Steve, Paul is correct. Your desktop and laptops using Dropbox have a folder that is called Dropbox. Anything you save there is synchronized to the cloud Dropbox server. Anything synced to the cloud server from one computer is also synced to your other devices. If you are offline in a library, you have access to your Legacy files from the Dropbox folder on your laptop. The next time you are online with that laptop, Dropbox will sync your changes in your local folder with the cloud server, and likewise, with your other devices.
The key is to make sure that no one, you or your wife, access that Legacy file until the changes you made while offline are synced with the cloud. If she were to make changes online at home while you are making changes offline, when you get back online, your updates may overwrite hers, or worse, the whole database get corrupted. My team are distant cousins working on the same database. We use Skype to determine if the others are online (in our case, we never use TMG when offline). If I see someone is booted up, as indicated in Skype, I text or call them before I boot TMG on my computer to confirm if they have TMG open. We all agreed to set Skype to always boot when we turn on our computers so that we can rely on the Skype indicators. If no one else has their computers showing active in Skype, I can open TMG. This would work with Legacy as well, except in your case where you are offline in the library, but you could open Legacy to look at data, just don't make any changes, then you don't have to worry about overwriting your wife's changes. Maybe we should rename this thread to Using Dropbox with Legacy. Jamie On 1/22/2016 9:41 PM, Steve Hayes wrote: > On 22 Jan 2016 at 6:03, Sherry/Support wrote: > >> You can store the Family File in the cloud, but the program itself has >> to be installed under Windows or a Windows emulator. > One way of doing it is by using Dropbox. > > You can keep your Legacy data files in a Dropbox directory. I have done this > with Rootsmagic, where my wife and I access the data files from desktop or > laptop computers. It is best to turn Bropbox syncing off when actually > working on the file, and to make sure that one is only working in it on one > computer at a time. > > This would probably work with Legacy v 7.5 or earlier, but would be awkward > with Legacy 8.x, which has a different default method of storing data files. > As a result of that I transfer the Legacy data from my desktop to my laptop > with a USB flash drive, and every time I change I have to do the "Restore > User Defaults" routine. But I still back the data file up to Dropbox. > > > > 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
