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RonWell yes, but I take a large number of photos which are a fiddle to backup on to CDs and my son's advice (he works in computers) is that if I get a second external hard drive I can copy everything on to it and back all up, say weekly. I know that when my old hard drive died suddenly a couple of years ago, it cost a lot of money and time to get someone to retrieve all they could from the old, damaged drive and then I spent days getting everything new sorted out to my satisfaction. Some things were lost forever too. Also the size of an external hard drive is much bigger than my computer and my husband's laptop together so we can both use it for backups.So the decision is just about made and I plan to run a scan and then a backup weekly with the computer left on overnight to do both jobs.Elizabeth ronald ferguson wrote:Elizabeth,There's no need to buy an external hard drive just for storing back-ups, although it would be very useful for other things as well. I just copy my back-up to a Flash Drive. It works fine.Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk New Blog: Open Legacy Family File with Open Office View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:31:06 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] re: Sudden Shutdown Thanks for the tips both to you and Cathy.I think I should re-schedule the scan to occur one night a week and thenleave it switched on - it reverts to stand-by pretty quickly anyway. I do find sometimes that it gets 'tired' as it were and I then have to switch off and reboot in any case. And, no, I don't turn it off several times a day, once it is on, it's on till bedtime. Now to buy an external spare hard disk as I think I need that to backup properly, as Cathy suggested. Elizabeth ronald ferguson wrote:I'm afraid it's not very environmentally friendly, but yes, my PC is on 24/7. I do, however, have to switch it off for a brief period every 3 or 4 days as it seems to accumulate background rubbish which I need to get rid off.Incidentally, although it would seem you don't do it, it is not a good idea to switch it on and off several times a day but better to leave it running.Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk New Blog: Open Legacy Family File with Open Office View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:35:49 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] re: Sudden ShutdownI see you run your virus scanner overnight - presumably that means youhave to leave the power on? I have been in the habit of switching off at the wall when we go to bed. I think I only have Legacy 6 installed which is where the shortcut points to but I do see I should check that - thanks. ronald ferguson wrote:Elizabeth,I run my virus scanner overnight since I am rather low on memory for all the applications I tend to have running during the day, and to do the scan at the same time really slows down my computer. In the worst instance it may also cause crashing if the memory runs out. It could be that you lost your files due to shortage of memory, although this is speculation on my part.Unless you have a specific reason for running two versions of Legacy it is far better to only have one installed, partly for memory considerations but also to avoid confusion as to which one you are actually running and which back-ups are which - I know that they will be in different directories but it is still easily done.I am sure Cathy does mean backing up the .usr files to CD, flash drive or whatever other means of back-up you may use. I also do the same btw.Ron Ferguson_____________________________________________________________________For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk New Blog: Open Legacy Family File with Open Office View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/_____________________________________________________________________Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:03:44 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] re: Sudden ShutdownThanks - I think that McAfee deleted my .usr files as I could find .usrfiles in C:\Legacy and C:\Program Files\Legacy too. I tried usingolder ones, but it had lost data so I then opened Legacy with the 2006 .usr files restored and then opened my most recent backup and now it alllooks fine. McAfee 'says' it only deleted cookies and the missing .usr files were not in quarantine.However, as I have copies of Legacy (Deluxe) in both C:\Legacy and inC:\Program Files\Legacy, what is the best way of dealing with that,please? Should I move all of one set to the other place, or delete oneset? I am using Windows XP not Vista. I get regular updates fromLegacy and am using Version 6.0.0.179 - they presumably all go in thesame place.Your comment about backing up the .usr files, do you mean storing them on the CD when I backup Legacy and the Multimedia files? I have neverdone that. Elizabeth Cathy wrote:Hi Elizabeth,This doesn't normally happen with any form of scan on a computer butevery now and again one of the AntiMalware softwares get falsepositives and it sounds like whatever was scanning took exception tosomething in the Legacy files.Closing Legacy by right clicking on it when it's minimised to the TaskBar is no problem. I do it all the time. It sounds like you've lost all your .usr files and they've all reverted to the defaults.The fonts etc that you are referring to aren't held within the .fdb file. That only has your data so going to a backup of your Family Filewon't return the fonts etc. You have to re choose your options in Options> Customise andeverywhere else - unless you can see that whatever was scanning hasquarantined the files somewhere and you can release them.Another possibility is that you've got two installations of Legacy onyour computer and you've opened a different one. If you installedLegacy into Program Files, take a look to see whether you also have a C:\Legacy folder. That's the default location but many of us installto Program Files - though I understand things are different withVista. If you are using Vista and you installed to the Program Files folder, then I think the .usr files etc get put in some virtual store or something? Sorry. I don't have Vista but know that programs aren't allowed to write to the Program folders after installation. There's information on the Legacy web pages on how to properly install Legacyto run under Vista. Are you a Deluxe user? Have you also lost access to the Deluxefeatures? If so, you'll need to re-enter your Customer Number as well.For another occasion: I include the .usr files in my regular computerbackup so that I can restore them if/when necessary. Cheers, Cathy At 07:55 AM 16/02/2008, you wrote:Earlier today when my computer was doing a regular scan Legacy suddenly stopped responding and shut down. I wasn't using theprogram at the time and had tried to close it by right-clicking theicon on the bar at the bottom of my computer screen. I re-startedthe computer and tried to open Legacy again. It asked me which file to open and found the Master.fdb file that I use but when it opened, all the fonts had changed to the default and other minor things were different. I then closed that and opened up one of my backup copiesbut the file still looks different.I am normally elsewhere on a Friday morning which is why the routine scan takes place then but today I was at my computer. Should I havestopped the scan working while I was using the computer?Can anyone explain why this happened and should I do anything to stopit happening again? ElizabethI forgot to add that when I open Legacy since it shut down, I get the Welcome to Legacy 6 tips window and then the offer to Order a Legacy Manual. My information appears to be fine but why has this happened,please? 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