUG] Master Location List 7.4

2010-02-01 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'm one of those that also subscribe to the concept of using the word County in the appropriate position. I figured I had to add more definitive info to the location when I once tried typing in this: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. You think us Yanks have a problem with all the Shires in

RE: [LegacyUG] How to enter an unnamed child

2010-02-02 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I think what the OP is saying is that there are one or more babies that died early in their infancies prior to the parents deciding upon a given name. It seemed to be a common practice amongst the American pioneers that sometimes children were not immediately named until days or even weeks

RE: [LegacyUG] How to enter an unnamed child

2010-02-03 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
And if people never married nor had children, then likewise they should be omitted. Holy crap...My family file just shrank by 20%. Yes, this has been an interesting discussion. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Lionel Carter [mailto:lionelcar...@freezone.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Initial Test (Legacy Users Group)

2010-02-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
It said “Initial Test” and I read 4 words but didn’t see any initials. Should I reinstall Legacy? ☺ Brian in CA From: smwc64 tds.net [mailto:smw...@tds.net] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:25 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Initial Test (Legacy Users Group)

RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-04 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
This got me to thinking about a bunch of photocopied obituary notices that I got in the mail today from another researcher who apparently had the clipped items from the original newspaper publications. Now, I can physically hold these photocopies in my hand, but I am not the source of the

RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
But be careful of what you are looking for, how old it may be, and from where you think it might have come. Check those web pages closely and you'll see that the cities covered are only the larger metropolitan areas. If your relative in the obituary were a farmer from a rural area and the

RE: [LegacyUG] Newspaper Announcements

2010-02-05 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: But be careful of what you are looking for, how old it may be, and from where you think it might have come. Check those web pages closely and you'll see that the cities covered are only the larger metropolitan areas. If your relative

RE: [LegacyUG] test

2010-02-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Mike is correct. Almost all service providers give each customer the option to turn on or off email filtering by the ISP. My point is not to argue which is the best method but I have my ISP filters turned OFF and I use my client program's own filters. Yes, it means I receive a lot of spam but I

RE: [LegacyUG] Un-named children

2010-02-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Eventually the parents named him Albert Marion Sanders and his name appears as such in the next census. I don't know how long it finally took them to give him a name and he was their fourth child so its not like they weren't used to the decision making process. And the Albert Marion part does

RE: [LegacyUG] Error 91 and lock-up

2010-02-09 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Error 91: object variables at With band not set.: It means the rubber band inside your computer is broke. Sorry, I couldn't resist that. It means you have a problem or corruption within your file. Use the tool from menu item File / File Maintenance / Check/Repair. The dialog box will suggest

RE: [LegacyUG] Descendant Book Report

2010-02-17 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I think the person responsible for the latest update to Legacy must be the same person who maintains this list server. Brian in CA From: Ruth Nerud [mailto:baber...@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:51 AM To:

RE: [LegacyUG] Pop up boxes squished

2010-02-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
There are many of us who cannot duplicate the problem and are wondering what this looks like. I'd like to see a screen capture of the problem just so I can know what to look for. And I might also suggest for those so afflicted to comment if this problem is only showing up in Legacy or maybe

RE: [LegacyUG] Pop up boxes squished

2010-02-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
recognise 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: There are many of us who cannot duplicate the problem and are wondering what this looks like. I'd like to see a screen capture of the problem just so I can know what to look for. And I might also suggest for those so

[LegacyUG] Squished Popup Box Pictures

2010-02-23 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I have established a single web page which shows the problem with Legacy v7.4 and squished popup boxes. Much thanks to Jennifer Crockett in the land down-under who sent me a screen capture showing the anomaly. Go here: http://legacy.the-lightfoots.com/ Brian in CA Rain, again? Legacy User

RE: [LegacyUG] Squished Popup Box Pictures

2010-02-23 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Message- From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:31 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Squished Popup Box Pictures I have established a single web page which shows the problem with Legacy v7.4 and squished popup boxes

RE: [LegacyUG] Test-- Subscribed, but no messages arriving

2010-03-02 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
There are at least two incarnations of the definition of greylisted. One involves something that is not yet blacklisted but on a watch list, or such similar happenings when a particular mail server is ill-configured. But the most common usage is that of an anti-spam filter which effectively

RE: [LegacyUG] Facebook Images

2010-03-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'm agreeing with Mike on this: not only is FaceBook more trouble than it's worth, you would also be best served by making sure all of your family members would have at least two strong anti-virus programs as well as a good anti-malware program before visiting any FaceBook pages. And then be

RE: [LegacyUG] Facebook Images

2010-03-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I'm curious about why you would send this message to the group if you thought you could not send messages. And then I'm equally curious as to why you would post the message as a reply about FaceBook instead of just starting your own thread. At any rate, you obviously are allowed to post. So

RE: [LegacyUG] Facebook Images

2010-03-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
and do so; secondly, the message I got back was addressed to this same group, so I think my question was legitimate and not as dumb as you imply. Bob On Mar 10, 2010, at 6:52 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: I'm curious about why you would send this message to the group if you thought you could

RE: Email problems (was: RE: [LegacyUG] Facebook Images)

2010-03-10 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
SOD? :-) Guess that doesn’t translate to Americanism. We’ve learned to throw off most of the British terminology but the slang has me stumped. Please advise what it means or if not appropriate for public posting, then I’d like a private email. Brian in CA __ From: Colin Liddell

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems

2010-03-11 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I think we should all be forgiving for an accidental hijacking of a thread. We've probably all been guilty of that at one time in the past or will be in the future. No harm. No foul. But the big question remains as to the OP's problem with posting. Note that he said he was prohibited from

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems

2010-03-11 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
We've seen countless messages come through in the past 2 or 3 months all complaining about the inability to post messages or not receiving any messages. Fellow users have sometimes suggested un-subscribing and then re-subscribing. Millennia support has also publicly posted advising users with

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: Email problems

2010-03-11 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Very interesting. Sounds to me like the LUG Administrator has some explaining to do. And before anyone suggests that we are just trying to point fingers, it's not about that at all. I think all us Luggers (Lugheads?) need to know what is going on with the server so that we can properly advise

RE: [LegacyUG] Entering birth years into Legacy

2010-03-14 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
Ron's caution about calculating age based on census data is quite worthy. Most US census figures were based on a person's age and place of abode as of June 1st or Apr 1st. Using either one of those as the cut-off date for the census, one person who was born in February would be one age while

[LegacyUG] Step 165 of 164

2010-03-22 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
I've never bothered with watching the numbers in the progress bar when one chooses the routine File Maintenance Check/Repair but this morning I watched the numbers whizz by. There were to be a total of 164 steps. Gee, imagine my surprise when it finished and proudly claimed it had completed 165 of

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