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Comment by Cindy Abrams on October 13, 2009 at 9:02am

Thank you for your help. I've figured out my mistake and now know what to to.
I was making it much harder than it actually was!

Comment by Bob Rowe on October 13, 2009 at 4:37am

Hi Cindy, from our conversation you indicated that your flash drive contained a family file [ending in fdb]. I assume that you used Windows Explorer to get it from your laptop to your flash drive. A backup file ends with 'zip'. If it is a zip file use restore in Legacy. If it is an fdb file, use Windows Explorer to move or copy the fdb to your desktop in C:\Legacy\Data [default location]. You will be warned that "a file by that name already exists, do you want to overwrite it". Answer yes because the file on the flash drive has new data that is not in the original file on your desktop. You could actually work from the file on your flash drive by going to File > Open Family File and migrating to your flash drive. I don't recommend that. If you forget to do that even once, you will be updating the older file on your desktop instead of the newer file on your flash drive.

Comment by Barbara Krecklow on October 12, 2009 at 11:10pm

Is the Legacy file a backup? I go to File-Restore Family File and restore it to my Legacy file on my pc. I back up to my flashdrive whenever I add new information. I also use the backup on the flashdrive to restore it to other computers that have Legacy installed such as at our Genealogy Club Library.

Comment by Cindy Abrams on October 12, 2009 at 9:28pm

Bob,
Could you tell me how to transfer the information from my flashdrive ( a Legacy file) to my Legacy file on my PC? Thank you!

Comment by Cindy Abrams on October 9, 2009 at 10:34am

Yes, that's what I did. I copied the fdb from one machine to the other. Sorry I didn't make that clear. I'm a bit technically challenged, I may not use the right vocabulary.

Comment by Bob Rowe on October 9, 2009 at 10:29am

Sorry Cindy, you have left out too many details to make it easy to answer your question.

Comment by Bob Rowe on October 9, 2009 at 10:28am

I use Windows Explorer. Legacy doesn't care if the file is today's or yesterday's file. It will load the file it finds in the Data directory. You are not restoring a family file unless you first backed it up. I am assuming you simply copied the fdb from one machine to the other.

Comment by Cindy Abrams on October 9, 2009 at 10:18am

Yes, I copied my working data to my netbook with my flash drive, then copied a new one to my flash drive when I was finsihed. How do I copy the new file back to the original location, overwriting the old one? Do I use restore family file?

Comment by Bob Rowe on October 9, 2009 at 10:00am

So, did you create a new Legacy File on your netbook? Did you first copy your working data file to the netbook before you went to the library? If so, you would copy the file back to it original location overwriting the old one. If you created a new one, then you will want to merge the files. I always copy my working file to my laptop when I go to the library and copy it back when I get home. God forbid if I don't do it right away and start adding data to the old file forgetting to get the latest version from my laptop.

Comment by Cindy Abrams on October 9, 2009 at 9:32am

They are Legacy files.

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