Brian, you bring up an excellent point with the auto backups! That has happened to me and I honestly don't know if I've lost any data because of it or not. I don't even know how long I just clicked to go forward and realized months later that it had been backing up to the wrong place. I just happened to glance at it and realized it was wrong. I backup to dropbox BTW and then copy that to an external drive (or two) every month or two. Well, now I do :-) I hope your comment causes some others to glance at the backup location every time just to be safe.
Kathy On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot < br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: > I’m sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there > is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance > of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup. > > > > Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked > in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have > backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also > changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My > Documents…. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other > program on the C: drive. That’s the target of any virus so I move data to a > different drive. OK, so I’m paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do > when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive > were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive > designation. And on my next forced backup, I made sure I changed the > location. Guess I was too quick to click the mouse for the past month and > never noticed the location had changed. I’ll watch this on the next update > to see if it happens again. > > > > Brian in CA > > > > > > *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:21 AM > *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! > > > > Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't > really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put > it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back > up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection). > > > > Tessa > > > *Tessa Keough* > > *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered > ONS* > > *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* > > *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot < > br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: > > This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short > Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two > such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. > > > > I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. > I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted > instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous > locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. > > > > While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 > and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I > started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not > live that long. > > > > I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. > Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census > images and they are still there in the media folder. > > > > By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. > > > > > > Brian in CA > > > > > > *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM > *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! > > > > Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there > some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole > lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more > concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? > > > > Tessa > > > *Tessa Keough* > > *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered > ONS* > > *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* > > *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * > > > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer <kmeyer2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Soooo sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize > with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through > every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it > The fastest way possible. > > > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot < > br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: > > I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location > List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there > were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one > and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that > location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and > ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no > other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately > 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. > > > > I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my > work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong > location and edit each one individually. > > > > I think I just take 2 aspirins. > > > > > > Brian in CA > > > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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