If this is the correct solution, then I would like Legacy to say so. Option 6.2 is precisely where I went to try to deal with the problem.
If all I have to do is point this media pointer to my Legacy folder on my K drive and have it then find all the media files in the Pix, Videos, etc. folders, that would be ideal. But since it is a single pointer and not specific to media type, I do not know what folder to point it at. I certainly do not want it "discovering" media files, such as reports, that I have created from my tree and stored either as PDF or JPG files within my Legacy database folder but intentionally not in my media folders. But I am unwilling to experiment with this, since there are so many implications and possible consequences if I do it wrong. They really should have anticipated this issue when they eliminated the media-type-specific location options and prepared a guideline for how to make this migration. ________________________________ From: Mary Moyer <mgmo...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media Folder Wesley You don't need to migrate anything. I think what you need to do is set your default location for media. Legacy8 has a default location, but it's easy to change to what you want. Options > Customize > Locations > item 6.2 (default locations for media) Mary On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Paul Gray <graypa...@outlook.com> wrote: Wesley, > >I am trying to understand your situation but I can’t. Please bear with me as I >ask in a different way questions I’m sure you have already answered.. I am >absolutely positive that your media can stay exactly where they are, and that >there is no reason to change anything. I have my media (only a few items) on a >separate drive, and they are linked identically in 7.5 and 8.0. > >I don’t think what’s in 6.2 has anything to do with existing links. > >So, with respect to your existing media, are the links to the K drive not >there? I think you are saying that you can no longer see the images, is that >true? > >Paul Gray > > >From:Wesley Johnston [mailto:wwjohnsto...@yahoo.com] >Sent: December-03-13 11:20 AM >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media >Folder > >Your configuration of folders is very similar to mine, and like yours I have >been using this setup for years - many years. And no prior Legacy upgrade has >caused any problems with this, since I could always customize the locations >for each type of folder. > >But Legacy 8 is clearly different in this regard, since this level of >granularity is no longer there in the customization options. And the Media >Relinker does not appear to have a granularity level below that of entire hard >drive. > >So I am stuck here, not knowing what my choices are in terms of their >long-term implications > >So I am in a situation that I need to know what to do to properly restore the >images that are no longer showing (except for one) on the first tree that I >converted as a guinea pig. (I have a great many more trees that all reference >the same pool of folders of Legacy-related media files. So I want to make sure >that I do this first one right, since making the wrong decision up front could >have a lot of consequences.) > >I am going to copy and paste again here the current state of my understanding, >based on Brian's note, so that he can clarify this. I really need to know the >full implications of the choices that are available to me, since there are so >many files involved. > >---- repeat of questions for Brian ----- >It looks like I am either being forced to either (a) dedicate my entire K >drive to Legacy by the Media Relinker looking only at the entire drive and not >at a specific designated folder and all of its sub-folders or (b) dump all my >files into a single Media folder, dealing with file name duplications in the >short term and a massive hodge-podge of files on an on-going basis for as long >as I use Legacy in the future. > >Are these really my only two choices? > >If those are really what I am being forced to do, then I will have to go with >B, ugly as it is. >---- end of repeat of questions for Brian ----- > > >________________________________ > >From:William Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com> >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:54 AM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media >Folder > >The way I do it set up customized folders. A main folder for just photos of >people and cemeteries. The second one is just for source images. The people >photos folder has subfolders according to surnames; cemeteries by the name of >the cemetery and surnames for those I have photos of graves. > >For source images, I have subfolders by category: census, obituaries, >letters, certificates (birth, marriage, death), etc. I also have a category >for text items and PDF files. > >If you set this up first and get it organized, it will be easier to find your >images. The only thing is you may have to relink everything or get Legacy to >do it for you. I've been using the same setup for years when I was using >other software and they were all pointed to these folders. Lumping everything >together in one folder is a terrible idea because when you start getting into >hundreds of images, it's a very slow process trying to find anything. I >always select to leave my images where they are and not copy them. I haven't >found a way to make this a permanent selection within Legacy 8 or I overlooked >it. > >Bill Boswell > >From:Wesley Johnston [mailto:wwjohnsto...