Re: [LegacyUG] Browse for lost picture file

Don, Telling Legacy to find the file could be risky if filename is too simple such as "Vol3_Page8" or "Christmas2006" when the filename exists several places in file tree. I've made that mistake. If rename a file or group of files that are then reported missing for mutiple citations I have found

Re: [LegacyUG] Browse for lost picture file

It would be a nice feature if Legacy could open a larger window and also open the directory that you have entered as the location for the Picture Files or any of the other media locations. Since Legacy does know to go to the directory you entered to search itself for your file, it seems logical

[LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy "events" or "Notes"

Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have spent the last day or so checking them all out. To Ward & Carl - no, OCR is not included in my Scanner which is an Epson Perfection 4490. To JLB, the docs I want to copy are way to long to do a split screen and type. T

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy "events" or "Notes"

Bill Rhodes wrote: Thanks to all who responded to my request for help and advice. I have spent the last day or so checking them all out. snipped--- My question is, will it or any of the other for sale OCR's do a better job than the FreeOCR, or do they all work the same and produc

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy "events" or "Notes"

Hi Bill, According to the add from epson america the 4490 comes with loads of software. It advertises ABBY fine reader which is an OCR. If you have the cd's that came with the machine check out if the ABBY software is there to load. In my experience there is nearly always something to clean up.

Re: [LegacyUG] sudden crash - RESOLVED

Thanks to all of you knowledgeable folks that have helped me with this issue. It has been resolved. Sherry from Support got back with me very quickly (Thanks Sherry) and suggested an uninstall and reinstall. I did that, and still had the same problem. Then went to the site link provided b

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: Unable to copy scanned documents into Legacy "events" or "Notes"

Bill, You should consider the possibility that the exercise of transcribing, and then abstracting, the document(s) would be beneficial in a number of ways. I always find that I learn so much in the process of transcribing. I see things that I didn¹t notice before, and somehow I just absorb the doc