Kathy, The reason that I do not use it is that it only backs up, as I understand it, those photos that are linked to records in Legacy. I have thousands of photos and documents. Many of them are genealogy related, many are not. And, of those that are genealogy related, only a small subset are linked into Legacy.
So, I, like most of us, backup all my multimedia regularly. I keep all of it in the standard Windows 'My Documents' and 'My Pictures' folders (and subfolders), and that's what I back up. If I had chosen to use the recommended C:\Legacy\Pictures (and others), I would back those up too. In fact, and I do stand to be corrected on this, I believe it only backs up those items linked to Legacy records, even if the items are in the recommended C:\Legacy\Pictures folder. Let's say I had 50 photos in C:\Legacy\Pictures, but only 40 of them were linked to individuals and events in Legacy, the Legacy multimedia backup would only include the 40. So, as long as you have a comprehensive backup plan for all of your multimedia, it will include those items you have linked to your family file. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: February-14-11 4:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Photos Help Kathy, Hmmmm! Not using it started when I had a PC with limited memory. In those days I backed up my pics and images to CDs. As web hosts developed I switched to backing them up in the Cloud (as it is now called). If I have a crash them I will still have access to all my data - my fdb files are also backed up in the cloud. Oh! And I have all the files on 2 PCs and a laptop. I rather suspect that I do not need the Legacy back-up option. I do back-up to Legacy my current .fdb files and those files associated with current use (except multimedia) regularly during every session, although they are all - including current images - in DropBox. Hope that helps. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Kathy Meyer Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Photos Help Ron, can you explain why you don't use it? And does that mean if your computer crashes and you have the multimedia backup stored elsewhere, you will have access to all of your photos & documents that you had previously attached in the Legacy file? This particular function of Legacy has never been quite clear to me. Kathy On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: Ellen, Simply not the case, except for multimedia backups which have always backed up the picture and the path - which BTW is why I do not use it! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co..uk/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 8:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding Photos Help A relative of ours just emailed me that Legacy 7.5 is now embedding photos instead of linking. I presume that is not true but is there clarification on that? God bless, Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
