RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations
Jeff, I don't know a way to find the locations of all the picutures directly either. wrt 1. In the case of pictures for eg., Legacy opens the last folder used. Personally I am rather glad it does as I have found the need for more than one picture file. Initially I had one containing jpgs of documents and one containg jpgs of pictures but the former became just too big for convenience so I have created others. I cannot really, therefore, have a default as such. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:21:38 -0500 I found the Access table that lists the images and ther locations. It is TBLbr. So I have the answer to #2. #1 is still valid. The customaized picture pad does not seem to stick. Jeff malkajef wrote: I am trying to organize the pictures I included in my Legacy file. In doing so I am encountering several problems I could use help with: 1) I have customized Legacy by setting a default path for pictures. Yet, despite that, when I try to add a picture, the folder that Legacy opens for me to choose from is not the one I set in the customize screen. Could be a Legacy bug. 2) By looking at View\master lists\Picture Locations I get a list that shows 5 locations on my hard drive. I would like to put all the images in the one default location, but to move them there I need to know which pictures are in these different locations so I can move them and there seems to be no way for Legacy to identify them for me. That is, there is no Show List button to click on. Is there another way to identify which images are in which locations? If I knew which Access table actually has that information, I could do it that way too. Anyone know? Thanks. Jeff _ Windows LiveĀ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations
Jeff, Reply inserted Ron Ferguson From: malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:04:20 -0500 In the case of pictures for eg., Legacy opens the last folder used. True until you restart Legacy. Then it goes back to the My documents folder. Either way, the fact that it does not follow what is set as the default folder in customization suggests a simple bug in the program. (Easy to do. I've done the same). It sticks to the last folder to have been opened on mine even on restart. They all happen to be in My Documents but there are 5 of them and it always opens at the last one used. I still have C:\Legacy\Pictures\ set as default but it is empty and Legacy never opens at that file. As I say I do not wish to have a default which would be summoned automatically. Jeff ronald ferguson wrote: Jeff, I don't know a way to find the locations of all the picutures directly either. wrt 1. In the case of pictures for eg., Legacy opens the last folder used. Personally I am rather glad it does as I have found the need for more than one picture file. Initially I had one containing jpgs of documents and one containg jpgs of pictures but the former became just too big for convenience so I have created others. I cannot really, therefore, have a default as such. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:21:38 -0500 I found the Access table that lists the images and ther locations. It is TBLbr. So I have the answer to #2. #1 is still valid. The customaized picture pad does not seem to stick. Jeff malkajef wrote: I am trying to organize the pictures I included in my Legacy file. In doing so I am encountering several problems I could use help with: 1) I have customized Legacy by setting a default path for pictures. Yet, despite that, when I try to add a picture, the folder that Legacy opens for me to choose from is not the one I set in the customize screen. Could be a Legacy bug. 2) By looking at View\master lists\Picture Locations I get a list that shows 5 locations on my hard drive. I would like to put all the images in the one default location, but to move them there I need to know which pictures are in these different locations so I can move them and there seems to be no way for Legacy to identify them for me. That is, there is no Show List button to click on. Is there another way to identify which images are in which locations? If I knew which Access table actually has that information, I could do it that way too. Anyone know? Thanks. Jeff _ Windows LiveT Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations
I use a hierarchical set of folders for family pictures. Legacy successfully finds all the pictures I've linked into legacy in these folders, but because I have the pics in a logical (to me) order I can also find what I want for any other purpose. As I have scanned in several family members' photo albums, I have many pics not chosen for Legacy in the same folders (all backed up, of course) For Documents I use one folder with names that begin with the Legacy Source File ID number and can really only find them from that number. I also have a file of icons I use with some events (sailing ship for early immigration to America, Minuteman for fighting in American Revolution, Caduceus, etc.) I'm having trouble understanding what benefit there would be in having all pics in Legacy in one folder. Individual ones would be hard to find and I would either need a duplicate in a special Legacy folder or to keep family pics in 2 places. Legacy looks where I used last first, but it is easy to find pics in the hierarchy if that's not where the next pic to enter is. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:47 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Jeff, I don't know a way to find the locations of all the picutures directly either. wrt 1. In the case of pictures for eg., Legacy opens the last folder used. Personally I am rather glad it does as I have found the need for more than one picture file. Initially I had one containing jpgs of documents and one containg jpgs of pictures but the former became just too big for convenience so I have created others. I cannot really, therefore, have a default as such. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:21:38 -0500 I found the Access table that lists the images and ther locations. It is TBLbr. So I have the answer to #2. #1 is still valid. The customaized picture pad does not seem to stick. Jeff malkajef wrote: I am trying to organize the pictures I included in my Legacy file. In doing so I am encountering several problems I could use help with: 1) I have customized Legacy by setting a default path for pictures. Yet, despite that, when I try to add a picture, the folder that Legacy opens for me to choose from is not the one I set in the customize screen. Could be a Legacy bug. 2) By looking at View\master lists\Picture Locations I get a list that shows 5 locations on my hard drive. I would like to put all the images in the one default location, but to move them there I need to know which pictures are in these different locations so I can move them and there seems to be no way for Legacy to identify them for me. That is, there is no Show List button to click on. Is there another way to identify which images are in which locations? If I knew which Access table actually has that information, I could do it that way too. Anyone know? Thanks. Jeff _ Windows LiveT Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations
