Having had the HDD issue in the past I back up my database every time I update it to my C drive and to another hard disk drive. It take only a minute or two and is well worth the trivial effort.
Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Ferguson" <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Of Family File Howland, Join the club – the HDD on my old XP machine went kaput last Saturday. Following which I would make one point to others, ensure that you have your email copies of your software registrations backed up on another disk. Unfortunately I had not done this for my Tree Draw Legacy program and Legacy Sales are extremely slow in replying to my urgent emails requesting copies of the registration (6 days at the moment). Having got that off my chest (at least for the time being) Legacy stores the back-up for your files on the same HDD as the program in C:\Legacy\Data. Unfortunately if that HDD has gone you are in trouble. Whether or not it will be on your external drive, rather depends on what you have set it up to save. I suggest that you search this drive for it. If your Family File was, say, Ferguson.fdb then the back up will be of the form “Ferguson date time.zip†in which case I would just search for the “Ferguson†bit. You may get a lot of results, but it should not be too hard to pick it out. Ron Ferguson From: Howlanddavisii Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 7:34 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Backup Of Family File Listers: My hard drive crashed last week. I always backed up my family file when exiting the file and I had an external hard drive that saved my files once a week. My question is where would the backup file be? What drive would it be in and what file name if I did not change anything from the default. Howland Davis 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
