Paula, Computer hassles are awful - always have backups and they're not so bad.
How you get the media where you want it depends on how you've saved your media. If a Legacy Media zip file then it needs to be unzipped. Media backups are unzipped using what is built in to Windows or some other zip program - not Legacy. Depending on the way you unzip, it will recreate the folders as they were and then you can move the files wherever you want OR you can choose during the unzip. Cathy Paula Ryburn wrote: > Thanks, Cathy--just the advice I needed. I can restore and then move > the whole folder (folder contents)... or unzip into the new location? > I do feel a bit embarrassed to be asking such basic questions! The > loss of my drive has me a bit loopy. Thanks again. --P > > > *From:* Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> > *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Sent:* Saturday, July 26, 2014 1:21 AM > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Recovering after crash > > Hi Paula, > > Sherry has answered most of your queries. > > Re the photos and other media. > Put them where you want them and then use the Media Relinker tool to fix > the links in Legacy. > There's no need to leave them at the Legacy 7 default if that's where > you put them before. > If you like using the defaults, put them in Documents\Legacy Family > Tree\Media > > Cathy > > Paula Ryburn wrote: > > > > Hello all - I am in the process of recovering from a hard drive crash. > > Please feel free to point me to a page with all the answers to my > > questions, of course, but here are my questions... > > > > I have my v8 database & media file backups on external drive. > > Is my v8 customer ID the same as my v7.5 customer ID? (for Deluxe) > > > > Due to being an excellent pack rat (?), I have my old computer & will > > be copying over most of my apps circa early 2012. > > Should I copy Legacy v7.x from the old PC to the new one (including > > database), upgrade to v8, and restore from latest backup? > > Or should I just download v8, and restore from latest backup? > > I like the simplicity of the latter, but am I over-looking something? > > For example, I seem to remember that the v8 conversion left all my > > photo files in the C:/Legacy/Pictures folder, rather than moving them > > over to My Documents. Is that an issue at all? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > --Paula in Texas > > > > > 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
