A space is counted as three characters in Windows. So it's a good idea to not leave blank spaces in file names and folder names. Use an underscore or hyphen to separate words.
Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 9:29 PM, marion wimsett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Every single one of the paths and file names have spaces in them - both in > the ones that are linking and the ones that are not. On my own tree I have a > similar format in the way of spaces and there is no problem, so I don't feel > it will be that but I will change things bit by bit first - the type of > extension then change the file name (leaving spaces in) and at the end will > remove spaces if needs be but I will wait for Brian first, he has done a lot > of work on this to date. Thank you for the suggestion, will keep it in mind. > > Regards, > > Marion > > On 13 August 2015 at 11:52, BobsTree2-Gmail <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Some versions of Windows used to have problems with "space" characters in >> paths and filenames. This is easily fixed by enclosing the entire path in >> "double quotes". Does that help? >> >> Bob Hansen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
