Hi Donna, Doing a backup won't affect the Legacy files. The backup file is a separate .zip file. In addition the backup creates a separate media.zip file. To open it you have to 'restore' the file in Legacy (File/Restore File).
You should check you USB drive to see if those two files are there - if so, then the backup was successful. The media files would not have been affected in any way unless, possibly, you tried to restore the backup to the same computer. Even then they should still be on your hard drive. So, your Legacy 7 file should still be intact - including the media files. You will have to let us know a little bit more of what you did. Firstly, you said you did a backup to your USB drive. Did you then open Legacy 8 and try to restore the file? I don't remember if this is possible. What is probably better is to open your Legacy 7 file (.fdb) using Legacy 8 and give it a different name. Legacy 8 will then convert the file to the new format. Bob From: Donna Newell [mailto:djnewel...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 8:23 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error 507 Then where is a safe place to do a backup? I did it on the usb drive and my media didn't come over. Now I have to figure out how to find the media and re hook it up, tried the media re linker and it didn't find any of the pictures. All I wanted to do was create a separate file of my Legacy 7 file and see how it would work on Legacy 8. Now I am all messed up. Sometimes technology just gets the best of me. Sent from my iPad On Jul 10, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Rune Mattsson <rune.matts...@gmail.com> wrote: I personally should not save importent data as a back up on a USB drive, and especially not on an NTFS formatted such. I changed once PC and moved several 100 photos with a portable USB HDD and many photos were damaged, some were completely destroyed, others had strokes and lines, or were discolored. I have heard that an NTFS formatted USB unit is more sensitive to interruptions and a Legacy Back Up is a zipped file which means that if a single bit or byte gets wrong then probably the whole file is destroyed. 2015-07-09 19:21 GMT+02:00 Donna Newell <djnewel...@gmail.com>: Thank you so much Mike. I reformatted the thumb drive with NTFS and it worked like a charm. I am so glad someone is out there looking out for all of us. Donna -----Original Message----- From: MikeFry [mailto:emjay...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 5:22 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error 507 On 2015/07/09 00:07 AM, Donna Newell wrote: > I was trying to save to a 16gig empty thumb drive. Did you read the last paragraph? The error will also occur if attempting to save a backup file greater than 4gb on a disk formatted with the FAT32 file system. You must use the NTFS disk format if files are larger than 4gb. Alternately, all of our backup programs allow you to save the backup file in smaller 'chunks' to avoid the 4gb limit of FAT32. -- Regards, Mike Fry (Jhb) 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
