Thanks Cathy

Madeleine E.  Mitchell,
Oak Hammock 
Gainesville, FL 32608-8902
USA
🎄Sent from my iPad

> On Apr 30, 2017, at 1:27 AM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Madeleine,
> It seems in this case it would be quicker to relink them yourself by going to 
> the gallery where they are linked. This information is on the missing media 
> list.
> When you click on the icons for the missing media, you get the choice to use 
> the Media Relinker or to find them yourself.
> You may want to copy them out of your Family Tree Maker Media folder and link 
> to them in a sub-folder of your Legacy Media.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> Madeleine Mitchell wrote:
>> 
>> Leon, thanks for your reply.
>> I have specified the C: drive but the .tmp file or .docx file is in a 
>> Family Tree Maker Media folder on the C:drive. It takes about 20 mins 
>> for the for the relinker to search my C:drive. I have many media 
>> files, not Legacy ones.
>> I did an add media to the persons event or source detail and managed 
>> to reduce the number of missing media from 18 to 14, but I thought 
>> maybe there was some quicker way to tell the re-linker where to look. 
>> Apparently not.
>> Madeleine
>> 
>> Madeleine E. Mitchell,
>> Oak Hammock
>> Gainesville, FL 32608-8902
>> USA
>> 🎄Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Apr 29, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Leon Chapman <chap...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Madeleine;
>>> 
>>> When using the Relinker, you just specify the Drive(s) you want to 
>>> search (e.g., C:, D:). Normally, you would just select the C: drive. 
>>> The Relinker will search the entire drive to find your picture files. 
>>> When complete, you can choose to have them copied into the Legacy 
>>> default Media file location. You cannot specify a folder to search in 
>>> the Relinker, just a Drive.
>>> 
>>> The Family Tree Maker file could be an issue — that sounds like a 
>>> database and not a picture file. Legacy will only link picture files 
>>> with an extension of JPEG, PNG & document files like PDF, Word. 
>>> Normally, you would only link picture files. So, I am not sure what 
>>> you mean by FTM file??
>>> 
>>> Leon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 29, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Madeleine E. Mitchell 
>>>> <rngma...@gmail.com <mailto:rngma...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have just updated to Legacy 9. I have 16 media files which need to 
>>>> be relinked. I know which file they are in. How do I tell the 
>>>> Re-linker what file to look in? It does not seem to allow for that 
>>>> situation. I have printed out the missing files and know who they 
>>>> are associated with, but there must be some easy way to tell the 
>>>> relinker what file on my computer to look in. I have "gathered" 
>>>> files several times and the relinker is missing the file which is a 
>>>> Family Tree Maker file.
>>>> -- 
>>>> Madeleine E Mitchell,
>>>> Gainesville, FL 32608-8902
>>>> Home URLhttp://www.mymynton.com/index .htm
>>> 
>> 
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