A very big thank you to all who have helped me straighten this out, especially Dennis and Brian for his instructions on restoring my file (which I've now done) and Mike for his comment " remember that from Vista onwards, Windows tends to create ZIP files i.e. backups, as folders." I think this was the root of the problem, I've had experience in the past unzipping files but going from XP to Windows 7, I think I was lulled into a different mindset by seeing the .fdb sitting out there in the open in the zip folder and thinking I could just use it. I had accidently closed my working file and opened the one in the zip folder when prompted for which to open.
I also still believe Dropbox to be a good option and certainly didn't mean to sound like I was putting it down, I think now it was my inexperience and a coincidence that all this started at the same time. I am still not entirely clear on Dropbox but stop me if this is not the place to ask the next (I know we are only supposed to be discussing Legacy): At the moment I have everything in the C: drive Legacy folders as suggested by Dennis and Brian and set to open from that location. *if* I went back to using dropbox, would I need to have the working .fdb in the dropbox folder and direct the "set Starting Family File to Always open this file" to open the dropbox .fdb ? I can understand using dropbox as a safe off-site place to store zipped backups, but if you wanted to be able to access your current Legacy file from both PC and laptop (not both at the same time, I get that) you would need the working .fdb to be stored and opening from dropbox, have I got that right? Erica 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
