Steve & Julie, I use my USB Flash drive as my DATA drive and do all my work from it. My Legacy Database is located on the USB Flash drive and ONLY on my USB Flash drive. I do regular backups of my USB drive to my desktop computer's hard drive.
This has been discussed in past emails on this list. You can go back to the archives and search for how I setup my directory structure to make it easier. I keep my images (as small thumbnail type .jpg's) on my USB Flash drive as well. I have all my data with me when I go to the FHC or a family member's house. With my method, there is NO jockeying of files from one machine to the other. Current space used by my database & images is 217 MB. I do keep much more on my USB Flash drive, so I do have a 2GB drive. Glen Ballard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 8:44 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] confusing myself w/ 2 machines On 13 Apr 2006 at 22:16, J. Michutka wrote: > I recently got a 3rd-hand laptop (college daughter's cast-off when she > upgraded) in addition to my desktop computer. I put Legacy on the laptop > (it's also on my desktop at home) so that I can take it along when I'm doing > research. Transferred copies of my files, etc, everything went ok. My plan > was that every time I made an addition/change to one copy of a Legacy family > file, I'd back it up and transfer it to the other machine. > > OK, you can guess, I didn't......I made different changes to my favorite > family file on each machine, without first updating/backing up. Musta been > brain-dead when I did that! How do I get this file to be identical on both > machines again, each having the changes I made in the other copy? Decide which one you made the most changes on, and keep that. Print out the changes you made in the other copy, and then enter them into the first one. I do what you do. I hopy my Legacy datafiles from my laptop to my desktop and back again, usian a USB flash drive, sometimes twice a day, and occasionally I've forgotten to do so, or the files didn't copy properly, and I've entered it in the wrong one. And then I've had to retype the information, though in some cases I was able to copy/paste via a third program (like Treepad). -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
