Yes, I should have mentioned that there are sub-folders for each of the 4 multimedia file locations. My understanding is that Legacy will look in all sub-folder of each specified location of Pictures, Sounds, Video, and Documents. For example, the existing specified location for pictures is "D:\Legacy Files\Pictures". Within that actual Pictures folder, there are about 10 sub-folders, entitled Census, Marriage, Death, Graves, etc.
When I look at an attached image to a source citation, Legacy shows only the filename and never the complete path, thus my reasoning that Legacy will look for that image in any of the sub-folders. I think what Legacy does is merely go to the specified multimedia location and then parse down through any sub-folders until it finds a matching filename that it was looking for. Which is why you bring up the question about UNIQUE filenames. And yes, all of the filenames throughout are unique. Try examining any image attached to a source citation and Legacy appears to refer to that image only by the filename and not the complete path (which would include a sub-folder). I realize that there would be confusion galore if one sub-folder had a filename "image123.jpg" and another sub-folder had another file with the same name, "image123.jpg". So if I change my Pictures location from "D:\Legacy Files\Pictures" to something like "G:\Legacy Files\Pictures", will Legacy link all images just as before? There will be no other changes to filenames, sub-folder names. Only the drive letter will be changing. Am I good to go? Anyone? Anyone? Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 2:44 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Locations Brian, It may not be as bad as you think! But, a couple of questions are all your images in the same folder, or are they in dfferent folders inc. sub-folders? If the latter do all your images have a different i.e. unique file name? If the images all have a unique file name there is not a problem, otherwise........ --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Brian L. Lightfoot" <br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote: >OMG - a terrible thought has just occurred to me, something that I >thought I knew the answer to but apparently I'm not 100% positive. > > > >I'm about to make some major changes to my home computer, swapping out >drives, switching over to SSD, etc. I will be doing a clean re-install >of Windows and some of the changes involve drive letter changes. > > > >OK, I know how to set the multimedia locations under the >Options/Customize menu and I'm assuming that once I point Legacy to the >new locations, all linked images should be found. What I'm getting at >is that I believe that the individual links to an image are links to a >filename only and that Legacy will look anywhere within the location >set under options. For example, a link to a copy of a 1860 census image >that was previously found in "D:\Legacy Files\Images" should be once >again found in "G:\Legacy Files\Images" assuming the new location >pointer is set to "G:\Legacy Files\Images". I shudder at the prospect >of having to manually change over >3,500 links within Legacy. Whew, it's amazing that what you think you >know becomes questionable once you start to take a risk. Somebody tell >me to take a deep breath and relax and that it will work as advertised. > > > 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
