[LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-10 Thread Arthur & Pauline Kennedy
Hi everyone I was a keen user of Legacy 4 & 5 until about 8-9 years ago, but then switched to another program. For various reasons I am now considering switching back to Legacy, but before doing so would want to be sure that the factors which influenced my previous decision no longer apply. (I als

Re: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-12 Thread Wendy Howard
Hi Arthur, "I was a bit concerned that the initial set-up file was >60MB. When patches/updates are released, does this involve downloading a similar size file each time, or are they much smaller? And how often might I expect them to be released?" In previous versions of Legacy an update would inv

Re: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-13 Thread Arthur & Pauline Kennedy
Hi Wendy Thanks for your comments. As you'll have seen from my other posts, I still have concerns over some issues, but the updates situation is something that I think I can live with. When I first started using Legacy v.4, at a guess in about 2002, one of the things that attracted me was that it

Re: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-13 Thread Carl Cox
Arthur, I just read several of the GENSOFT reviews. As I did not read them all, I cannot make comprehensive statements, but of those I read EVERY ONE of the negative reviews focused on a single problem that Legacy had. The positive reviews were nearly all 5 star, and comments indicated it was easy

RE: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-13 Thread Denise Moss-Fritch
inal Message- From: Arthur & Pauline Kennedy [mailto:ken...@paxnet.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:26 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions [clipped] I do realise that it's often the people with axes to grind who

Re: [LegacyUG] Returning to Legacy - general questions

2015-01-13 Thread Arthur & Pauline Kennedy
I've obviously read more than you have, then. On the first page (most recent 20 reviews) the problems include: Irritation with Potential Problems feature Report layout issues (at least 3 different ones mentioned) Installation issues (missing DLLs) Research Guidance lost when upgrading Jumbling of