George, Are your media files in one to 3 big folders or do you have multi branching trees with sub>sub> sub folders? I do and the file path and names are quite long. When Legacy Backup creates a zip file it greatly extends the path and sometimes it can exceed the Windows max. file path of 260 characters.
Here is a path to some of my media: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\V\Docs\church documents\ When Legacy creates a media backup zip file it adds roughly 100 characters to the file path: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\vanwasshnova-media 2016-12-06 9.28.37 AM.zip\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\V\Docs\church documents\ Depending on the subfolders and filename lengths you can easily exceed 260 char max and your backup media zip files will not contain all of your media and are then worth less (not totally worthless). You will not see any errors reported. The longer file path plus name media will simply not show up in the media backup. I considered changing the Legacy Family Tree folder name to LFT8 as it appears doubled in the zip file. Could that be your problem? On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:49 AM, George <georg...@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: > Richard: > > > > I am still having a problem. > > > > When I followed your instructions to test all media folders, it tells me I > am missing 8,000 files. > > > > George > > > > *From:* LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On > Behalf Of *Richard Van Wasshnova > *Sent:* December 15, 2016 1:15 PM > *To:* Legacy User Group > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Media File Transfer > > > > Hi George, > > On your laptop click: Options>Locations>under 6.2 Test all Media Folders. > > Tic the 2nd box "make a list of missing media" and Proceed. > > Are there missing Media files? If not your only problem is the duplicates. > > If there are missing files let us know. > > > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since you cannot restore your media files from within Legacy you cannot be > overwriting media. That is why you are not seeing the warning about > overwriting media. The difference in files on the desktop and the laptop > probably means you have media files on the desktop which are not linked to > anything in your file so they are not included in the backup of your Legacy > media and were not restored to the laptop when you extracted the media from > your media backup file. > > To restore from your media backup you need to use Windows compressed file > tools or another program which can extract files from a .zip compressed > file. > > Brian Kelly > > > > On 14-Dec-16 2:07 PM, George wrote: > > I purchased a new laptop to take south with me this year. I have been able > to transfer my data to it with no problem. The first time I transferred my > media I followed the instructions available on Legacy's site. Everything > seemed to go well. I decided to check the number of items in the media > folder on the laptop compared to those on my desktop. I have about 11,000 > items on my desktop but only about 8,000 on the laptop. > > Further when I transfer my data file it asks if I want to overwrite the > existing file, and I say yes and everything seems to be OK with that part. > However it does not ask me to overwrite the media files. Would this not put > duplicates in the media file? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > George >
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