Legacy Back Up problem

I was using Legacy 5 but a computer crash resulted in a reformat and
reinstall, so I decided to install Legacy 6 but neither version will

Robert Heiling...

:(

Charani...

That was pretty much the reception here as well.

recognise the zip folders of the original files. For some reason the

Robert Heiling...

Not sure what you mean by "zip" there. Legacy would be looking for your
.fdb file so far as I know. If you have zip files, then you need to
extract the contents with something like Winzip.

Doug McDonald...

Legacy backup files are .zip files. Legacy itself will open them. You
just go to the Legacy "file" menu and hit "restore" and rummage
around for .zip files.

(When you have Legacy make a backup, it makes the .zip file.)

You can indeed use Winzip to unzip a Legacy zip file. There are
three files inside the zip, and you just put them in the directory
you normally put Legacy files. Actually, you can ignore the
two files other than the .fdb if all you need is the genealogy data.
I'm not quite sure what is in the other two files.

Robert Heiling...

You're so right. Although I'm not a Legacy user, I keep a copy of a
somewhat dated genealogy in all of the usual software packages including
Legacy. So I just finished making a trial run through the procedure
using the Legacy 6 that I recently upgraded to and I see what you mean.
Thanks for the heads up!

Charani...

I was wondering about those other two files, because some of the
folders only had two files, others had three. All the data seems to
be there though.

Sherry...

Thos other files are ancillary files and what they store depends on the
file extension. Most often you'll see .tc, which is to-do clipboard
and .fg, which is the focus group. Also you could find .cb* and .chb,
which are other clipboard files, .ldb which is an Access locking file,
.mrg is a merge file.

Charani...

Thank you :))

Sherry
Legacy Customer Support
Support@MillenniaCorp.com

Doug McDonald

Charani...

Yes, they were looking for .fdb files but they'd been zipped and I had
been able to open them OK before. There's PowerArchiver on my PC now
but I have a feeling it was Winzip before.

icons have changed. There were being kept on a different partition

Robert Heiling...

The icons come with the file association, i.e. file suffix. The file
associations haven't been associated in the same way in your new
installation as they were in the past.

and it was only the C: drive that was reformatted.

Before I commence re -inputting all the data, is there a way to
retrieve what I've already done?? I don't think there is but thought
I'd ask anyway.

Robert Heiling...

Some confusion here needs clarifying. :-)

Charani...

SOK :)) Problem's now solved. As you say the new installation
hadn't made the association with the old files, so both had a *very*
stern talking to and were made to recognise with each other again

One of the files made the association with no problems just by opening
it but the other six had to be associated by extracting them. I know,
I'm doing an "Albert" Anyway the files all seem to be there
perfectly all right now.

I think I just spent too long today sorting out and reinstalling and
updating programs and files and utilities, some of which went smoothly
and some didn't and my head's buzzing now and the mail side of
Mozilla still isn't working properly.

sull1927...

Don't you have a GEDCOM of each data base that you could import into
V6?

Charani...

I don't use GEDCOMs at all. It was Legacy's own zip files that I was
trying, and finally succeeded, in getting back into Legacy. Bob
Heiling was right about the associations not having been made.

sull1927...

Precisely my point... I backup and create GEBCOMs. I save both to my
desktop, my laptop and a portable USB HD. So what if I lose 1, 2 or 3
zips? Chances are that I will not lose all six. (I also back up to
CDs)

Overkill? Yes, but had you rather lose all your data or have it
because of overkill?

Robert Heiling...

But that's just a different backup preference with you preferring GEDCOM
and she preferring Legacy files. You can save as many copies as you like
of either. I personally don't use either style since I simply make a zip
file of the whole folder and save copies of that file. I never use the
backup feature of those programs,

Dennis...

That may be true, but Legacy doesn't depend on the association to
restore from a backup. My .zip's are associated with WinZip and I
restore from Legacy's .zips all the time.