Sherry, I use the master file/Intellishare scheme. Until all collaborators shift to Legacy 7, there must be Legacy 6 masters, else I can't return usable copies. I keep separate files for many branches, for good reasons, but also common working files and database, about 5 GB. It's not real practical to keep shifting stuff between machines - time consuming and the file synch. problem bites...
I started with Legacy 5 Free, upgraded to De Luxe, to Legacy 6 and 7. Somewhere in that, my wife got a laptop, replaced when it died. To conform to the EULA, she ran the corresponding free version. The legal position seems obscure. If the fee for a deluxe version update is just a licence purchase at reduced cost, then there's an argument for my being able to simultaneously use Legacy 6 and 7 deluxe on one or two machines. Whether I could put the Legacy 6 deluxe on my wife's machine, for both of us to use, is more debatable. If the reduced cost of a deluxe version update constitutes merely an extension of the life of existing software, then the implication is one edition for me to use at one time. One tries to do the right thing, and a fudge at transition time certainly seems excusable. Comment? Official comment? kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry/Support" <she...@legacyfamilytree.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Monday, February 1, 2010 11:33:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Coexistence of Legacy 6 and Legacy 7 You won't be able to read the Family Files in Legacy v6 once they've been opened in Legacy v7. Why do you want to run the two programs side-by-side? You can have Legacy Deluxe on all your personal computers. The License.txt file in the main c:\Legacy folder reads "1. GRANT OF LICENSE. Millennia grants to you the right to use the enclosed Millennia program (the SOFTWARE). You may install it on more than one computer (such as a laptop) as long as there is no chance of more than one copy being used at the same time." Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: britton...@comcast.net [mailto:britton...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 7:12 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Coexistence of Legacy 6 and Legacy 7 Thanks Ron, but I don't see how to do your workaround. Legacy downloads seem to come only as setup packages, so I can't see how to get access to Legacy.exe until the Registry has already been written. Do I have that wrong? I also no longer have a clean machine: My Legacy 6 folder is ~1.1 GB, so I'm a bit reluctant to dismember it. I copied it to a fresh XP install, ran the original setup to make the Registry entries etc., and all seemed well, though I didn't check whether I had reverted the version to 6.0.0.0. I did some merges, including calling in Intellishared satellites to synchronize all to the master. I then installed the latest version of Legacy 7 to a prepared folder by that name and tested it briefly - all well, but Legacy 6 quit. It seems possible that I could go back and forth between 6 and 7 by repeated "installs", but the thought of doing that to a Microsoft Registry stands my remaining hair on end. Risking an XP reinstall isn't attractive because it's a dual boot machine (Linux), there's now no redundancy on the Legacy 6 stuff, and I'm nervous about uninstalls if the Registry is now odd. As I understand the EULA, running De Luxe versions of the same upgrade chain on different machines would probably be a violation. Any advice? Thanks again kb Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
