Re: [LegacyUG] File name problem
Estelle
The problem may be with how you are opening Legacy.
Check to see where your Legacy file actually is.
If it has Temp or tmp anywhere in the path, then at least once you have
opened by double clicking the fdb file inside the Legacy backup zip.
When you keep doing that you keep getting a [1] attached to the filename.
Backups are only for emergency and they are Restored using File -
Restore inside of Legacy.
Use File - Save AS - to save your current file to ...\Document\Legacy
Family Tree\Data\
Then set Options - Customise 1.2 to automatically open this file.
Continue to make backups as you close Legacy. That is not how Legacy
Saves your data. It is a backup only. It's for emergencies.
Your data is saved immediately you click a save button as you enter data.
If this isn't the problem, I suggest you contact Support.
Cathy
Ian Thomas wrote:
Estelle
At the top of your screen would be the full name of your Legacy
database –can you copy it to an email post here?
(Mine is showing Legacy – [C:Users\iltho\Documents\Legacy Family
Tree\Data\Thomas (2017).fdb] )
Can you also post here the locations – Customise menu – items 6.1, 6.2 ?
(as you see the file location paths – copy, paste)
We can try to give the English vs French equivalents.
It may be helpful in solving this puzzle.
The backup files are .ZIP files, and they are named with the time and
date in the part before the “.ZIP”
(It would help a lot if it were permitted to paste screen captures here)
Also, what is your version of Windows?
IanT
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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*Sent:* Tuesday, 19 December 2017 2:08 AM
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*Subject:* [LegacyUG] File name problem
Hello everybody,
I seem to have a problem with Legacy 9 file names.
First of all I am working my Legacy 9 in the French language, so some
of the term I use may not totally reflect the actual English equivalent.
Here is the problem: whenever I leave Legacy and answer yes to the
offer to make a record ("enregistrer") of this genealogical file. If I
opt to "enregistrer", having already opted to "make a backup..." (the
box at the bottom left of this screen) the file name gets a [1] added
to the name file. After a few times the number of such adding makes
the file name too long for Windows to treat it.
How do I keep Legacy from adding the [1] characters? Am I doing
anything wrong?
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Estelle Nadeau
nade...@hotmail.com
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Re: [LegacyUG] File name problem
Estelle
At the top of your screen would be the full name of your Legacy database -can
you copy it to an email post here?
(Mine is showing Legacy - [C:Users\iltho\Documents\Legacy Family
Tree\Data\Thomas (2017).fdb])
Can you also post here the locations - Customise menu - items 6.1, 6.2 ?
(as you see the file location paths - copy, paste)
We can try to give the English vs French equivalents.
It may be helpful in solving this puzzle.
The backup files are .ZIP files, and they are named with the time and date in
the part before the ".ZIP"
(It would help a lot if it were permitted to paste screen captures here)
Also, what is your version of Windows?
IanT
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of E. Nad
Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2017 2:08 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] File name problem
Hello everybody,
I seem to have a problem with Legacy 9 file names.
First of all I am working my Legacy 9 in the French language, so some of the
term I use may not totally reflect the actual English equivalent.
Here is the problem: whenever I leave Legacy and answer yes to the offer to
make a record ("enregistrer") of this genealogical file. If I opt to
"enregistrer", having already opted to "make a backup..." (the box at the
bottom left of this screen) the file name gets a [1] added to the name file.
After a few times the number of such adding makes the file name too long for
Windows to treat it.
How do I keep Legacy from adding the [1] characters? Am I doing anything wrong?
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Estelle Nadeau
nade...@hotmail.com
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Re: [LegacyUG] File name problem
Hi Estelle
There is a very 'hidden' option within Legacy to prompt to
save on exiting. This is from the Help on Exit Program.
Automatically Prompt for Backup
With this box checked, Legacy offers to make a backup file for each Family
File that was opened during the session. (See Backing Up a Family File for
more information on making backups.)
These options can be set from the Customize screen reached by choosing
Customize from the Options tab on the Ribbon bar and then choosing the Other
option on the menu panel. Click the Turn on Optional Reminder Messages
button. From the Optional Reminder Messages screen, click on the Reminder
to make a backup when exiting Legacy option.
To change these settings, you need to open the Customise
dialog from Options - it is the left entry in the Options ribbon bar. You
then select Option 12 - Other Settings and then click on the button below
12.5 Message boxes. This will open a dialog with a number of options that
you can configure. You have probably got the third one under
Prompts/Reminders (left tab) set, which is Reminder to make a backup when
exiting Legacy. Clear that option to stop Legacy asking for you to make a
copy of your database.
In practice, you DO NOT NEED to make a copy of your
database, since as a fully managed database it is always kept up to date. I
suspect that every time you run Legacy you are then opening the latest copy
and then saving it again, thus adding the [1] onto the file name. Hence you
should be finding that you have a set of files in your PC reading A.fdb, A
[1].fdb, A [1] [1].fdb . etc. In this case, you need to open the latest
version and then use the File and Save File As option to create a new file
with a clean name.
You only need a single .fdb file as your working database.
If you need a backup, then use the File and Backup File to create a
compressed copy of your database, and remember not to copy it to the Legacy
Cloud unless you want to. I would make backups before making major updates,
check/repair or merges from other trees.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Chris
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of E. Nad
Sent: 18 December 2017 15:08
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] File name problem
Hello everybody,
I seem to have a problem with Legacy 9 file names.
First of all I am working my Legacy 9 in the French language, so some of the
term I use may not totally reflect the actual English equivalent.
Here is the problem: whenever I leave Legacy and answer yes to the offer to
make a record ("enregistrer") of this genealogical file. If I opt to
"enregistrer", having already opted to "make a backup..." (the box at the
bottom left of this screen) the file name gets a [1] added to the name file.
After a few times the number of such adding makes the file name too long for
Windows to treat it.
How do I keep Legacy from adding the [1] characters? Am I doing anything
wrong?
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Estelle Nadeau
mailto:nade...@hotmail.com
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[LegacyUG] File name problem
Hello everybody,
I seem to have a problem with Legacy 9 file names.
First of all I am working my Legacy 9 in the French language, so some of the
term I use may not totally reflect the actual English equivalent.
Here is the problem: whenever I leave Legacy and answer yes to the offer to
make a record ("enregistrer") of this genealogical file. If I opt to
"enregistrer", having already opted to "make a backup..." (the box at the
bottom left of this screen) the file name gets a [1] added to the name file.
After a few times the number of such adding makes the file name too long for
Windows to treat it.
How do I keep Legacy from adding the [1] characters? Am I doing anything wrong?
Any help will be very much appreciated.
Yours truly,
Estelle Nadeau
nade...@hotmail.com
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