Jim, I understand your recommendation to avoid using folders that have a username in the path. You lost me when you said to restore only to C:\. I think that the multimedia can be on any drive. If I wanted to migrate mine from my K: drive to my E: drive, would that not be simple? (Just change the default location on the Customize-->Locations tab?)
Ward -----Original Message----- From: Jim Terry/Support Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 8:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: re: [LegacyUG] Migration of Data/photos. Les, Making a multimedia backup (a zipped file) and restoring it (extracting or unzipping it) is the best way of moving multimedia files (pictures, sound and video files) attached to a family file from one computer to a new computer, or to send them to another person along with a GEDCOM file. Just backup your multimedia files on the first computer and unzip them on the new computer. The big problem is when pictures are saved to a folder under the user's Documents folder. If the user account on the two computers don't have the same user account name, Windows 7 and Windows 8 the result is that Legacy won't find the pictures. When this happens the pictures will have to be located and reattached in Legacy. The multimedia backup contains not just your pictures, but also includes the directories and subdirectories that your pictures are in. So when you restore, please restore only to C:\ because that is the starting point from where the directory structure will be recreated. This is really important. Please see the article "Moving Legacy Pictures from One Computer to Another" at http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsPicturesMoving.asp for details. Jim Legacy Family Tree Technical Support -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Leslie Jackson" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Migration of Data/photos. > > Hello Legacy UG, > I would like to know if there is a simple way to migrate the photo > location to another directory. I had my Tree set up on a 16gb SD memory > card and want to move it all to my hard drive. When I attempted to move > the info, the pics were not found. > Will I have to re-address them one by one? Using Legacy 7.5.0.2xx. > TIA > Les Jackson 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 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
