Ron you said " or copy the file to a USB stick and then import into your PC – the easiest." I mainly work on my PC, but do like to keep a fairly current copy on my Laptop, I too had gone to the archives and couldn't figure out what to do. In the past I've always backed up to "My Documents", which has 2 neat zip files, but due to some major problems getting a new Windows 7 PC up and going with Legacy, I was instructed to back up to C:Legacy/Data, now I have these multiple files in My Documents and in the Legacy/Data folder. Questions: 1. I don't want multiple copies of files I don't need, I know I can delete the older zip files, but what about the others? 2. I saw another post and someone said we should backup these other files occasionally, how do I back these up? 3. Has this always been like this or is this something new? Thanks, Syble
--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: From: Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] using multiple computers To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 10:50 AM Sandy, There are various ways of doing this. If you have internet access for both you can use a program called Dropbox – for safety make sure that you open the laptop so that the data will be copied to their server,, and close it before starting the PC, if you have a router then you can network the 2 machines (more complex, depending on the operating systems) – this is not the only way of networking BTW,, or copy the file to a USB stick and then import into your PC – the easiest. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Sandy Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] using multiple computers Hi everyone, I did read this on legacy years ago but did not think I would need it. Can someone tell me how when you are using 2 computers - 1 laptop and 1 desktop how you make one the masterfile, so that you can use the laptop and then when you come home update the masterfile. So you dont inadvertently loose information on the chnage over. sandy 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 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
