Cindy,
I agree with Bob.
However, if you can't save backup zips to your external drive or copy
files to your external drives, unless the external drives are full, I
suspect you need to consult a computer guru. There must be something in
either your computer settings or your security software settings
interfering with that process.
If you are really working from the copy of your database on the C drive,
that is the latest version. Backups are for emergencies.
If you open it from the thumb drive then it will save to the thumb drive
as you add data and that's your latest version.
Cathy
Bob Austen <mailto:rgaus...@telus.net>
Sunday, 19 September 2021 09:22
It is normal to save your working file on your computer’s internal
hard drive.
It looks like you have saving your file to ‘Documents/Legacy Family
Tree/Data’. Is this file on your C:/ drive?
Is the C:/ drive big enough to handle your file with lots of room to
spare?
If you are using your thumb drive for your working file is that the
file that Legacy is opening/using? If you are opening your file from
your thumb drive it is likely that the file is being saved there too
so, of course, the file on C: drive would not be updated.
Legacy automatically saves the data as it is being entered (posted)
(actually, when you leave the edit screen). And it saves it to the
file that you have designated which, I assume, is C:/ Documents/Legacy
Family Tree/Data/filename.fdb You can check that by looking to the
very top of your open family tree file.
When you add/change any information in your tree it is saved each time
as you leave the edit screen. I do not understand when you say that
‘these changes are not uniformly saving to the C: drive’. It comes
back to which file are you opening and working from – the one on your
thumb drive or the one on C: drive.
I don’t think it is good practice to try to work from your backup
devices, that is, your thumb drive and/or your WD storage drive – use
those for backup. I back up my file to a thumb drive, a separate
internal drive, the cloud and an external WD storage drive but my work
is always done on my main drive in my computer. This way my latest
file is always on my computer and my backup copies are on the other
devices. Again, trying to work from your backup copy on a thumb drive
would be confusing and may be risky.
To backup I simply copy the file to my thumb drive and my second
internal drive. None of the files are compressed.
There is no need to compress the files, however that happens if you
have Legacy backup your file when you exit. Legacy does that to keep
your working copy and your backup copies separate.
Error 70 and Error 75 have different meanings on different devices.
Here it could be that your thumb drive is full. With only 456 names
your file is going to be quite small. Are you overwriting the file
each time or adding a new one?
Hope this helps.
Bob
*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Cindy
Custer
*Sent:* Saturday, September 18, 2021 4:22 PM
*To:* Legacy Family Tree Support; Legacy Users Group
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Saving Problems
*Importance:* High
I have been posting data info to my Legacy database file
(Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data) multiple times and these changes
*_are NOT_* uniformly saving to the C: drive.
Because I have not been able to do compressed Backups for the past
year,[Legacy Support worked with me for a period of nearly 2 weeks
trying to resolve that problem – but
unsuccessfully] I have been saving uncompressed backup copies to a
thumb drive _and _to a Western Digital 1TB storage drive instead.
When I re-open Legacy 9 to continue work,
I open the file from the thumb drive so that I have the previous
updated position.
Today, when I attempted to save my copy to the thumb and Western
Digital storage drives, I am receiving Error 70 for the thumb drive
and Error 75 for the Western
Digital storage drive – and they are no longer saving either. Now my
problem is severe – I can live without saving compressed backups, but
if I cannot save *_un_*compressed
files how can I continue to update my database. The database I am
using today only has 456 individuals in it.
Is this a problem only for me or is anyone else having problems saving
backup copies in other drives?
Cindy Custer <mailto:custerc...@comcast.net>
Sunday, 19 September 2021 07:21
I have been posting data info to my Legacy database file
(Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Data) multiple times and these changes
*_are NOT_* uniformly saving to the C: drive.
Because I have not been able to do compressed Backups for the past
year,[Legacy Support worked with me for a period of nearly 2 weeks
trying to resolve that problem – but
unsuccessfully] I have been saving uncompressed backup copies to a
thumb drive _and _to a Western Digital 1TB storage drive instead.
When I re-open Legacy 9 to continue work,
I open the file from the thumb drive so that I have the previous
updated position.
Today, when I attempted to save my copy to the thumb and Western
Digital storage drives, I am receiving Error 70 for the thumb drive
and Error 75 for the Western
Digital storage drive – and they are no longer saving either. Now my
problem is severe – I can live without saving compressed backups, but
if I cannot save *_un_*compressed
files how can I continue to update my database. The database I am
using today only has 456 individuals in it.
Is this a problem only for me or is anyone else having problems saving
backup copies in other drives?
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