Thank you all for your responses. I have no experience with GEDCOM
files but I know it's covered in Legacy Help so I will check it out.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
At 08:20 PM 1/31/2009, you wrote:
Given the state of increasing storage capacity, why not save all
three. More importantly however, I would save GEDCOM files. They are
simply plain text files and that has been readable since the early
days of computing, and will be for the foreseeable future. The media
they are stored on is more likely to require migration before those
file types will be unreadable.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <cathyv...@cox.net>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 2:45 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] File types
I can save several document files as rich text (.rtf), Word
document (.doc), or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files. In thinking years
ahead when someone may want to open the file and all software
programs have gone through several updates, can anyone suggest
which file type would more likely be able to be opened?
I have paper copies but I'm trying to make the best long-term
decision about the saved file type.
Thank you.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
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