I will keep this short ! I am not a DropBox user. I keep my backups here on my computer, just waiting for a hard drive failure. I use the Amazon Cloud. Look it up. I Backup to it ! probably two times a week.
Tim On 6/27/2011 9:31 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > Because I was about to spend about a week away from home and wanted to > work on my family file while away - I keep a copy of Legacy on the > computer I use when here - I used Dropbox to pass Legacy from home to > here. I copied the entire Legacy folder into Dropbox (in one "pass", not > folder by folder) and having updated Legacy here to the latest version, I > copied the Legacy folder from Dropbox over it. > > I was somewhat surprised - to put it mildly! - when I tried to open my > family file and it wasn't there! I went back to the Dropbox folder > containing the Legacy folder and sure enough, nearly all the files > relating to my current family file were absent! The folder actually > *should* contain the files relating to 5 different "savings" of my family > file, as I have saved it and started with a renamed copy every few months. > 3 of the 5 databases are complete, but of the most recent 2 (dated 18 Jan > and 07 May this year) only the .NC and .TC files are there. > > As I was working on the 07 May file on Saturday night, closed it down > normally and copied the Legacy folder on Sunday morning there is no reason > to suppose the full version is happily residing on my home computer, but I > won't half be relieved when I go home and satisfy myself that it is! > > I'm totally baffled, though, how files could just vanish like that. > Although when I upgraded from an old computer to a new one a few weeks > ago, I also found that several files, sometimes whole sub-folders had > somehow failed to copy across. The moral of that story is *hang on to > your old computer until you are QUITE sure you have retrieved everything*! > Luckily, I have! > > 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
