On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:18:18 -0700 (PDT), Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>Today I did some work "tidying up" my census master sources and citations. > >Last night after much consideration, I decided to keep the masters at the >county level, and store either images or text at the detail citation level. >Consequently, for about 10 master sources, this afternoon I "moved" the image >(sometimes one page, sometimes two) from the master source to the detail >citations. (BTW, it wasn't too tedious, using of course the clip board & >tagging.) > >I had done a backup at EOD yesterday, and then again just now as I finished >these changes. I did not add any new images to the pictures directory. The >zip'd file of multimedia has increased by 2 1/2-3 MEG! > >Therefore, I'm concluding that the images *are* "stored" multiple times, once >for each detail citation, just like the "Text" fields are. (previously stated >by someone on this list) > >Which of course means I need to rethink keeping track of them at the detail >level. > >Any thoughts? Am I the only person running into disc space concerns? Please provide a step-by-step of how you "moved" pictures. Legacy only stores (in the MS Access DB) a "link" or "pointer" to a picture (see tblBR). So it sounds like something you did possibly caused a copy of a picture to get created and stored somewhere. Which is why a step-by-step of what you did will help in assisting you. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
