Hi everybody,
I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN computer and a
SECONDARY computer?
What do you feel is the advantage of your choice vs another app?
Gary
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Your ‘survey’ comes at an interesting time since I am currently considering
abandoning Lecacy (after many years) because of the difficulty of
accomplishing this sync.
Dennis.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:57 AM Gary Crull
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
I have spent thousands of hours (not sure I would want to know exactly how
many!) working on my database. I now have over 713,000 individuals in my
database, which is over 1GB in size. Frankly, I don't want to lose all that
time and work! So I use a cloud backup service (BackBlaze) as a backup.
Right now, I’m considering a product called ‘Ancestral Quest’. Their file
structure is far less complex.
Dennis
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:57 AM Gary Crull
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
>
> What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN co
My app is an external USB hard drive. After working on one computer, I
save the .fdb file and the media files to the external and then update
the other computer.
Jerry
On 3/12/2020 10:56 AM, Gary Crull wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
What app do you u
I have legacy following files on drop box folder: fsd, ged, fg, kil, tc and
media folder
Cheers,
Ian hocking
From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of
Gary Crull
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:57 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: [LegacyUG] Survey - Syncing
Hi everybody,
I'm taking
I also use a USB drive, except that my _live_ .fdb and media files are on it.
My backups go to the computer’s hard drive (and from there automatically to the
cloud using Carbonite).
Ward
From: Jerry Kime
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 2:33 PM
To: legacy
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Survey - Sync
I never do that. I take a backup daily of my files and they go on a NAS
drive.
I keep a dummy copy for show and tells, but never connect them to the main
files, So no on the fly updates.
I also do not understand how 700K names can result in 1 GB. I have less
than 100K folks and run at well over
Jerry,
I also use a USB or External Hard Drive to backup - after backing up to my
PC. How do you update your 2nd PC?
Thanks
Margaret
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:48 PM Ward Walker wrote:
> I also use a USB drive, except that my _live_ .fdb and media files are on
> it. My backups go to the computer
That’s why I’m considering changing. I”ve never found an easy way to do it.
I’ve always had to do a back-up/restore to move data between computers.
Dennis
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:57 AM Gary Crull
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
>
> What app do you
I might also mention that I have 3 different Android devices that I sync
to using the app Families.
Jerry
On 3/12/2020 10:56 AM, Gary Crull wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN computer and a
SECONDARY
Dennis, please, change if you are unhappy with Legacy, but don’t waste your
time or ours by repeatedly telling us you are going to change. Your
complaining has NOTHING to do with the original question.
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:09 PM, Dennis Holtby wrote:
> That’s
I should clarify that in my case it is a thumb drive (16GB). I just carry it to
the other computer. The only trick is organizing the drive letters so that
everything can be found on either computer. I don’t ‘update’ the second
computer, other than backups. This avoids any accidental confusion on
What are the file extensions that are involved? I mistakenly thought it was
only the .fdb file when I changed computers and later learned there was also a
hints database file that I needed. Are there more?
Robin
> On March 12, 2020 at 11:47 AM Ward Walker wrote:
>
> I also use a USB drive
Margaret,
On the second computer, copy the .fdb into the data folder (it will
overwrite the old one) and copy any updated media folders to the second
computer also, and you in business and up to date on that computer.
This also works in reverse ie: updating computer 1 from cpmputer 2. I
w
Ian,
I have 312k people and the size of my data file is just over 1/2 gb.
Jerry
On 3/12/2020 12:03 PM, Ian Macaulay wrote:
I never do that. I take a backup daily of my files and they go on a
NAS drive.
I keep a dummy copy for show and tells, but never connect them to the
main files, So no on
Under file properties you will find your Family File Information:
If you use Dropbox, set your family file folder to save to your Dropbox folder
– syncs every time as long as you only have Legacy open on one computer at a
time.
I have been using this for years with no issues – a
On 13-Mar-20 4:56 AM, Gary Crull wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm taking a little survey if you'll participate.
>
> What app do you use to 'sync' Legacy between your MAIN computer and a
> SECONDARY computer?
>
> What do you feel is the advantage of your choice vs another app?
>
> Gary
>
I'm a
Hi Dennis and Gary,
What is your definition of ‘sync’? Are you wanting to work on your tree (same
file) from two computers? Or are you backing up to another location and wanting
to keep that file updated?
I doubt that any of the family tree programs will the ability to work with one
commo
Ian, as a program based on Microsoft Access, the maximum possible size of your
database is 2GB. Did you mean 2MB?
Peace,Loren Johns
Guatemala City, Guatemala
"I will accept no bull from your house" (Ps. 50:9, RSV).
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, 03:30:18 PM EDT, Jerry Kime
wrote:
Ian,
Ian,
The database file itself (*.fdb) contains only links to your media files. As
such it is indeed far smaller than the 7GB you quote.
Your 7GB is probably the backup size of the *.fdb file AND your media files
(pictures etc) stored on your pc.
Kind regards,
Johan
From: Lega
Ronald, I would disagree. Ignoring a problem, or pretending that a
problem doesn't make you want to use a different solution, doesn't fix
the problem. If Dennis is expressing that this issue is bothersome
enough to make him consider using a different product, knowing that I am
not the only one
Thanks Jerry. Great idea and I will try it.
Margaret
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:25 PM Jerry Kime
wrote:
> Margaret,
>
> On the second computer, copy the .fdb into the data folder (it will
> overwrite the old one) and copy any updated media folders to the second
> computer also, and you in busin
I must be doing something weird. Perhaps its just the photos and documents
that are taking the space.
I will have to take a look see.
Ian
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:30 PM Jerry Kime
wrote:
> Ian,
>
> I have 312k people and the size of my data file is just over 1/2 gb.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 3/12/2020
Sorry, I see what you folks are looking at now. I count the dbase photos
and documents as one file. They are not all Access but are linked as a
database. Legacy alone is less than a GB.
Ian
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:39 PM Loren L. Johns via LegacyUserGroup <
legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Ian,
Those only connected by links to the data file. I think you may be
looking at the size of the data folder. If you have a lot of back ups
in it the folder could easily get to that size. the data file is the one
with (name).fdb. For instance, my own data folder has 16 days of back
up f
Ian Macaulay,
The Legacy database itself - the .fdb file has a size limit of 2 GB so
you don't have a 7 GB .fdb file. You may well have 7 GB of Legacy
related files if you are including your Media files.
Re the survey question.
To change computer I restore the latest data backup which has be
Please, what is the best way to add a document to a persons file? It
would be an A4 size and would need to be able to be read in a Book Report
Thanks - Trevor
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