G'day Richard,
I can't really comment on Secure zip as I use ZipGenius, another freebie. I
have a similar setup to yours in that I mainly work on my desktop but
frequently copy my files to my laptop. I have no troulbe doing this, either
from Desktop to Laptop or vice versa.
Firstly, I exclusively use the Legacy backups, the ones we are prompted
with when we close Legacy. I place these directly to a USB disk. Copying
the .fdb file, as you have said you do, does not copy some of the other
files you may have set up.
On the other computer, I restore the family file in Legacy using File >
Restore family file.
I have all of my pictures stored under C:\Legacy\Pictures\BC Pics and about
100 folders under that - divided up by family, certificate type etc. On the
machine I am transferring to, I first kill the BC Pics file. Then I use
Windows Explorer to find the Pics Backup on the USB, right click it and use
ZipGenius and Extract to..
I simply tell it to extract to the C: drive and all get restored where they
should be.
Hope this helps.
Paul
Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Van Wasshnova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 5:59 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Restore multimedia zip file
Has anyone ever had difficulty extracting Legacy multimedia files that
were created on another computer?
For a couple years I've been copying my Legacy multimedia files from desk
to laptop, (sometimes vice-versa), using File / backup multimedia files to
create a zip file and then extracting on the other computer. Both
computers used the same Win XP zip extraction utility. I did not have a
zip creation utility on either. I assumed Legacy used it's own internal
zip creation utility.
Win XP can't create zip files so 2 months ago I installed a free "Secure
zip for windows" on desktop to enable sending a more compact email
attachment to a cousin.
Yesterday I copied Legacy FDB file from desk to laptop and also the
multimedia zip backup. I deleted all Legacy multimedia files (some have
been renamed or moved within subdirectories so would no longer be linked).
When I extracted the multimedia zip backup on laptop it stopped with a
message that a file required a password to unzip. Not knowing a password I
clicked "skip file" for about 60 times until extraction completed.
I then used Options/Customize/Locations to create a list of missing MM
files. Mostly the missing were .mht (MHTML) but some were .jpg and maybe
.bmp.
I was able to open the multimedia zip backup in Win explorer and drag and
drop the subdirectories into legacy to fill in the missing MM files.
Apparently the Secure zip program on my desktop adversely affects the
Legacy backup multimedia files created there.
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Richard Van Wasshnova
Seal Beach, CA
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