Priscilla, I assume your files are in multi-branching directories like mine are. My default location of media files: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\V\
>From there a typical path to a file is: Docs\Civil_Records\France\Dept_Meuse\Marriage_Villers_&_Gratriiau.jpg The combined default and specific file path is easily under windows max however the backup media zip file inserts this ahead of that path: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\vanwasshnova-media 2017-04-19 9.41.09 PM.zip\ This total path gets to be near window max: C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\vanwasshnova-media 2017-04-19 9.41.09 PM.zip\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\V\Docs\Civil_Records\France\Dept_Meuse\Marriage_Villers_&_Gratriiau.jpg If the filename were 20 characters longer it would simply not be added to the zip backup with no warning. Only when I restore media to my laptop would I realize the oversize file is missing. To shorten the backup you could delete the time of day 9.41.09 PM from the dafault (11 characters) or change Legacy Family Tree directory to LFT8 (28 character savings since it appears twice in the path). Good luck, Richard Van Wasshnova On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 5:51 AM, <priscilla.gla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone not use Legacy Family Tree for media? The media backup and > Media Relinker are unreliable and I’m considering not using the software > for recording media any more. Yesterday I found out that the backups that > I religiously did were not including masses of documents and media. In the > mail archives I found a comment by Richard Wasshnova that Legacy adds a > considerable number of characters to the path of a given medium. Although > I have used a little utility called TLPD to search out any paths that are > too long, it seems my effort has been for naught. > > > > In addition to asking whether anyone uses Legacy Family Tree only for data > and not media, I’m very curious now to learn how other people are naming > their documents to avoid the path too long problem. > > > > Many thanks, > > Priscilla Glasow > > >
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