At one point Diane I believe you said you chose an option in FTM to export only to GEDCOM 5.5. In Legacy when we present that option we only export a limited subset of the data for individuals. Did you also choose to include the links to your media in the GEDCOM? If there were no links to media in the FTM GEDCOM then Legacy would not know that you had media linked in the original FTM file. The message from the relinker saying there are no media files in the family file is saying that Legacy did not find any media links to any media file. It can only fix links to files which are named but where the location of the file has changed or where the user has changed the name of the file so it no longer exists under the expected name.
Open the GEDCOM you exported from FTM, it is a plain text file so you can open it with Notepad or any other text editor. Use the search function to see if you can find the name of one of the files you know were attached to someone in the file. If the file name was not in the GEDCOM then you will have to go back to FTM and export a new GEDCOM. This time select the option to export for FTM itself to include the maximum information including links to the media files. Import that new GEDCOM into a new family file to see if the media links now exist. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 09-Jan-2014 10:09 AM, Diane Marcotte wrote: > Unfortunately that did not work. I transferred all 2300 media files from the > FTM folder I have into ….\Legacy Family Tree\Media as you suggested. I > then ran the Relinker tool but still get this message “There are no Media > files in this family file.†> > My FTM media is called “Latest Full Tree_Jul 15, 2008 Media†and it is > off a folder called “Family Tree Maker†on my hard-drive. First I copied > the “Latest Full Tree_Jul 15, 2008 Media†folder to Legacy Family > Tree\Media and when that didn’t work I deleted the folder and copied just > the 2300 media files. But I still get the message “There are no Media > files in this family file.†> > This is the file structure I have after installing Legacy and importing my > tree from FTM: > > You mentioned a more complicated method??? > > Thanks! > > Diane 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
