Hi Brian,
I opened the GEDCOM file in Word - all 3198 pages of it. I searched for a few names of images I have in my FTM Tree and it found none. I then searched for the term “jpg” (without the quotes) and it only found instances where the term "jpg" came up in notes I had made. The main problem seems to be that FTM does not give me the option of including media files, or it now seems even links, when I export to GEDCOM5.5. The dialog box shows that I have three choices under “Output format”, namely “Family Tree Maker” – “GEDCOM 5.5 (standard)” and “GEDCOM for FTM 16”. Below this there are boxes next to 7 items, namely: · Privatize living people · Include private facts · Include private notes · Include media files · Include tasks · Include charts, reports, and books · Include only items linked to selected individuals When I choose “GEDCOM 5.5(standard)” the last 4 in the list are greyed out INCLUDING “include media files”. It appears that the links do not show in the GEDCOM file either so I can see that Legacy doesn’t know I had links in the original FTM file. Surely Legacy must get new users who were using FTM before. Do all of these new users have to abandon Legacy 8 or manually link every image? I don’t have the time or interest in spending days if not months doing this as I have over 2300 images. I realize the problem stems with FTM but I was hoping that a solution existed. Thanks for your attempts to help!! Diane -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: January-09-14 12:14 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to get FTM media files to export to Legacy8 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 <mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com> br...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.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
