Hi Peter,
I am not sure how much you know so please forgive me if this is a bit like
teaching grandmother to suck eggs!
When you add an entry to your Legacy file this is stored at that time in the
open fdb file. Eg. if you named your file "peterholmes" then your entries
will be stored automatically in peterholmes.fdb. This is usually stored in
C:\Legacy\Data (assuming you used the defaults to install the Legacy
program).
When finished and you back up, the whole file is then stored in zip file -
"peterholmes.zip" providing you gave it that name when you first created it.
Again if your used the defaults it will be found in C:\Legacy\Data. When you
backup you are given the choice as to whether or not to overwrite.
Personally I overwrite to avoid future confusion.
The back file can be brought into use by using File>Restore. However a word
of caution. To restore you must create an .fdb file and then save to it, so
do ensure that you do not give it the file name you are currently using or
it will overwrite this file.
Hope this helps.
Ron Ferguson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "LegacyUserGroup" <[email protected]>
Sent: 25 November 2005 16:29
Subject: [LegacyUG] Another test
G'day again (in plain text via my address book)
Peter H
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G'day from Perth Western Australia,
I'm brand new to this list but have been transcribing most of my
accumulated
data onto Legacy Std 5 (converted to 6 yesterday) for the lat 4 months.
All appeared to be going well until about 5 weeks ago when I noticed -
when
printing a descendents report - a duplication of names covering about 3
generations. Because I could not solve it my self and my local "Legacy
mentor" was otherwise committed elsewhere I stopped inputting on the main
family but I did add to some non affected (in law) families.
We've had another look at the main family & it and it appears to have been
caused by giving one wife of my main family the same husband twice. That
has
now I hope been rectified.
During the 5 weeks I attempted to back up and I don't think that it worked
as it should. I say this because I know that certain in law ancestral data
was transcribed but is now no longer shown in the updated format.
A further complication is that during some data entry Legacy software
"complained" about what I was doing and the system shut itself down. On
reopening I (perhaps) dealt with another branch of the in law tree and did
not notice any problems.
I wonder if what might have happened is that as a result of EITHER the
backups not being processed as expected or the "crashes" the "backed up"
version of the main fdb file is occasionally opened up and then I input
some
data to it. If there is a second file, I cannot locate it.
QUESTION - is it expected that the back up process creates one
or more versions of the file & if so have others experienced this possible
system opens various versions of the file?
QUESTION - although when adding/creating data in one of the
personal or event windows we press "save" is this a total (or "hard")
save
or just a simply a "soft" save to allow us to move onto the next window?
I had gone into the "customise" windows a few days ago to see what could
be
done and to set my own requirements, so perhaps I'd altered something that
has influenced this non retention of data.
Any constructive suggestions will be appreciated.
Peter Holmes
Western Australia
(HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Pinchbeck, Donington and then
Leicestershire),
DAVISON (Donington), RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Gosberton, Gosberton Clough)
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