I use XP, not Vista, and Legacy is installed in its own folder, not Program
Files. I thought perhaps your having Legacy in Program Files was something
that Vista required, but looking at the Legacy Help page for Vista users, is
the following:
"For Legacy Family Tree to run properly under Windows Vista, only install
the Legacy program to the default C:\Legacy folder, rather than changing it
to "C:\Program Files\Legacy". If you install Legacy to the Program Files
directory, you will discover that Vista does not allow users to write files
to that location. Instead, Vista redirects any changes to Legacy files to a
Virtual Store folder, a location in the user's profile. This creates
serious problems, for example, if more than one user (people with different
user accounts) attempt to work in the same family file."
Hope this helps,
Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson)
Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: Gary
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:23 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Vista Data Redirection
I recently noticed some odd behaviour with Legacy that I will share here.
I noticed I could only see all my data files and backups from within Legacy
only. If I used Windows Explorer or using search, these files couldn't be
seen at all. Odd indeed. I originally ignored this until I tried to do a
update and lost all my files, or so I thought.
As it turns out, under Vista you are not supposed to store data in the
"Program Files" directory. all files placed there are supposed to be placed
there by "trusted installers". For backward compatibilty Microsoft has some
sort of redirection driver that places your data in a directory called
"Virtual Store"...
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files
...as opposed to...
C:\Program Files
Somehow in doing the Legacy update, the link to the data files was lost.
I have since moved all my data files into the "Documents" folder and edited
my options to reflect this.
Gary
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