Marion, You are correct in saying that restoring your Family File should have had no effect on the links with you pictures etc., and I have no idea why this should have happened. As far as the the picture locations are concerned, I take it that you are referring to Customise>Other>Locations; I have only ever regarded these as the default setting for telling the program where to start when registering a new file. To be honest I have never found it to be particularly useful, and generally do not bother with it.
I am afraid that I know of no other option other than the suggestion which I have already made. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: 2marion wimps Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:49 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Picture Links - assistance required please. Thanks Ron, Sadly I have folders for each family with several same named sub folders (Documents, Photos, Census, Misc) under each one! I set it up years and a quarter ago and have never been able to face changing the system, which is why I had to do the pictures sub folder by sub folder when I orginally moved computers. I still can't work out why the picture location would have changed when I just restored from a previous backup - I've done this before and haven't had the problem! I also can't work out why Legacy won't look in the location when it is told to search and the link is shown as the E drive. Marion On 13 December 2011 17:21, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Marion, > > You only need to go to one picture from each of your picture folders, > provided that you do not have duplicated file names. i find that the best > way is to go to one of the pictures with the '?' on it, select that one > and > opt to search for the file yourself, go to the file and click 'Open'. All > files in that folder should now be found. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: 2marion wimps > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:02 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: [LegacyUG] Picture Links - assistance required please. > > I am using Windows 7 Legacy Deluxe v 7.5.0.112. I backup every other > time I use Legacy and yesterday made a mess of some entries so I > decided to restore the files from the previous backup (as I have done > before if really necessary). > > This time I restored, went to my pictures for something and the > dreaded ? mark is on all of the pictures. My photos are stored on my E > drive in folders and sub folders, Legacy and backups are stored on the > C drive, and the only time I have had this problem before was when I > was moving from one computer to another. > > I have gone to Options/Customise/Locations/View Current List of > Multimedia Locations and none of the paths line up with where my files > are, but under the Picture Sound Sideo and Files the location to look > for the files is correct for the E drive. > > When I tell Legacy to check for the picture file itself it doesn’t > search in the correct location but under a location that is a sub > folder under the E drive that is not actually used in Legacy > Apart from going through the whole picture file again and searching > for the pictures myself is there something else I can do? > > I have done a File Maintenance and that has not changed anything. > > Before I sit down for two or three days and manually find all the > files is there anything else I can do please??? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Marion > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
