Adding new hard drives so that you can expand the "holding area" for Legacy files is easy on any computer. You can add an internal hard drive (usually the cheapest, safest, and most reliable) assuming that there is room for it inside the case. The new hard drive will not be a C:\ drive but Windows will automatically assign the next available drive letter to it. So if you already have a CD/DVD drive, the new hard drive would become E:, or F:, etc. The same holds true if you attach an external hard drive. Windows will take care of the drive letters.
But here is where things get a little complicated. Millennia recommends that you install their program to the default folder which will be C:\Legacy. All of the program files take up just over 100 megs so installing Legacy on the new computer on the C:\ drive shouldn't be a problem. It's the family database and all the multimedia files such as pictures that take up all the file space. You can easily install these into what folder name(s) you choose on the new added hard drive but you MUST let the Legacy program know where everything is at. You do that under the menu item OPTIONS/CUSTOMIZE. Then choose the LOCATIONS tab and enter the exact path to the various file types on that tab. Brian in CA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: WILLARD WHEATON [mailto:wwheato...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:37 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work out of state. I am getting too old to continue my work, and want to transfer to a younger relative with the minimum work for her to get the system up and running. My program and data, pictures, videos, documents, etc. amount to 35GB of disk space, but she does not have that much available space on her Hard Drive. My program and data is on my C:\Program Files\Legacy 70 Deluxe\ and \Data folder for the multimedia material. We apparently have two options. 1. Get a bigger C: drive for her computer, so that all my multimedia material (which now points to the C: drive) can be simply installed on her new C: drive. However, to do that means she has to transfer all her current stuff to the new hard drive and I am not sure she can easily do that. 2. Get a new external USB hard drive, and put a new version of Legacy on it. Transfer all my data files to it, and send it to her. However, presently my Legacy pictures point to locations on my C: drive. When she get's this drive, her computer won't recognize it as her C: drive so they data won't be found. I know of no easy method of reassigning a new location for each picture to have Legacy look somewhere else, without reinstalling each and every picture (over 3500) which is not my idea of Fun! I thought that if I made the external Hard Drive bootable, then maybe it would boot as the C:drive when plugged into her machine, and the system would work as currently devised and operating. I'm sure other people have had this problem come up and thought I would find out what you did in a similar situation. Thanks in advance for your consideration, Willard Wheaton Jr. 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
