I suspect you just had a glitch in the transmission or the process you used. The name that you each use doesn't matter. I've been using Intellishare with my sister for several years via email, CD's, and jump drives with zero problems.
I am assuming that the jump drive worked (you imply that but didn't explicitly say so). I'm not quite sure what you mean by "I exported my family file to a Legacy file and saved it under a different name." You could have used "File | Save Family File as" or used Windows Explorer to copy and save to another name. Mike Method researching Method, Feehely, Fredrick, Herzog, TenEyck, Belsley In a message dated 02/01/09 09:38:03 Eastern Standard Time, deanbuc...@gmail.com writes: My husband has heard me talk about his family history long enough and now he wants to get in on the action. Yay! We have separate computers so I decided that the Intellishare option would work for us. I have read the Help Center article and understand what I'm supposed to do when he sends me the file AFTER he's made changes. I exported my family file to a Legacy file and saved it under a different name. I e-mailed the file to him. When we tried to open it through Legacy on his computer, it did not work. It had the .fdb extension. Luckily we're in the same house, so I could copy the file to a jump drive and move it to his computer. But I'm wondering, what happens when the person you're sharing with is in another state and e-mail is the only way to transmit the files back and forth? Does anybody have any ideas or experience with this? The only problem that I can think of is the possibility that the file name I used for the e-mailed version (send to rick.fdb) was not a good name. When I exported to my jump drive, I used a one word file name. Could that explain the problem? Dede Holden
