RE: [LegacyUG] charting re-install

[David E. Damouth]

At 07:00 AM 5/6/2009, Syble Glasscock wrote:
I am on high speed, but I'm
confused, why would the original Legacy 7 go into Drive E as I specified
and then Charting go into a different drive
"C"?
The assumption is that your Charting program on C: is left over from some
earlier installation of an older version.
In this type of situation,  it pays to be fairly thorough and
heavy-handed in cleaning up the leftovers from the past and from botched
installation attempts *before* doing a new clean installation.
a:  Use the Window Control Panel  "Add or Remove
Programs" utility to remove any Legacy programs that appear in its
list.  This isn't perfect - sometimes old programs still exist
without having an entry in this list.
b:  Then do a global search for any files with "Legacy" in
the name.  If any of these found files are in a program installation
folder, go to that folder and see if it contains a program name something
like "uninstall.exe".  If you find such any such
Legacy-related uninstall programs, try to run them (double-click on the
file name).   
c:  Then using the results from the above search, manually move any
Legacy data files to a safe location where you can find them again if
needed, and delete any other files and folders with Legacy in the
name.
d:  After all the above is done,  run a good Registry cleanup
program.   I like the one in JV16

 but there are other good ones too.   This will remove,
among other things, all the orphaned Registry entries concerning the (now
non-existent) Legacy program.   It's a good idea to run a
registry cleaner a couple times year in any case.  It can help avoid
all sorts of obscure and hard-to-diagnose problems.
e:  Now you can download and install Legacy 7 with some assurance
that all will go well.  When the installer shows you *where* it will
install the new program, stop and think about where you really want it
installed, and change the install location if appropriate.  
You won't be asked separately abut Legacy Charting - that's all
predetermined and automatic.
And of course, before you do any of the above, make sure you have a
recent complete backup of everything on your computer that you care
about. 

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RE: [LegacyUG] charting re-install

[David E. Damouth]

At 01:22 AM 5/6/2009, ronald ferguson wrote:
If you must install from the Disc
you *must* uninstall first.
And that's another Legacy bug.  If the program won't install cleanly
on top of an older version, any decent installer program will check for
pre-existing installations and either offer to uninstall them
automatically, or will halt and tell the user to manually uninstall them
before restarting the installer.

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Re: [LegacyUG] charting

[David E. Damouth]

On my system, Legacy Charting was automatically installed in its own folder 
within the Legacy program folder.  My default install location for programs is 
G:\Programs\ and that's where I installed Legacy 7.So my Legacy Charting 
executable is at G:\Programs\Legacy\LegacyCharting\LegacyCharting.exe.
Substitute your own path to Legacy.  Charting works fine for me.

What is your system's default program installation path (the place that the 
installer automatically tries to install all programs which use this standard 
convention)?  Is it C:\Program Files (the Microsoft default), or did you change 
it to E:\xxx?   If you didn't change the Windows default, perhaps that's why 
LegacyCharting is looking in C:. Although if I remember right, Legacy is 
one of the very few programs that violates Windows standard program install 
rules and tries to install  at the root level of the system partition (usually 
C:\) rather than in the  Windows program install location as defined in the 
Registry (C:\Program Files\, unless you've changed it).  

Oh - one minor annoyance about my install:   I keep my Legacy Data in a 
LegacyData folder within the My Documents folder, where it is automatically 
backed up daily along with all my other documents and data.  But Legacy doesn't 
seem to remember that - it always points by default to the Data folder within 
the Legacy program folder, which isn't generally included in automatic backups.

I wish Legacy provided a user setting that could change the default data 
folder.  It also should remember the last place it got data and use that by 
default until the user tells it to go elsewhere.


At 09:25 AM 5/5/2009, Syble Glasscock wrote:

>I have Legacy 7 with the last update, it is installed on "E" drive.  I wanted 
>to try the Charting, and I get an error message saying the path cannot be 
>found and it's using the path of "C:".  I rechecked on Legacy and it is 
>installed on "E" drive, and "Charting" was installed when I originally 
>upgraded to version 7 from the CD, so I assume it is on "E" drive also, I 
>don't know to check the location of Charting.
>Any suggestions on what the problem is.
>Thanks,
>Syble Glasscock

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RE: [LegacyUG] Travelling with Legacy

[David E. Damouth]

Gayle wrote:
>I am planning a research trip and would like to have my Legacy information 
>with me but I will not be able to take a laptop.  Is it possible to put the 
>program and my information on a USB port and use it on someone else's computer?

