Correct, but Legacy pre V8 was actually breaking Windows standards by installing itself into C:\Legacy because that way it could install your data files in the same structure.
With V8 it is now following Windows standards, and had to put the data files elsewhere. Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hayes Sent: 03 February 2017 15:13 To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Big Question On 2 Feb 2017 at 23:36, Robert57P_gmail wrote: > One problem you may have run into with Legacy 6 and Win7: Windows 7 > "protects" some of the folders that used to be open. By default, the > older Legacy versions (I forget when they changed it) used to install > in some of these folders that are now "protected". No, it is the NEW Legacy version (8 and above) that by default installs itself into protected folders. I still have Legacy 7.5 on my computer, and it is installed in E:\Legacy\ with the data files in E:\Legacy\Data and pictures in E:\Legacy\pictures I routinely copied these backwards and forwards between my desktop computer (running Windows XP) and my laptop computer (running Windows 7) with no problems, just a simple batch file did it. Legacy 8, by default, installs itself inder C:\Program Files\ which IS a directory protected by Windows, and doesn't allow data files to be kept under it (as the older versions of Legacy did), so it keeps data files under the My Documents folder,.wherever that may be. I set up Legacy 8 differently, to install its program files into E:\Legacy8 and its data files in E:\Leg8Data That makes it easier for me to copy the data files to a USB flash drive to transfer to my Laptop. And those directories, like the ones created by older version of Legacy, are not protected by Windows. But the \Program Files\ one is. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
