Kathy, Basically what you say is correct, but it does depend on how you are storing the pictures. As you realise, Legacy's working files only store the paths and not the images, whereas the multimedia backup stores the lot. Thus it is important that the paths to the pics are *exactly* the same on both machines, usually this will only apply if you have them stored in a folder on the C drive ie. C:\Legacy\Pictures\ rather than eg. My Documents\.
However, even if the paths are different you will not have to reattach each one, because once you have linked a pic with its place in Legacy then the program will find all the other s in that folder, hence you only need to do it once for each picture folder. 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: Kathy Meyer To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: 27 August 2010 21:17 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Save As vs Backup Thanks, I figured that was the case; i.e., that you would have to restore back to the original folders; however, I would probably not have those same folders if my computer crashed or if I wanted to restore to my laptop. I guess I need to be very strict with my organization for that to work. Maybe I should start storing my pictures that I use in Legacy in a separate "legacy/photos & documents" file or something of the sort; just a copy and then have the other stored in my other folders that are named for each family group. Then if my computer crashed, I could copy that file from an external backup first. So follow this and tell me if I'm following this right: If my computer crashes or if I want to put my Legacy file on my laptop, including multimedia this is how I do it. 1 - move all of the picture/document files to the computer in question 2 - restore my Legacy data file 3 - restore my Legacy multimedia via winzip (or similar) So when I restore the multimedia via winzip, do I need to do anything further for my Legacy file to access the multimedia? I hope somebody has actually done this and it was successful :-) My computer has crashed multiple times and I do keep backups; my concern is whether my multimedia will ever be incorporated back into my file without me going through every single picture and adding it back in to each person in the file. And of course, that was only part of my question; guess I should have started two threads but I didn't realize til now that it was really separate. Thanks for the help! Kathy On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: On 27/08/2010 20:41, Kathy Meyer wrote: > I know I have backups and I can get the data back from a backup but > the multimedia files have to be restored using winzip or similar and > doesn't put the images back into the Legacy file. I'm wondering what > use it is to even add pics & docs (multimedia) into the program if I > can't back it up in a way that I can restore it to its original state. Not sure quite what you mean by "doesn't put the images back into the Legacy file." The images never are "in" the Legacy file: Legacy stores the location of the images so that it can find and open them. If you backup your multimedia files and later restore them (using Winzip or whatever) TO THE FOLDER WHERE THEY CAME FROM Legacy will have no trouble in locating and showing them. If you are getting an error message that Legacy can't locate an image you have restored it to a different folder and you need to either move it (and probably all your other images) back to where it was originally or else tell Legacy where the image(s) is/are now stored. If they are in more than one folder, you just need to find one image in each folder for Legacy then to locate everything. -- Jenny M Benson 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
