Re: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

[Cathy Pinner]

Jenny,

It's just that, as I understand it, the process is actually an import 
into a new empty file. It's not just copying the file like a Save As. 
It's rebuilding it by importing everything to a new file which is why it 
fixes several bugs.
You may have checked "Show Combine options when Event Definitions or 
Locations are different." You need to to keep your Event Sentence 
definitions. Also you need to override the Privacy Options so you don't 
lose any information marked private.


Cathy

Jenny M Benson wrote:


This is not a problem, I am just curious.

I had to export my Family File to a new one because of an error.  Two
or three times during the export I had a tab come up which was
querying locations because, it said, the Short Location Name in the
new file was different to that in the original file.  The "new" name
was something like "High Street, Anytown" where the original name (it
said) was "1, High Street, Anytown."

As the new file was to be an exact copy of the old one, I don't see
how anything could differ from one to the other.  The suggested new
Short Location Name was quite correct - when creating Locations, if I
amended the suggested short name which would have been "1, High
Street, Anytown" like the long name, it would have been to "High
Street, Anytown."

I don't always create a new Short Name, but I must have done in these
cases as the name in the new file is what I would have used in the old
one.  So why did Legacy think there was a difference between the files?
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Re: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

[Kathy Meyer]

what do you back up, Tim? Just your Legacy files? Kathy

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Tim Rosenlof  wrote:

> I will keep this short ! I am not a DropBox user. I keep my backups here
> on my computer, just waiting for a hard drive failure. I use the Amazon
> Cloud. Look it up. I Backup to it ! probably two times a week.
>
> Tim
>
> On 6/27/2011 9:31 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> > Because I was about to spend about a week away from home and wanted to
> > work on my family file while away - I keep a copy of Legacy on the
> > computer I use when here - I used Dropbox to pass Legacy from home to
> > here.  I copied the entire Legacy folder into Dropbox (in one "pass", not
> > folder by folder) and having updated Legacy here to the latest version, I
> > copied the Legacy folder from Dropbox over it.
> >
> > I was somewhat surprised - to put it mildly! - when I tried to open my
> > family file and it wasn't there!  I went back to the Dropbox folder
> > containing the Legacy folder and sure enough, nearly all the files
> > relating to my current family file were absent!  The folder actually
> > *should* contain the files relating to 5 different "savings" of my family
> > file, as I have saved it and started with a renamed copy every few
> months.
> >   3 of the 5 databases are complete, but of the most recent 2 (dated 18
> Jan
> > and 07 May this year) only the .NC and .TC files are there.
> >
> > As I was working on the 07 May file on Saturday night, closed it down
> > normally and copied the Legacy folder on Sunday morning there is no
> reason
> > to suppose the full version is happily residing on my home computer, but
> I
> > won't half be relieved when I go home and satisfy myself that it is!
> >
> > I'm totally baffled, though, how files could just vanish like that.
> > Although when I upgraded from an old computer to a new one a few weeks
> > ago, I also found that several files, sometimes whole sub-folders had
> > somehow failed to copy across.  The moral of that story is *hang on to
> > your old computer until you are QUITE sure you have retrieved
> everything*!
> >   Luckily, I have!
> >
> >
>
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Re: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

[Tim Rosenlof]

I will keep this short ! I am not a DropBox user. I keep my backups here
on my computer, just waiting for a hard drive failure. I use the Amazon
Cloud. Look it up. I Backup to it ! probably two times a week.

Tim

On 6/27/2011 9:31 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> Because I was about to spend about a week away from home and wanted to
> work on my family file while away - I keep a copy of Legacy on the
> computer I use when here - I used Dropbox to pass Legacy from home to
> here.  I copied the entire Legacy folder into Dropbox (in one "pass", not
> folder by folder) and having updated Legacy here to the latest version, I
> copied the Legacy folder from Dropbox over it.
>
> I was somewhat surprised - to put it mildly! - when I tried to open my
> family file and it wasn't there!  I went back to the Dropbox folder
> containing the Legacy folder and sure enough, nearly all the files
> relating to my current family file were absent!  The folder actually
> *should* contain the files relating to 5 different "savings" of my family
> file, as I have saved it and started with a renamed copy every few months.
>   3 of the 5 databases are complete, but of the most recent 2 (dated 18 Jan
> and 07 May this year) only the .NC and .TC files are there.
>
> As I was working on the 07 May file on Saturday night, closed it down
> normally and copied the Legacy folder on Sunday morning there is no reason
> to suppose the full version is happily residing on my home computer, but I
> won't half be relieved when I go home and satisfy myself that it is!
>
> I'm totally baffled, though, how files could just vanish like that.
> Although when I upgraded from an old computer to a new one a few weeks
> ago, I also found that several files, sometimes whole sub-folders had
> somehow failed to copy across.  The moral of that story is *hang on to
> your old computer until you are QUITE sure you have retrieved everything*!
>   Luckily, I have!
>
>


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Re: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

[Wendy Howard]

Hi Jenny,

Did you observe the complete folders on the second computer at all?  Did
you wait long enough for (a) everything to upload to Dropbox before you
shut the original computer down, and then (b) everything to download to
the other computer before you took it offline?  It takes time, it's not
instant.

If sufficient time wasn't given for everything to be uploaded before the
original computer was shut down, then it will continue the upload when
the computer is next online.  And they will still be there on that
computer, safe and sound.

I prefer to direct my backup files to Dropbox, so I can restore the
latest version to another computer should the need arise (which I did at
the weekend, as it happens), not the actual data file itself.

Kind Regards,
Wendy


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RE: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

[Charles Apple]

Jenny,

Thank you for this information. I recently switched to a new computer so this 
is really helpful to me. Fortunately, I still have my old computer, and all of 
its files.

Charles

-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 11:32 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] How can this happen?

Because I was about to spend about a week away from home and wanted to work on 
my family file while away - I keep a copy of Legacy on the computer I use when 
here - I used Dropbox to pass Legacy from home to here.  I copied the entire 
Legacy folder into Dropbox (in one "pass", not folder by folder) and having 
updated Legacy here to the latest version, I copied the Legacy folder from 
Dropbox over it.

I was somewhat surprised - to put it mildly! - when I tried to open my family 
file and it wasn't there!  I went back to the Dropbox folder containing the 
Legacy folder and sure enough, nearly all the files relating to my current 
family file were absent!  The folder actually
*should* contain the files relating to 5 different "savings" of my family file, 
as I have saved it and started with a renamed copy every few months.
 3 of the 5 databases are complete, but of the most recent 2 (dated 18 Jan and 
07 May this year) only the .NC and .TC files are there.

As I was working on the 07 May file on Saturday night, closed it down normally 
and copied the Legacy folder on Sunday morning there is no reason to suppose 
the full version is happily residing on my home computer, but I won't half be 
relieved when I go home and satisfy myself that it is!

I'm totally baffled, though, how files could just vanish like that.
Although when I upgraded from an old computer to a new one a few weeks ago, I 
also found that several files, sometimes whole sub-folders had somehow failed 
to copy across.  The moral of that story is *hang on to your old computer until 
you are QUITE sure you have retrieved everything*!
 Luckily, I have!


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Jenny M Benson



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