Hi, I've been researching about 25 years and the key to it is BACK-UP and BACK-UP thee back-ups. I do this at least every 30 min or so. I know its a pain, but it will save both time and your hard efforts. 5 min doing this will save years of hard work.
Art Womer Tampa, FL On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Sue Jamieson <suejamiesonar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I commiserate with you. I also had the experience of my computer locking > up, yesterday, when I was in the middle of researching and editing with > Legacy. Everything completely froze, no mouse, no anything. I had to shut > down the computer and reboot four times before I could get everything up > and running again. I thought it was a computer problem unique with me. > Perhaps not. I do believe everything I had been working on was saved, but > I did find myself in a mad scramble for about 45 minutes of trying to get > everything operational again. I wonder what was going on? I do hope all > of your work was not lost. I love this program. I just started two weeks > ago on researching my ancestors and have so enjoyed it. > > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:03 AM, Jean Gobel <jcgo...@msn.com> wrote: > >> I am upset. I spent perhaps nine hours yesterday on events for just two >> people - me and my late husband - researching, locating, developing >> sources >> (I do not use the source writer), entering source detail documentation; >> scanning and entering pictures and documents. I was so proud of myself, >> our >> event screens were full of sacramental records, military happenings, >> retirements, anniversaries, and of course, his obituary, Each event had >> icons showing sources and media attached. I minimized Legacy to the task >> bar so I could write a letter, was unable to print it because the curser >> was >> not moving. OK, put new batteries in the mouse. Still no movement. Maybe >> the keyboard has batteries. Replaces those. No movement. Cannot close >> the >> letter. Cannot close anything. Totally locked up. So I turned it off. >> Rebooted, and all was well. Except all my day's work had disappeared, as >> well as some events I had done several days ago. Now I am not the most >> tech >> savvy - I call my granddaughter when I have tech problems - but I've never >> lost things like this before. Why did Legacy not save my work? >> Jean Gobel >> >> >> -- >> >> 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/ >> > > > > -- > Sue Jamieson > www.suejamiesonhealingarts.com > > The Highland Center for Health and Healing > Worcester, Vermont 05682 > > -- > > 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/ > > -- Art Womer art...@gmail.com
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