Hi Diane Firstly when you buy a flash drive you will need one large enough to take all the information you wish to put on it. I use a 2Gb at the moment, but my files are fairly small therefore I have room to expand. I know there are folk on the LUG who have huge Legacy files. I would go for as big a drive as you can afford, but I would avoid the very small ones.
I use my flash drive to keep on it my legacy family file which I call 'My Family'. I also keep my multimedia files on the same flash drive and a copy of the legacy programme file as a backup. This is the way I organize it: I copy the entire contents of the Legacy File from my programmes file to the flash drive. This creates an identical 'Legacy' file which, in case of emergencies I can copy back on to my hard drive in the Programmes folder. There have been several discussions in the Legacy User Group as to the usefulness backing up the legacy programme file. I then create another folder which I call 'Family Tree'. Inside this folder I copy my Family tree Legacy Data file which I call 'My Family' - yours may be called something else according to what you decided to call it. I keep all my multimedia files that I use with Legacy in two folder which I call 'My Family Photos' and 'My Family Sources'. I copy both these folders and their contents into the 'Family Tree' Folder. I then create a shortcut of the 'My Family' file to the desktop on my computer. You then need to run the Legacy programme making sure it is pointing to the file on your flash drive. (When you have started Legacy, go to File<Open Family File. Where it has 'Look in', click on the little arrow, go to your flash drive, click on family tree folder and you should find the 'My Family' file. If you click on it you will have opened the file on your flash drive. Next, you need to make sure all your photo's, sources etc are found - remember you have moved these to a new location on your flash drive also. Do this by going to Options<Customize< and then the Locations tab. Click on 'Test All Multimedia Paths' and make sure everything is pointing to the multimedia files you have on your flash drive. When you have gone through this process once, the files on your flash drive should work first time, every time. Earlier, we created a shortcut to your desktop. In future all you need to do is click on this and it will open your files on the flash drive first time, in the Legacy programme. When you come out of the Legacy programme, you should be prompted to save the zipped version of the file. Save the Legacy File and the Multimedia file to somewhere on your PC - not on the flash drive (in case it fails, or you lose it!) You will then be able to recover everything. Only when you are sure everything works, delete the old (in my case) 'My Family File', 'My Family Photos' and 'My Family Sources' from the PC - careful not to delete from the flash drive. All your data is now on the flash drive, and working, with no other duplicate files on your computers - other than the zipped backups. Hope this makes some kind of sense - please don't delete from your hard drive until you are sure everything is working from your flash drive. This process you only need to do once - from then on it's all plain sailing. Best wishes David S Brookes Polesworth N Warks England -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane nault Sent: 26 December 2006 11:57 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. Thank you everyone for the answers. It seems as though most of you are using flash drives. So I guess I will invest in one. Any particulars on this? Also when I back up the files from one computer to another, I would just backup using the backup feature to the flash drive, and how do I put the backup on the other computer? I can't find a way to do that, what file does it go in, just Legacy. As you can see I am not that knowlegeable in this... Thank you, you have all been very helpful. Diane >From: "Glen Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. >Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:00:40 -0800 > >Diane, > >I use a flash drive. I keep my data on the flash drive and back up to >the desktop & laptop computers. > >This way, I can take my data with me and use any computer that has >Legacy installed on it. > >Glen Ballard > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- >------------------- >P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy >program can be downloaded FREE at >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >------------------- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Diane nault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> >Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 10:15 AM >Subject: [LegacyUG] Transfer files between computers. > > >Hello, >I have recently bought a laptop and I also have a desk top. I enter >info on both and would like to know the best way to transfer the new >info to either one? Thank you >Diane > > > > >*** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! 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