@yahoo.com] >Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:57 AM >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media >Folder > >I am still not clear what to do here. > >I see that the Option 6.2 is for those people willing to let Legacy manage >their media and store it all in a single location, which may be what I wind up >being forced to do, even though it will cause a great deal of immediate term >work and a lot more on-going management effort on my part because everything >is lumped together in one enormous folder with no way other than file name and >file type to distinguish people pix from source pix from video clips from >location pix ... > >That is because the Media Relinker tool does not seem to have a granularity >finer than entire disk drive level. My K drive is not exclusively for my >Legacy files. So there are tens of thousands of other media files on the K >drive that I do not want include in the search by the Media Relinker. But >there seems to be no way to do that. Am I missing something about how to >configure the Media Relinker, or is it going to look at my entire K drive? The >notion that any media file on my computer or on a particular drive is fair >game for Legacy makes Legacy a very nasty neighbor. > >It looks like I am either being forced to either (a) dedicate my entire K >drive to Legacy by the Media Relinker looking only at the entire drive and not >at a specific designated folder and all of its sub-folders or (b) dump all my >files into a single Media folder, dealing with file name duplications in the >short term and a massive hodge-podge of files on an on-going basis for as long >as I use Legacy in the future. > >Are these really my only two choices? > >If those are really what I am being forced to do, then I will have to go with >B, ugly as it is. > >Whatever you were thinking when you convinced yourselves that this extremely >significant migration issue should be glossed over and not fully addressed in >your announcements and testing and advance online support considerations was a >self-delusion. It is one thing to create new features and ways of doing >things. It is another when you do not fully disclose and support the upgrade >from prior versions and leave so much work to your customers, work for which >there is no guidance already in place for such an obvious issue. > > >________________________________ > >From:Brian/Support <br...@legacyfamilytree.com> >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:25 AM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media >Folder > >Legacy 8, like 7.5 is quite happy to use multiple folders for media but >Legacy 8 now uses the Windows Standards for storing user data and >programs instead of a special C:\Legacy folder for the program and sub >folders of C:\Legacy for Data, and media. > >The Legacy 8 program is installed in the Windows Program Files folders >and for user data we create a set of folders under your Windows User >name in the My Documents. Use the Media Relinker tool, Limit the search >to your K: drive and Legacy 8 will find all your existing locations and >use them for your existing media. > >The Options you mention are for those users who are content to let >Legacy manage their media and store it all in a single location. You can >set that to the top folder in your K: drive media tree, if there is one >and Legacy will then open that default when you store new media, you can >then navigate from there to the folder where you want to store, or have >stored the new media you are adding. > >The ff and gbl notation on options indicates whether an option is >specific to the current family file or is a global setting which applies >to all family files. > >Brian >Customer Support >Millennia Corporation >br...@legacyfamilytree.com >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > >On 03/12/2013 7:02 AM, Wesley Johnston wrote: >> I am not at all clear on the new file structure within Legacy 8 and what I >> need to do to migrate all my folders of Pictures, Videos, Sounds. And right >> now this is a show stopper. I have no idea what I am doing nor how to get >> things right in the conversion and migration. >> >> I keep all my Legacy files on a different hard drive (K) than the default. >> There, under Legacy, I have folders for Geo, Pix, Sounds, Videos ... which >> were the Legacy 7.5 file structure. >> >> When I opened one of my existing FDB files in Legacy 8 (by navigating to the >> K drive using the Windows dialog box within Legacy), I was asked to convert >> the file and given three options, I chose "just convert my family file and >> open it" since I do not want the files to wind up in the My Documents folder. >> >> It was only when I went into Options / Customize / 6. Locations that I >> discovered that there are no longer specific folders for each media type. >> Instead option 6.2 only points to "media files (ff)" (and I have no idea >> what "(ff)" means nor the "(gbl)" in options 6.1 and 6.3. >> >> So what am I supposed to do? >> >> It looks like I am supposed to create a new folder named Media on my K drive >> under my Legacy folders and then move all my Pix, Videos, Sources, Geo files >> into this folder???? But that means lumping all my source pix and my people >> pix into the same massive collection of files, making this media folder an >> enormous mess and raising the possibility of duplicate file names coming >> from within the previously separate Legacy 7.5 folders. >> >> I definitely do NOT want Legacy 8 pointing to the default media folder on >> the C drive. I want all my media files -- preferably kept in good order in >> separate folders as with prior versions of Legacy -- on my K drive. >> >> I have been through many Legacy versions, but this one is very definitely >> not trivial nor transparent. This appears to involve major restructuring of >> the underlying folders in a radically different way than prior versions >> handled media files. And I am staggered at the apparent implications of this >> -- both in the effort to migrate the files to a "media" folder and in the >> mess that a single media folder creates -- and also stunned at the complete >> absence of any explicit addressing of this issue on the Legacy web site's >> announcement of Legacy 8. > > > >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 > > > > >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 > > >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 > > >________________________________ > >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3657/6888 - Release Date: 12/03/13 > > >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 > >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 > 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). 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