Cheryl, Unless one knows exactly what one is doing, has a very clear and logical memory, and thoroughly understands the workings of a DB then, as Mike says, to have two copies of the same DB open at the same time is a recipe for disaster. Definitely not recommended!
Some of the Legacy add-ons can use this technique, but you will find that if you open the add-on first, and then Legacy, a warning is given that the functionality of Legacy is restricted, in other words the DB goes into self-protect mode. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Rothwell Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 4:36 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Save Screen Layout I was just looking something up. In my prior program you could in fact make changes on a shared file. I haven't tried it in Legacy, hadn't actually thought of doing that. Cheryl Rothwell On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote: > > On 2011/01/02 17:52, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > > I have also discovered that while you cannot open two instances of > > Legacy on the same computer you can share the database on a network > > and have the same database open on both computers. I suspect if you > > wanted to do that regularly you would need to own two copies of the > > program. > > And that is a surefire recipe for disaster! Neither copy of the program > would > know that the file was open on the other machine, and so could not take > into > account any changes made on the other machine. At the very least, one set > of > changes to the file would be lost. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
