Thanks Jenny, that's the perfect solution. And yes, I guess I didn't make it clear, I'm looking for un-attached picture files that I can get rid of. Legacy says I'm not missing any multimedia files but it's those extra pictures that I no longer reference and want to get rid of. I don't know if I would have ever thought about looking for that indicator using the Picture Center. As much as I hate the Picture Center and its relative archaic interface, it does have some very useful purposes. Thanks again.
Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 4:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Finding unlinked multimedia files On 09/09/2014 23:29, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Recently I’ve been going through all my multimedia photos to crop, > rotate, and generally clean up their appearance. In doing so, I came > across several documents that are no longer part of my main family > file yet they remain in one of the linked paths and folders where all > the other documents and photos are found by Legacy. Typically these > have been things like marriage documents but later research determined > that they were for a person with the identical name in the same area > but not the person in my file. That marriage was deleted but due to > human forgetfulness, the marriage document remained in the folder with > all the other marriage documents. > > Is there a way for Legacy to determine what files in a given folder > are not linked anywhere in Legacy? I’m using v7.5 and am well familiar > with the option to “Check All Media Locations” but this will make a > list of MISSING files, and the same option can also unlink > unreferenced Media FOLDERS. But what I want is an option to make a > list of UNREFERENCED FILES found in any of the media locations. I’d be > curious to know if v8 has this capability over v7.5. (Yeah, I’m > getting close to making the switch…just a few more bug swats > especially in the reports area and I jump in.) > I presume you are talking about documents that were originally attached to Sources or Source Citations. But are you talking about documents that were attached as Documents or as Pictures? I'm not sure about the former, but for images I bring up the folder I want to "clean" in the Picture Centre and look for any that don't have a - in the first column. They're the ones I can delete. I used to do that in version 7.5 and do it now in version 8. I always do a check for missing media afterwards just in case I have accidentally deleted something that was attached somewhere, but haven't ever done so yet. -- Jenny M Benson 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
