Ellaine: I have been using a memory stick for 5 years & have never lost any data. I have run them thru many X-ray machines at airports & have not had any problems.
I would be very skeptical of the story about the filing cabinet & the lose of data. The memory sticks are not meant to be long term storage devices, so I would not store information on the stick and leave it in a filing cabinet for say 5-10 years -- use a CD or DVD for that. Chap Leon Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellaine Goodall Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Correspondence Tracking Dear Brian: I am new to Legacy but recently I attended a local genealogy seminar and they were talking about the memory sticks which you put into the USB Port. One girl said that she always had all of her data with her at all times this way and wore it around her neck--another said that she kept it on her key chain. So I went out and bought one because one always thinks about what would happen if one lost all of this work. I was not able to get it to work and so called tech support. Tech support asked my why I had pruchased it and I told him the above. He said that they were not created for that purpose and that if exposed to certain frequences all of the data would be erased. He said that an employee put one in a filing cabinet and evidently some current was running under the cabinet and when he went to use it it was blank. Has anyone else run into this problem? I was very disappointed as these sticks seemed like such a good solution. Ellaine Goodall E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
