I never save anything to My Documents or My Pictures myself. I put it on a separate hard drive where I can find it. The only thing that gets saved to those two folders is what a program will put there. I'm against putting my data on the C drive. It's only good for people who don't have separate or partitioned drives. MS likes to trash everybody's drive to slow down your system so you have to upgrade.
Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: grayscot2 [mailto:graysc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 11:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Much against my will, I'm probably going to follow this for Data, if not for media, but I would like to propose that hereafter all user data be allowed to be put somewhere else besides the Microsoft categories. Doesn't anyone else resent the patronizing, over-possessive "My Documents" and "My Pictures"? It makes you want to throw up to begin with and then the contempt it shows for Windows users seals the deal. It is easy enough to copy over the necessary folder and sub-folders to a dedicated custom directory without all the other MS trash in it. Please don't do this again. ============================================================================ From: Leon Chapman [chap...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 01:30 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 8 Issues Margaret: Legacy 8 has been updated to install the software in the more traditional areas of Windows which provided enhanced security. The older version 7.5 installed at the root level of drive C at C:\Legacy\ and this by-passed the normal security built into Windows. I recommend you use the latest L8 standard for installing and saving all your new files. Legacy 8 installs its program files in C:\Program Files (x86)\ which is where they should be installed. You should not mess with any of these files in this location. The Legacy 8 user data have been moved to: C:/Users/myname/documents/Legacyfamilytree/ There are subfolders under this directory that you should use: 1. \_AppData\ -- this is where your usr settings and Books and iSearch, etc settings are stored 2. \Data\ -- This is where you should keep your Legacy 8 data files (Carter.fdb, etc) 3. \Media\ -- This is where all your pictures, pdfs, videos, etc should be placed (Note: In Legacy 7, this folder was called \Pictures\) The other 2 folders, Legacy FS and LegacyCharting are for those applications within Legacy. The only real folders you need to worry about are: 1. C:/Users/myname/documents/Legacyfamilytree/Data/ 2. C:/Users/myname/documents/Legacyfamilytree/Media/ I recommend you copy (and I mean COPY and not MOVE) your old Legacy 7 data files from: C:\Legacy\Data to the new folder: C:\Users\myname\documents\Legacyfamilytree\Data\ I recommend you copy (and I mean COPY and not MOVE) your old Legacy 7 picture files from: C:\Legacy\Pictures to the new folder: C:\Users\myname\documents\Legacyfamilytree\Media\ Note: Copy you the Legacy 7 files so you retain the original Legacy 7 files in their original location. This will allow you to run both Legacy 7 and 8 on your computer and it "sort of" provides a backup of your Legacy 7 original files. Once you open a Legacy 7 database in Legacy 8, you cannot go back to Legacy 7, unless you use a GEDCOM format. After you have copied your Legacy 7 database files and pictures to the new Legacy 8 locations, then open Legacy 8 and do a File, Open, and browse to the file and open the "Carter.fdb", in your case. It will convert your database to the new Legacy 8 format. Good luck. Leon Chapman ___ Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com ----- --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com 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
