If I understand correctly, Legacy will open your data according to where you have told it to open... or where you last opened it from. If you saved your data to a thumb drive, then opened the data from the thumb drive (such as to confirm the data is indeed there), Legacy may be thinking you have transferred your data to the thumb drive and therefore the thumb drive is now where you want to work from when starting. This is standard for many software programs, not just Legacy and not just genealogy programs. Many programs automatically open where it was last told the data was located -- in this case, your thumb drive.
With Legacy open, if you go to FILE in upper left, you can relocate the "working" data file you wish to use. You should know where your data is stored on your computer and therefore can locate it from this window. If you do not know where it is, now is a good time to do so. This is how you can find it: (Be sure your thumb drive is NOT connected.) After clicking FILE this new window opens. If you DO see your data file on the right side of that window, make note of where it is located by writing down the path from the address bar near the top. If you do NOT see your data file on the right side of that window, scroll the left side up or down to COMPUTER and click once to highlight COMPUTER (or if you have multiple drives on your computer and know which drive your data is in, click the appropriate drive). After that, click once in the SEARCH BOX in the upper right of this window. In the SEARCH BOX, enter the name of your data file and ENTER; this will start a search of your computer to find your data file. You are looking for a TYPE OF FILE called Legacy Genealogy Software with a DATE MODIFIED of probably last night (or when last you indeed opened your working data). When you find it, make note of the location by writing down the path from the address bar near the top. You can click on this data file and Legacy will now open it. After doing this, let's check to be sure the correct default location is entered in Legacy. Do this by: At the top, click OPTIONS>CUSTOMIZE and a new window will open. In this new window, click the LOCATIONS tab. In the LOCATIONS tab, the top blank/box will be the Default Location of family files. Confirm the correct location is in this box (you should have made note where the "working" files are from the previous steps). If the correct location is in this box, you are done; Click SAVE or CANCEL at the bottom to exit. If the correct location is NOT in this box, use the CHANGE button to the right to enter the correct file path, then click SAVE at the bottom to save your changes and exit. Now go to OPTIONS>CUSTOMIZE; in the GENERAL tab choose how you desire the program to startup. You can choose the view and the starting family. You can also choose to "Always open this file" which may be what you desire if you only work with one family file. Exit completely out of Legacy and reopen. Your working data file should now open for you. In the future, when you want to save to your thumb drive instead of to the default backup file, go to FILE>SAVE AS> YES and continue to save to your thumb drive. BE SURE to give this thumb drive file an alternate name so you know it is the "save as" file and not your "working" file. Such as, if your "working" file is SMITH FAMILY then maybe the file saved to the thumb drive could be "SMITH FAMILY saved to thumb drive". It may be a bit unorthodox, but at least you know by looking at the file that it originated from your SMITH FAMILY file, but is not the "working" file so you don't confuse the two files. I hope this helps. Lana -----Original Message----- From: MJ SA Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 9:13 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy problems I am so over this program! I have set Legacy to open up with my family tree. Now I am spending the little time I have (I am disabled) trying to find where Legacy put my family tree. Last night when I opened Legacy, my family tree opened automatically. this is happening too many times. How can I find my family tree, the one that opened last night when I opened Legacy? On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Mike Fry <emjay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2012/11/22 19:03, MJ SA wrote: > >> Why is it every time I back up my family tree onto a thumb drive, the >> next day when I open legacy, my family tree is not there? This >> happens all the time. How do I find the family tree that I set to >> open every time I open legacy. > > Because Legacy can't directly open a backup? > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg (g) > > > > 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). 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