Tony, My apologies for misreading part of your post.
I don't know of any setting which gives Legacy permission to automatically roam through my files looking for anything, only the button which one can click when a picture file is missing - hence my confusion. In which case I have given it permission and can see what it selects - although I don't use it as usually I know where the file is likely to be. I would be interested to know how you set it to auto-search for missing files - even if it to me seems to be a bad idea anyhow! Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ Ron Ferguson wrote: > Tony, > > I'm sorry, but in this case Legacy are correct. This is basic > computing, if you have files with the same file name in various > directories just how do you expect a machine to tell which is the > correct one - it cannot see a picture. You can't blame the operating > system either because it also is blind. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > And the Fergusons of N.W. England > ____________________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tony Rolfe > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: 03 May 2010 00:14 > Subject: [LegacyUG] possible problem > > > A few weeks ago I reported what I thought was a bug but, after a few > e-mails, the developers have told me that Legacy is acting as > designed and they won't be changing things. I thought it would be a > good idea to mention the problem here, so everyone is aware. I know > it happens in this particular situation and suspect it happens in > other similar areas as well. > > Imagine you have an individual with an event, the event has a source > and the source detail has an image attached. Now, if you move the > image into another directory, nothing happens until you use Legacy > and highlight the source. At this point, Legacy realises that the > file isn't where it was, so it goes off and looks in all its known > directories, finds it for you and the file is magically relinked. > You might never know this has happened. > > That's all well and good, except that Legacy isn't actually looking > for that file; it is looking for a file of that name. If there is a > second file with the same name anywhere in Legacy's known > directories, then Legacy is just as likely to find the other one and > relink that. Without telling you. > > Of course, if Legacy can't find any file with that name, it comes up > with the familiar requester and, if you let Legacy search for you, it > will ask if it finds the right one. > > I was hoping that the "Is this the right file?" would be inserted when > legacy finds one in the scenario above, but apparently that isn't > going to happen, so I guess the advice is to make sure that all your > files have unique names. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
