[LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread circe
I started off naming all my thumbnail photographs of people themselves, with only their RIN. Then when the file became too large - and took at least ten minutes to back up the Multimedia Files, I separated out off-shoot families and re-numbered some of the RINs to compact the list. Then it occurre

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:07:37 -0500, ci...@treadles.ca wrote: >are RIN-numbered files anchored to their >entry? Nope. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.a

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:36:23 -0500, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: >On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:07:37 -0500, ci...@treadles.ca wrote: > >>are RIN-numbered files anchored to their >>entry? > >Nope. > Let me clarify. The file is anchored to the individual in Legacy. But if you change the individual's RIN, t

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread circe
That's what I understood from your first post, thank you though for clarifying it, especially as my originating query wasn't very well worded. So - a warning to everyone - Don't start the name of any of your images with the RIN. You might end up not finding them attached to that person later on d

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread Jenny M Benson
wrote >That reminds me - a little "gadget" I'd like to see but not terirbly >important to the overall use of Legacy, is a small facility that checks >the images directory and lists ones NOT attached to a name, BMD, event, >etc. entry. We already have that! In Picture Centre the upper central se

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming photographs, was Add an Event "Census" to Everyone

2009-12-19 Thread Heather Stovold
THANKS! I didn't know that existed, and have worried that I had pictures in my genealogy folders that I had missed attaching! > We already have that! > > In Picture Centre the upper central section shows a list of all the > files in a selected folder and if their is a + in the U column it means