Excellent points. I'm rethinking my approach. Originally my idea is to have a way to easily locate and include all the images I used for Legacy when I shared my data with someone else. But I've since discovered that Passage Express does a good job of finding them wherever they are so that point becomes moot. I suppose the Legacy backup of multimedia does it too. Just feeling my way as I learn the ins and outs of Legacy. Jeff - Original Message - From: Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 5:11 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations I use a hierarchical set of folders for family pictures. Legacy successfully finds all the pictures I've linked into legacy in these folders, but because I have the pics in a logical (to me) order I can also find what I want for any other purpose. As I have scanned in several family members' photo albums, I have many pics not chosen for Legacy in the same folders (all backed up, of course) For Documents I use one folder with names that begin with the Legacy Source File ID number and can really only find them from that number. I also have a file of icons I use with some events (sailing ship for early immigration to America, Minuteman for fighting in American Revolution, Caduceus, etc.) I'm having trouble understanding what benefit there would be in having all pics in Legacy in one folder. Individual ones would be hard to find and I would either need a duplicate in a special Legacy folder or to keep family pics in 2 places. Legacy looks where I used last first, but it is easy to find pics in the hierarchy if that's not where the next pic to enter is. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:47 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Jeff, I don't know a way to find the locations of all the picutures directly either. wrt 1. In the case of pictures for eg., Legacy opens the last folder used. Personally I am rather glad it does as I have found the need for more than one picture file. Initially I had one containing jpgs of documents and one containg jpgs of pictures but the former became just too big for convenience so I have created others. I cannot really, therefore, have a default as such. Ron Ferguson _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: malkajef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:21:38 -0500 I found the Access table that lists the images and ther locations. It is TBLbr. So I have the answer to #2. #1 is still valid. The customaized picture pad does not seem to stick. Jeff malkajef wrote: I am trying to organize the pictures I included in my Legacy file. In doing so I am encountering several problems I could use help with: 1) I have customized Legacy by setting a default path for pictures. Yet, despite that, when I try to add a picture, the folder that Legacy opens for me to choose from is not the one I set in the customize screen. Could be a Legacy bug. 2) By looking at View\master lists\Picture Locations I get a list that shows 5 locations on my hard drive. I would like to put all the images in the one default location, but to move them there I need to know which pictures are in these different locations so I can move them and there seems to be no way for Legacy to identify them for me. That is, there is no Show List button to click on. Is there another way to identify which images are in which locations? If I knew which Access table actually has that information, I could do it that way too. Anyone know? Thanks. Jeff _ Windows LiveT Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail
RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations
Cary, I started off your way, or something very similar, but rapidly became disenchanted with continually having to change folders when inserting a new item. I really hate the way paths are selected but accept that it's a method in common usage and I can't think of a better. I accept that my storage involves duplicates and hence extra disc space but the latter is now pretty cheap. Nevertheless, I think it is up to each of us to individually choose whichever method suits us best. Ron Ferguson BTW Jeff, I didn't know about using Scrapbook either as it's a function I don't use. Obvious when one thinks about it but, like you, would have expected it to be an option under Picture Location (as well). _ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ *New Blogs: The Murder of Adam Mather; Legacy Searches* Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/Grimshaw/ __ From: Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re: multimedia files and locations Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:11:09 -0600 I use a hierarchical set of folders for family pictures. Legacy successfully finds all the pictures I've linked into legacy in these folders, but because I have the pics in a logical (to me) order I can also find what I want for any other purpose. As I have scanned in several family members' photo albums, I have many pics not chosen for Legacy in the same folders (all backed up, of course) For Documents I use one folder with names that begin with the Legacy Source File ID number and can really only find them from that number. I also have a file of icons I use with some events (sailing ship for early immigration to America, Minuteman for fighting in American Revolution, Caduceus, etc.) I'm having trouble understanding what benefit there would be in having all pics in Legacy in one folder. Individual ones would be hard to find and I would either need a duplicate in a special Legacy folder or to keep family pics in 2 places. Legacy looks where I used last first, but it is easy to find pics in the hierarchy if that's not where the next pic to enter is. Cary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
