That's all good information to know and pretty much what I've been trying to
say. Legacy users can continue to save their family file and media file to
wherever they want. Even with the change that Microsoft has made to brand
new clean installs (not Upgrades) of Windows 10, the addition of the extra
folder named "OneDrive" in their default Windows Users/Documents folder,
actually changes nothing. As you previously pointed out, when Legacy is
installed to such systems, it merely creates the "Legacy Family Tree" folder
wherever Windows told it was the Users Documents folder----which now has the
OneDrive name in the path. It makes no difference to Legacy and I've since
found out it hasn't made any difference to other programs that I've
installed.

And as several other users have pointed out, just because their default
Users Documents folder has OneDrive in the path, they do NOT have to
actually use OneDrive. Nothing is automatically uploaded to the cloud unless
the user chooses to run the OneDrive app.

The only real change is that Legacy Support personnel now have to realize
that there are two different file paths that users may have for the files
that Legacy installs into the Users Documents folder. This includes the USR
files, Color Schemes, Dictionaries, etc.

It's all business as usual.


Brian in CA


-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Brian/Support
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 5:50 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File locations on new installs

Here is an extract from a Microsoft Support Article
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Files-save-to-OneDrive-by-default-i
n-Windows-10-33da0077-770c-4bda-b61e-8c8e8ca70ac7
on how to set your own defaults if you do not want to have all your files
saved to OneDrive by default:

"Use the OneDrive app settings to change where your files are saved by
default.

     In the Notifications area at the bottom of your Windows screen,
right-click the OneDrive icon and click Settings. You might have to click
Show hidden icons to find OneDrive.

    <Graphic displayed here that I did not copy, it showed the OneDrive Icon
in the user's notifications area>

     In the Settings box, on the Auto save tab, under Documents and
Pictures, click the list at Documents or Pictures and pick the default save
location you want.

         This PC only - When you create a file, the Documents or Pictures
folder under This PC is the first-choice location offered to save it. The
file is not saved to OneDrive unless you do so separately, and it is
available only on the PC you used to save it.

         OneDrive - When you create a file, the first location offered is
within the Documents or Pictures folder under OneDrive. Because these
folders sync to your PC, files you save there are available on your PC, even
when it's not connected to the Internet. And you can use any device with an
Internet connection to access your files.

Note: No matter which default setting you choose, you still can select the
save location you want each time you save a file. When you click Save for
new files or Save As for existing files, click OneDrive or This PC and then
pick a folder to save your file to."

So yes the change may be done by Windows 10 but the users do still control
their own destiny.

Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com


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