RE: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread Cathy
Hi Leo, That actually won't work unless in your Word Processor you do some extra steps. Yes if you tick the embed pictures in Legacy they will show in your Word processor when you open the rtf report - but if you move the original pictures they won't. They are really only "linked" to the file

RE: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread leo macdonald
Hi Marilyn, if you are just trying to do up a Descendant report or Ancestor report and want to include the pictures in the report so they will show up in your daughter in law's computer then all you have to do is: go to reports and pick out the report you want to send or give her - go to the rep

RE: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread ronald ferguson
Marilyn, Heather and Susan have given you some leads and I would not wish to complicate matters but you do not say if your photos used in Legacy are in a separate folder or scattered over various folders - if the latter you could have problems and you would be better putting them in one folder

Re: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread Krones2004
Marilyn: I'm an oldey also. But you are right. Legacy creates a "shortcut" to the photos and documents that are stored on the computer. What I do is to create a file on my desktop called "Family Photos" and keep my photos in there. I organize the photos by folders - usually a folder f

Re: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread Susan Daily
Marilyn, In addition to what Heather stated, I would like to note that if your daughter has Legacy installed on her computer, you could even just bring her your Legacy family backup file and multimedia backup file, then do a Restore on your daughter's computer, and it should make it look like your

Re: [LegacyUG] photos question

2007-02-11 Thread Heather Stovold
Well, your daughter is correct. Legacy stores the "path" (the location of the folder on the computer) where each picture is. You will probably need to do a "Backup Multimedia Files" - then restore the multimedia files on your daughters computer. I'm not sure if the Gedcom transfers the links o