Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
Jan, I agree with Henry. You really shouldn't be using a gedcom to go from Legacy to Legacy. I would think there is something wrong anyway if it's taking so long for just 30,000 people. Cathy hpete...@cox.net Wednesday, 19 June 2024 5:55 AM Jan WHY? Are you using a GE

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips for Updating to Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
Sarah, Q1: Yes you should still set the Customise options I mentioned. It's the program that you've probably pinned to the Taskbar, not a particular database. Q2: When you are happy you have your all your data in your Legacy 10 database you are always opening, yes you can delete other copies yo

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread hpeterjr
Jan WHY? Are you using a GEDCOM. Make a copy (or rename your Legacy 9 file and just open it with Legacy 10. Legacy 10 will convert your data and you will be off and running. Just curious Henry -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Jan Hornick Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 20

[LegacyUG] Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread Jan Hornick
Good Afternoon, I have been a Legacy user for over 15 years and love the program. I also have been a Mac user for longer than that…and have had to use Fusion to be able to utilize Legacy. I have a fairly large database with 30,000 individuals along with many notes for most of those individuals.

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips for Updating to Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread sarah hughes
Hi Cathy I do have a question for you, if you don't mind; well 2 actually! The 1st is that I usually pin the Legacy site to my task bar, but should I also use those 2 Customize options that you suggest? Secondly, I noticed when I was trawling through my folders and files, that there are an awful l

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips for Updating to Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread sarah hughes
Thank you, Cathy. I will do that. And thank you for being so gracious about my rather unpleasant email. That member from Wrexham was right, you do do a lot to help other members, and I appreciate that too! On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 09:11, Cathy Pinner wrote: > Sarah, > It's good to hear you've foun

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips for Updating to Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread Cathy Pinner
Sarah, It's good to hear you've found your family file. Write down somewhere where it actually is. Set Options > Customise 1.2 to open it automatically AND Options > Customise 6.1 to the folder it is in. Cathy sarah hughes Tuesday, 18 June 2024 3:59 PM Thanks agai

Re: [LegacyUG] Tips for Updating to Legacy 10

2024-06-18 Thread sarah hughes
Thanks again for all your help. Just checked and it hasn't disappeared yet! On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 at 01:54, BMcL Robinson wrote: > Similarly, you can look for your data files using File Explorer. > Open File Explorer from the taskbar or right-click on the Start menu, > choose File Explorer and th