Syble, That process is fine, although instead of copying the back up via the USB stick I would just backup from the copied Family File. If you do not have the back-up Icon on your Toolbar, right click on the tool bar and drag it from the main box to the smaller one.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Syble Glasscock Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:19 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] using multiple computers/backing up I did it like was instructed below. It seems to be okay. I guess I'm just afraid it's not going to copy correctly. I THANK all who responded. I am still considering other options. Do I understand correctly. 1. I have all my images in one folder, so I copied & replaced it onto the thumb drive, then to my Legacy file on Laptop (Goal is to have ALL in updated folder on Laptop). 2. I backed up my family file on PC then copied to thumb including mm files. Then I restored this zip file to Laptop. 3. I'm assuming that all images/mm will then connect to respective places. Thanks again. Syble --- On Tue, 2/1/11, Genealogy mail <rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net> wrote: From: Genealogy mail <rgstrong-ge...@hughes.net> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] using multiple computers/backing up To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 9:40 PM Syble, Why not just use the backup and restore function built into Legacy. Main PC: 1. Backup file and multimedia letting both have date added to filename.. 2. copy backup files to a thumbdrive or network drive. 3. then copy the backup files back to the laptop’s Legacy folder where you keep backups. 4. Restore family file with same name. 5. When you are done with the file on your laptop, then repeat the steps as above for the laptop. You only have to backup the media files only if you have added or changed them. Russ From: Syble Glasscock Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:26 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] using multiple computers/backing up 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. 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