Actually its just a lot easier to find a picture in one of the main folders - don't have to change anything else or go through all those machinations. I have close to 600 photos and images connected and i usually only have to find seven or eight of them and everything is connected again and with the new pathways.
Takes me perhaps five minutes - ten if I'm not thinking. It's one of those little things about Legacy I really like. Jackie On 5/27/2012 4:48 PM, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2012/05/27 22:02, Laird wrote: > >> I would like to discourage you making this change: >> Someday you will have to buy a new computer. It will NOT have a folder >> called >> "My Documents" like you have with XP now. The new computer will have a >> different operating system, in the near future it will be "Windows 8". At >> that >> time you will have to do this process all over again. That is one of the >> reasons Legacy puts everything in C:\Legacy\..................... > Microsoft are hardly likely to move away from this ipso facto standard. It > might > become known as the 'Personal Folder' but the concept will persist. > >> You will have to locate/find at least one photo from each >> folder\sub-folder\etc. > No you won't! Provided that you copy files from the root (C:\LEGACY\PICTURES) > to > \MY DOCUMENTS\PICTURES and maintain the identical sub-folder structure below > that, then all you need do *after* moving all your attachments to their new > location, is start Legacy and go to the Locations tab in the Customis(z)e > window, and change the entry for your picture files. > > You may also need to press the "View Current List of Multimedia Locations" > button, and then change everything in there as well. > > Finally, you should press the "Test All Multimedia Paths..." button and make a > list of all missing multimedia files. No need to unlink anything. Just Proceed > and see what the list says. Then, it may just be a matter of fixing the > reference to one file out of each sub-folder for all the files to be correctly > relinked. > 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
