Your explanation is helping me "get there" in my understanding. Here is the way I described the "two ways to access" in an earlier post here:
> It almost seems to me like there are two ways to access Legacy on my laptop: > one, the Legacy 6.0 icon, which when hovering over, says, Location: Legacy > (C:\Legacy) and then there is this link that is there that I have never > knowingly used, that is labeled familytreewip.fdb but when hovering over says > Type: Legacy Genealogy Software, 12.7 MB, and has today's date as the date > modified (because I opened Legacy with that icon awhile ago when I realized > it was there). The one I refer to as having gotten there without my knowledge is not a shortcut. And I do believe it got there as you describe here. Through the years, I always opened Legacy by clicking on my desktop shortcut (what I call the Legacy Icon) to the program. I have opened it many times through the time I wasn't doing active research, to reference something mainly, and within the last three years to add the death information about three of our parents. It always saved on the fly, as I exited, and I additionally chose to Backup as I exited, when given the choice, and that's when I back up to a zip file, stored in My Documents, but I have never used any of those zip files. It always opened up with everything having been saved, until I apparently inadvertently opened it from that "stray" copy of the file. Once I get the right one open (which I expect will be correct except for my FIL death information, which I can easily re-input), do I understand correctly that I should double check to make sure the family file is being saved in C:\Legacy\Data and then is it safe to delete that one I refer to as "stray" (the one that says familytreewip.fdb)? Barbara Sent from my iPad > On Jan 25, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > >> On 25/01/2016 14:07, Barbara Ford wrote: >> So, asking a simplistic basic question here, as I try to figure out >> how this happened, and before I take my nervous self to the computer >> this morning to try to "fix" this: Does it appear that I in effect >> have two installations of Legacy on my computer (one that I access >> through the Legacy icon, the one I THOUGHT I always used), and the >> other that somehow showed up as a link on my desktop that I must have >> used to access the program at least once, like three days ago when I >> input my FIL information). Because if it's just two ways to access >> the same program, why wouldn't it save all the data, no matter which >> location I accessed the program from? > > > You probably don't have two installations of Legacy, just two copies of > your Family File. If you double-click on a Family File in Windows > Explorer or on the Desktop Legacy will open and show that file. You > could have several copies of the same Family File stored in different > places and double-clicking any of them would open the program with that > particular copy of the file showing. When you are working on the file, > the data you enter will be automatically saved to that same file, > wherever it is saved. > > You have used several different terms for what is stored on your > desktop. What you are seeing could be a Family File, could be a folder > containing a Family File (I don't think it is), or could be a shortcut > to a Family File which is stored somewhere else on your computer. If it > was a shortcut the icon would include a little curved arrow. > > It is most likely a copy of your Family File. A likely way it ended up > on your desktop is that you maybe had some computer trouble at some time > and someone (you or a helper) copied your family file to the desktop so > it would be "safe" and not get removed while work was being done to fix > your computer. > > Back a few years when you were regularly using Legacy, how did you open > the program and your Family File? I expect you either opened the Legacy > program and your Family File was loaded automatically, or you located > the Family File and double-clicked on it. That's fine! But if at some > time recently you opened the program by double-clicking on a Family File > stored on your desktop, Legacy might have "remembered" that and opened > the same file next time. That depends on how your options are set up, > but many people have Legacy set up to automatically load the last Family > File they worked on. > > I hope this clarifies the situation for you. > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > > 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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