I use Media Relinker occasionally and it does a great job IF you have not renamed any of your files. If you have renamed a file you will have to relink it manually which can be time consuming if you have a lot of files that were renamed. I only rename my files when I’m doing a major overhaul of my media files and want the file names to be consistent.
All of my image and other source files are kept in a folder outside of Legacy then link everything within Legacy to that folder (and subfolders). It was residing on my hard drive, but now that I’m using two laptops I find it easier to just keep it on OneDrive so both copies of Legacy will only be using the current data file and they both have access to OneDrive. DropBox should be able to do the same thing. I don’t use DropBox because I have more storage on OneDrive and I have had issues with DropBox holding my data hostage when I didn’t upgrade for more space because it was getting close to the limit. After that I never used it again. Why pay for it when I can get more space for free from Microsoft. Bill Boswell From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 7:56 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Media File Transfer Richard, The Media Relinker is NOT a recipe for disaster. It does not AUTO LINK files. When it finds files of the same name as the one that is missing it PRESENTS them for you to make a choice whether it is the right file in the right folder or the right file in a different folder or the wrong file altogether. Re the media zip problem with path length. I don't zip my Legacy Media so I haven't encountered the problem. I backup to an external drive and than copy from the external drive to a new computer and then re-establish the Dropbox link as the media is in Dropbox and it's quicker to copy the files than download them all again from Dropbox. The only time I use the Legacy Media backup option is if I'm sending part of my file to a cousin and want to send the related media as well. This isn't something I do very often. Cathy Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: Cathy, The media relinker seems like a recipe for disaster. If it should find a file with the right name in some off the wall folder it probably is not the sane file and I wouldn't want my laptop Legacy to mismatch the desktop (disaster). If anyone is creating incomplete media backups due to exceeding the 260 character filepath/name then it is a serious problem. If they only have Legacy on one computer I don't know they could check for the problem but they should. Since George does have a 2nd computer with Legacy it is important to all of us to discover if problem is from exceeding 260 char. George, What if you create a media backup with shorter filename. My default is: vanwasshnova-media 2016-12-06 9.28.37 AM.zip but could be shortened to vw-media Dec-06.zip at least to try to fit more media files if not all. R ichard On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>> wrote: George, First find out where you unzipped your media backup or copied your media folders to. Then at Options - Customise 6.2 enter your top media folder (assuming you have media in a number of sub-folders under one folder) That may be enough to find all your media re-linked If not, go to Tools - Media Relinker. It will search your computer for all media files and then present the ones it finds with the same names as ones linked to Legacy so that you can confirm whether or not it has found the right file. If you use the button that says something like also relink others in this fol der, the task is quicker. Cathy George 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 *F rom:*LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com <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 <mailto:exma...@gmail.com> <mailto:exma...@gmail.com <mailto: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 deskto p 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 &nb sp; 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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