Legacy will use whatever path Windows says is the location of your My
Documents for the location of your Legacy Family Tree\_AppData folder.
The Legacy installer asks Windows where My docs in located then creates
the Legacy Family Tree folder in that location. On first start up of
Legacy by a new user on the system a similar process creates a new set
of Legacy folders in the new user's My Documents folder.
It is very interesting that New Windows 10 computers use One Drive in
the user's path, especially considering that I was recently advised by
One Drive that Microsoft is going to reduce the allowed storage for One
Drive in the near future. Free accounts will only allow 5 GB of data, it
was 15 GB. Amounts above 5 GB must be paid for with a subscription or by
paying for a Office 365 license.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 25-May-16 11:52 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
Confirmed by Microsoft just this morning: Files save to OneDrive by default in
Windows 10
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-in-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7?wt.mc_id=rm_onedrive_default-save-location_bodycopy-here
<https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-in-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7?wt.mc_id=rm_onedrive_default-save-location_bodycopy-here&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US>
&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
In comparing my new computer against some other Windows 10 computers that were
UPGRADED instead of a CLEAN install, there is no OneDrive in the file path for
the Users\Documents on the UPGRADED systems.
What this means is that the old file path most of us are used to
“C:\Users\YourName\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData” may now appear to
users doing a clean install as:
“C”\Users\YourName\OneDrive\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData”
What’s not yet clear to me if it’s the installation of Microsoft Office on my
computer that forced this new default location or if it happens to all NEW
installation doing a CLEAN install instead of an upgrade in place. The fact
that the above URL is a MS Office Support web page, leads me to believe that it
may be the existence of Office that does this dirty trick. I know most users
running Windows 10 that were upgraded do NOT have the OneDrive in the Documents
path. I even got an email from Microsoft this morning saying welcome to One
Drive…you’ve chosen to take advantage of OneDrive…. I did no such thing. I
think it’s being forced by MS just like the GetWindows10 downloads.
So far, Legacy seems happy with dealing with a file path that contains OneDrive
for all the “_AppData” --- something that caught Legacy support by surprise.
With multiple versions of Windows 10 now in use and the upgrade differing from
the clean installs, who knows where this leads.
Let the games begin.
Brian in CA
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Cathy Pinner
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 8:48 PM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs
Brian,
Check where your Windows Documents is located. Has it been located in One
Drive? One Drive used to have its own Documents folder separate to the default
Windows Documents folder but maybe it's different in Windows 10? I'm using
Windows 10 but haven't used One Drive on it yet.
Legacy uses the Windows Document folder where ever that is located.
Note Sherry has given the default location of the Documents folder but it can
be moved if you use the proper methods.
Mine is simply D:\Documents
I've similarly moved the Windows Pictures folder to D:\Pictures but this time I've
left the Desktop at c:\<user name>\Desktop ;-)
Cathy
Sherry/Support wrote:
Your data and media files and web pages can be anywhere you want them.
Default is in c:\<user name>\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\
< BR> Everything else in the Documents\Legacy Family Tree\folder has to be
there.... it can't be moved. That's where the program will look for
the _AppData and other files and if it's moved, then it will just be
recreated on c:\.
Y
our media files can be on the hard drive and not in the OneDrive folder.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot
<br...@the-lightfoots.com
<mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com%20%3cmailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com>
<mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com>> wrote:
Just built myself a new computer system and decided to give
Windows 10 a second chance with a clean install. So far, I’m happy
with the revised Windows 10 but when I re-installed Legacy
something strange happened.____
____
I had saved my complete cus tom data and media location folder from
my previous install and copied onto the new system (it is all on a
different drive than the C: drive; the program itself was
installed to the usual default location on the C: drive.) I ran
the new Legacy and pointed it towards my custom location for the
family file. Everything is there. However in checking my
customization options, I noticed the following strange things.____
__ __
Items 6.1 through 6.3 were all pointing towards
C:\Users\(name)\OneDrive\Documents\LegacyFamilyTree\_AppData\ with
the final sub-folder being “Data” for 6.1 Family File, “Media” for
6.2 Media Files, and “Temp” for 6.3 Temp files. ____
__ __
& nbsp; Notice the “OneDrive” in the path.____
__ __
I know the OneDrive was not part of the Win7 OS and that Win10
gives users “free 15 GB” of cloud storage called “OneDrive” but
maybe I fell asleep at the switch and didn’t realize that Legacy
would attempt to set up the cloud storage for file locations by
default. Previously it was set up for the Legacy created
“_AppData” folders in the User folders.____
__ __
Clicking on the RESET button for each item did not change
anything. And clicking on the Options button at the bottom for
Legacy Defaults or User Defaults did not change anything. (I am
capable of manually changing the path to eliminate the “OneDrive”
&nb sp; reference from each thus reverting to the “old” path that I am
accustomed to and moving the necessary files to the usual
location.)____
__ __
Did my system somehow burp on this install or was there a change
in Legacy’s defaults of File Locations for Win10 installations? My
75 GB of media files will never fit on the “free” OneDrive from
MS.____
__ __
__ __
Brian in CA____
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