The images are all located on an external hard drive. I don't know why it was looking in the E Drive except that most of my programs use the E Drive for temporary file storage because there is nothing there. It's a very small drive.
I don't put any data on the C Drive because I don't keep data there for a very good reason. I do system restores or reformats at least once a year to get rid of all the junk that Microsoft Windows Updates puts there. If I forget that I have data files on the C Drive then it will be gone unless I remember to do a backup. My computer is about six years old and if I could afford to upgrade or buy a new one I would. I wish I could get rid of this piece of junk (Sony--I'll never buy another one). It probably can't be upgraded anyway. They'll say I need a new one just to make a fast buck. I do need a faster computer though. I guess you could say that my system is not the typical system where people just pile years worth of junk on it and leave it there. Data is backed up the beginning of the year for the previous year then cleaned out. If I have to change my routine because of a piece of software then I'll change the software especially one that deletes my files. FTM2008 did that with all of my media files and I immediately trashed it. Software should not dictate where I choose to put my data files that's why I have two separate data drives--both external and one is never connected when my internet connection is live. It's an archive drive and I don't put a lot of trust in my Norton software because it has missed things before. The only software problems I have are with programs that use external programs such as Net Framework which conflicts with everything else that uses it. FTM 2008-2010 uses it and I've noticed that some Adobe software uses it too. The only thing I can think of, and discovered, that some older programs use older versions of Framework that conflict with the newer versions. I downloaded LTools the other day, but still haven't installed it. I'm going to do a new GEDCOM import into Legacy and just work with the data for now. I'll deal with the images later or might look for something that can handle them better. I think I saw something on the Legacy website that works with media files. -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Jay at 1Familytree.com Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted Bill, I have over 10,000 images linked to events and persons in my Legacy database and in over 5 years Legacy has only crashed once, and that was several years ago. There are tools available from third parties such as LTools which can help you batch process many records. You might want to contact Dennis at LTools directly if you have some very specific tasks. $50 saved me from entering and linking over 3000 items (which probably would have taken a month to do if I had to key it) When you get an error message, jot down the # and refer to the Legacy support page online. You should probably get your computer checked out, it probably needs some upgrading. (and a side note....why was Legacy trying to look for your image in a E: drive ? (which is usually a disk drive) Your data (images) should be stored on the same drive as Legacy if possible, and always on a hard drive and not a disk drive. Sounds like you have a conflict with some other program that is trying to control/manage your images. I hope things work out for you. Jay From: William H. Boswell Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:57 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted That's all I'm getting is error messages then it closes. I managed to save one before it closed: Error opening Picture Information work file. Error 3024: Could not find file 'e:\Temp\LG~0.dbm'. Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? There was also a file with a DBM extension that was saved in the folder where it deleted the image file, but when I went to locate it again it was gone. All of my exhibits are set at read only so why is Legacy deleting them? This is a similar problem I had with FTM 2008. I wonder what else got deleted. I removed the Legacy program from my computer and may try reinstalling it again later. I do have several backups from yesterday and one from today (overwritten a few times because I stopped adding time to the backup--my mistake now), but I've spent nearly six hours today fixing the images and don't want to use a possibly corrupt backup. I think because the images were all attached in the GEDCOM from TMG to Legacy, this might have caused the problem. Because there's way too much work involved in cleaning up this file, it would be better to import a new GEDCOM without image links since I have to do the relinking thing over anyway. Unfortunately, it also means everything I have changed in the lists will also have to be redone. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Sherry/Support Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 12:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted Are you getting any error messages? Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. --------Original Message------------- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of William H. Boswell Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:16 AM To: Legacy Family Tree List Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted Legacy may be going the way FTM is--gone. I was trying to relink an image and it crashed deleting my original image file. When I try to go back in and continue where I left off, it crashes again. I'm not bothering with this anymore. It's too much work and if I can't get past the crashes I'm just wasting my time. Fed up with genealogy programs. 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