Legacy

[DA]

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?
Thanks.

[Lars Erik Bryld]

Scripsit DA:

Using Legacy 6.0. Computer crashed two weeks ago. Had backup files
on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the backup
files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or something like this. All my records (3800 names) are on
this backup cd. What do I do? Thanks.

- remove write protect flag from backup files. Transferring files to
and from CD's often sets this flag.

--
Regards
Lars Erik Bryld

[Dennis K.]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:08:07 -0400, "DA" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?

Legacy cannot open a database that resides on a read-only medium. Copy
the backup to your hard-drive, make sure the file on the hard-drive does
not have the read-only flag set, and open it (or restore) from there.

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Dennis K.

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:08:07 -0400, "DA" <[email protected]>
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?
Thanks.

Copy all the relevant files from the CD to hard-disk. THEN, on the
hard disk, right click the files and make sure they are not flagged
"read only".
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

[Dennis K.]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:34:56 PST, [email protected]
(Everett M. Greene) wrote:

Legacy cannot open a database that resides on a read-only medium.

From whence came that restriction?

See the 2nd item on...

http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpFileErrors.asp

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Dennis K.

[Everett M. Greene]

Dennis K. <[email protected]> writes:

"DA" <[email protected]> wrote:

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?

Legacy cannot open a database that resides on a read-only medium.

From whence came that restriction?

Copy the backup to your hard-drive, make sure the file on the
hard-drive does not have the read-only flag set, and open it
(or restore) from there.

[DA]

Thanks for all the replys....transferred to HD...worked,


"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:08:07 -0400, "DA" <[email protected]
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?
Thanks.


Copy all the relevant files from the CD to hard-disk. THEN, on the
hard disk, right click the files and make sure they are not flagged
"read only".
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:34:56 PST, [email protected]
(Everett M. Greene) declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

From whence came that restriction?

Microsoft... and probably 99% of all other database engines. Legacy

databases are actually Microsoft JET files (commonly known as Access --
though technically JET is the database engine and Access is a GUI
form/report writer). Opening and viewing a record tends to require the
creation of locks (to prevent multiple updates in parallel).
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

[Jack]

Well you are talking about home users but actual numbers are

worldwide database market ($)
Oracle 46%
IBM 23.6%
Microsoft 6.7% of sales

and Microsoft makes most money with sqlserver...

so your correct number migth be about 1%
or is Access database at all?

"Dennis Lee Bieber" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:34:56 PST, [email protected]
(Everett M. Greene) declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:


From whence came that restriction?

Microsoft... and probably 99% of all other database engines. Legacy
databases are actually Microsoft JET files (commonly known as Access --
though technically JET is the database engine and Access is a GUI
form/report writer). Opening and viewing a record tends to require the
creation of locks (to prevent multiple updates in parallel).
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:35:31 GMT, "Jack" <[email protected]>
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

Well you are talking about home users but actual numbers are

worldwide database market ($)
Oracle 46%
IBM 23.6%
Microsoft 6.7% of sales

Using $$$ ignores all those installations of MySQL, PostGreSQL,

Firebird, etc.

However, my numbers were in relation to the /types/ of DBMS engines
that probably choke on read-only media -- pretty much all of them
maintain file/table/record locks which may or may not be kept in the
location of the database (though I'll also concede that most true
client/server models require ALL data to be in a predefined area of a
hard-disk -- only file-server models tend to allow the user to move/copy
the database from place to place; Those would tend to be JET,
FoxPro/DBase variants, SQLite, and maybe the embedded [built into the
application] versions of Firebird and MySQL).

The typical user-mode backup from a client/server DBMS is to create
an text file dump of the table definitions and data in the form of SQL
statements that can be used to recreate the data, as if from scratch.
--
bieber.genealogy Dennis Lee Bieber
HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

[John]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:34:56 PST, [email protected]
(Everett M. Greene) wrote:

Dennis K. <[email protected]> writes:
"DA" <[email protected]> wrote:

Using Legacy 6.0.
Computer crashed two weeks ago.
Had backup files on CD. Reinstalled Legacy today and tried to open the
backup files. Get error message "you don't have permission to open this
file" or
something like this.
All my records (3800 names) are on this backup cd.
What do I do?

Legacy cannot open a database that resides on a read-only medium.

From whence came that restriction?

Copy the backup to your hard-drive, make sure the file on the
hard-drive does not have the read-only flag set, and open it
(or restore) from there.

That's a restriction from the Access database engine that Legacy uses.

John