Hi Paul, Thanks more making this clearer for me, I didn't understand before if the automatic screen 'saves' in Legacy would be getting transferred to the dropbox website and was wondering if a slow or interrupted internet connection would create a problem, but if the interaction is all on my PC until the programme is closed that would remove the worry of the saves not transferring quickly enough. Thanks for your help, I understand the process a lot more now, Cheers Erica
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Gray [mailto:grayp...@telus.net] Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 9:37 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Legacy fdb in Dropbox was RE: [LegacyUG] some of my notes have disappeared Erica, Since this is still about using Legacy, I hope it will be ruled on topic Your last line said 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? Yes, this is essentially correct. However, to be precise, you put the .fdb file in the Dropbox folder on your local PC, and while you are using Legacy you are still interacting with your local PC. Only when you close Legacy will the updated fdb file be uploaded to the Dropbox website for 1) backup, and 2) synchronization with other computers if you choose. And, yes it is very important not only to use Legacy on one computer at a time, one must allow Dropbox to sync files after booting up the computer before opening Legacy, or you could still get conflicted files. All I did was move my Legacy Data folder to Dropbox, I left everything else in C:\Legacy. Paul Gray 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
