You need to make the pictures a smaller file size - resize to 150-200 KB in file size. Make a copy and keep the original larger picture. LInk to the smaller copy.
150-200 KB is just fine for publication and web pages. Take a look at the article on our website at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsMedia-Menu.asp Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Vivian Gullickson White <vwhit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I too have the same problem with pictures in Photo Gallery although my > photos are in jpg format. I find anything larger than 2.5MB will > result in the hour glass and "Legacy not responding". I have to > Control-Alt-Delete to get out of it. I have tried letting it sort > itself out but it will not. I started using the Photo Gallery for all > images and docs a long time ago. I find it quite useful to see at a > glance what I have. Anyway, once I find the problem photo and resize, > then it runs fine. > > I have a year old laptop running Win7 with 6 GB of ram, and lots of > disk space. There should be no problem but alas, there is. This > problem started a couple years ago and I did talk to support once and > then I figured it out. I told them what I had done and got "Good thing > you figured it out". > > Vivian 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