You might consider using Legacy to create one or more websites with all your 
information.  You could upload the site to the Internet and access it from any 
computer that has a browser.  Rootsweb has free accounts if you don't have your 
own site somewhere else.   Or you could put the folder of website files on a 
USB flash drive and access that from a browser on any computer with a USB port. 
  

I find it useful to make and save several websites of different types 
(ancestor, descendant, etc), starting with different people.  Depending on the 
type of research you are doing,  one or another of these sites will be more 
convenient to use.   At the top level of Legacy, click the Internet tab, then 
click "Create Web Pages" and follow the instructions. The built-in Help 
document is indeed helpful.

You wouldn't be able to add to or change your information.  But at least you 
could view it all, and make notes for entry into Legacy when you get back home. 


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Re: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM Issue

[David E. Damouth]

I you're using SourceWriter,  each master source has a
check box at the bottom of its edit window labeled "Exclude from
Reports".  Perhaps the one's you are missing have that box
checked?
At 08:21 PM 4/17/2009, s...@cox.net wrote:
 Anyone have an idea what I
have done wrong and a suggested solution to have all 299 sources get
pulled into the GEDCOM.


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Re: [LegacyUG] Exporting to a new Family File

[David E. Damouth]

The choice of resetting or retaining these dates should be a user option when 
exporting to a new family file. 

At 07:03 AM 3/9/2009, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
>There is a way around it ... have the programmers change the code to
>copy these dates to the new database. Is there any advantage to *NOT*
>copying these dates?
>
>I hope you submitted this suggestion.

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Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries, Newspapers, File ID

[David E. Damouth]

At 01:34 PM 3/7/2009, Frances wrote:
>I am trying to  reduce my paper files. I was thinking about tossing out those 
>things that I have transcribed e.g. Obituaries, newspaper articles and census 
>recordings. ie those things that are easily accessible these days (but not 
>birth, marriage and death certs). Any thoughts on this.

I see no reason to save *any* paper documents, unless you are the custodian of 
a one-of-a-kind public archive.  On the rare occasions when you need the paper 
in the future, you can print another copy. (Those few contemporary documents 
needed for legal purposes are an exception, of course).

Transcriptions are fine for me *if* the actual form of the original doesn't 
convey any information.  Transcriptions are important because they are computer 
searchable.  

But in many cases, the form matters too - handwriting where the transcription 
accuracy is uncertain,  signatures vs a witnessed "X", marginal notations in a 
different handwriting, etc.  For such documents, I scan the original in grey 
scale (and color if appropriate) at sufficient resolution to encode all the 
visible information, and then save the scanned image as well as the 
transcription.   The transcription should contain a reference to the scanned 
image.  Computer hard disks now have so much capacity and are so cheap that 
there's no longer any reason to compromise on resolution.  (a one terrabyte 
hard drive is now under $100.  That's a million megabytes!)  For this reason, 
it's also easy and cheap to keep multiple copies of everything on multiple 
disks, removing any concern about losing the data when disks fail.  Archival 
copies on DVD's provide yet another redundant level of safety.

Another factor is that for the old, faded, documents we often see, a good  
grey-scale scanned image can be enhanced to be far more readable than the 
original.  In such cases, I save the  raw scanned image as well as the enhanced 
image, because I might someday want to use a different type of enhancement.  

For my own purposes, copies of documents that are available from a large 
commercial database such as ancestry.com need not be saved locally.   These 
databases are reliably backed up, and sufficiently valuable so that in the 
unlikely event that ancestry.com abruptly went bankrupt and shut down its 
websites, some other company would arrange to rescue the data. 

Electronic images or transcriptions of documents stored only on small private 
websites can *not* be assumed to be permanently available.  These sites can 
disappear overnight and never be seen again.  I will keep local copies of such 
documents in my own computer files.


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Re: [LegacyUG] Is there a listing of websites created using Legacy

[David E. Damouth]

Here's mine:  

Still rather simple at the moment.  The top page is hand
coded, but most of the rest is Legacy 7.  I'm working now to
completely redo the whole thing, add photo albums, add reports for
individuals, etc., and will move it off rootsweb onto my own
domain, 
.
 

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[LegacyUG] How to record same-sex couples?

[David E. Damouth]

I'm a new user of Legacy 7, so perhaps I'm missing something obvious.  I can't 
figure out how to properly enter same-sex couples.  I could add a new entry to 
the "status" list in the Marriage Information Window, but is there some 
relatively standard way of doing this?

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