Hi
I rather suspect that you have moved to a new PC with Win 11 installed,
perhaps to Win 10, and fallen into the TRAP that Microsoft have given us
(if you let it). This is one which I will NEVER do.
They had the idea that they would provide you will a small, maybe 200MB,
of off-site disk space and have placed all or part of
C:\Users\zzzz\Documents to map to that area. That would be a good idea
since you can share those files with other users, under your control, or
across your own PCs, but actually most users would not need to do that.
The only benefit is that you can access those off-site files from a web
browser while away from home.
The other half of the issue is that many users will have a lot of files
which Microsoft, or Google and the other offerings, would want to move
to the off-site basis. My media takes 4GB for 4100 files, but my photo
collection needs 400GB for 45,000 files. So we need to make sure that we
can control which files go off-site and which must stay locally.
Now this will be based on what I am seeing on my Win 10 system, which
has been growing from Win XP and earlier. On that they have created a
E:\Users\Chris\OneDrive folder (note that I relocated my Users folder to
a second disk) with some folders, including a Documents folder. Now I
don't use that and my genealogy files are actually in
E:\Users\Chris\Documents\Chris\Genealogy\Hill and related
families\Family Tree. The double layered Chris folder is one issue that
occurred when I merged two PCs and which I need to resolve.
My guess is that your C:\Users\zzzz\Documents is actually a reference to
the one within the OneDrive structure, but you will need to identify
that this is true. It would also be worth doing searches on Google and
the Microsoft web pages on how to manage a OneDrive solution.
What I would do is to create a C:\Users\zzzz\Genealogy folder, which
should be outside of OneDrive, and then relocate your database and files
there. Before you do this I would take a Legacy backup, for both data
and media, and save it away from OneDrive.
If you have taken the default Legacy structure for files they should be
in C:\Users\zzzz\Documents\Legacy Family Tree, and therefore within the
OneDrive structure. One of my rules is to never work with default folder
structures - my data and under my control. You need to locate all of the
files related to your tree, which all begin with the same prefix, so
mine are all Hill*.*, and copy those to the new folder. I would then
copy the Media folder, or where your media files are, into the new
folder. Then I would use Legacy Customise 6.1 and 6.2 to point to the
newly copied folders. Unfortunately, you cannot relocate the Legacy
files away from ...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree and under there you
will find the settings that 6.1 and 6.2 maintain. Alternatively, you
could get Legacy to restore from the backup file and locate them into
the new folder.
Hopefully, that will resolve your issues and you can finally remove the
old files within the OneDrive structure.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Johnson" <davel...@gmail.com>
To "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Date 16/12/2022 15:49:45
Subject Re: [LegacyUG] Serious problem with Legacy 9.0.0.414
All of my files are in OneDrive. How would you suggest I store them
locally?
Dave
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:00 AM Chris Hill
<chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> wrote:
I know that there are issues with OneDrive, and potentially with any
off-site storage.
The question is whether OneDrive wants, or can, maintain a duplicate
set of files across its own system and on your PC, or if it will keep
them remotely and just download those which you need to access
locally. Running that with 24K files may cause networking and
performance issues.
Personalty I would never use an off-site solution for a lot of files
and insist that they are stored locally, with the option to make
off-site backup copies.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Johnson" <davel...@gmail.com>
To "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Date 15/12/2022 20:40:30
Subject Re: [LegacyUG] Serious problem with Legacy 9.0.0.414
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately Legacy knows where all my
files are. They are stored in OneDrive. Customize/Locations have
been set correctly.. But the problem persists.
Dave
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 11:12 AM Chris Hill
<chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> wrote:
The FIRST rule on Legacy images is to ensure that they are located
in the Media folder, or its sub-folders, as specified in Options /
Customise / 6.2.
The SECOND rule is to never rename or relocate them, since all that
Legacy remembers are the folder and the file name.
The THIRD rule is to have a standardised structure for file and
folder names.
From Customise / 6, use the View Current List of Media Folders. In
an ideal situation it will list one or folders with the structure
[Default Media Folder], followed by its sub-folders if necessary.
The [Default Media Folder] is that specified in 6.2. Against each
entry in that list, you have a number of Options.
1. Show List will show you a list of the individuals connected to
that folder.
2. Add will allow you to add a new folder and Change will allow you
to change it. Personally, I would not change it but use the next
option to restructure it.
3. At the bottom, there is an option to combine one entry into
another. Using that, Legacy will work through the entries in the
folder and change the entries in the individual to point to the new
folder. What it will not do is to physically relocate the files,
which would be nice.
4. The Test All Media Folders will scan through the system and
identify files that it cannot locate, listing the expected file.
That leaves you with the question of relocating the files. From
Tools / Media Relinker you can get Legacy to scan through for PC and
try to locate the missing files, assuming that you have not renamed
them. Once scanned, they will show you, one at a time, each matched
file showing where it is and where it should be. You have the option
to link to the matched file, and possibly for other files in the
same folder, or to skip it. Again, the files do not get relocated
and only the link is modified, and it would be nice if Legacy could
relocate them.
If you have a missing file and double click on it you will get the
Find File option. That will give you the option of running the Media
Relinker, or get Legacy to search for the file or, and often better,
of doing the search manually on the basis that you probably know
where the file is. Once found, you can quickly link to it.
Personally, I would not run the Media Relinker on the basis that
from the Test All Media Folders report I can quickly identify that I
have either just renamed a file or that I have a folder which I can
quickly use Windows Explorer to put in the correct location. Also,
with my PC it can take a long time to scan and I generally know
where my media are or should be. It would be useful to limit the
Relink My Media to start at a folder and not at the top of the
drive.
With renamed files you have the issue of resetting them to match
what is set in Legacy. If it is correctly linked in Legacy, then the
Picture Centre will allow you to rename it, but it does not work the
other way round.
It would be nice if Legacy gave you better tools to manipulate the
links and files. In my case, I used Access to modify the Legacy
datebase and Explorer to relocate the folders and files.
Hopefully, all that you need to do is locate the correct folders and
relocate them to the correct positions, and ensure that they are
correctly linked within Legacy.
Really, it comes down to getting the structure correct at the
beginning.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From "Dave Johnson" <davel...@gmail.com>
To "Legacy User Group" <LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com>
Date 15/12/2022 15:39:20
Subject [LegacyUG] Serious problem with Legacy 9.0.0.414
Somehow my Legacy is all screwed up. I can run a clean Compact
Family File and a Check/Repair with no problems. But I lost many
of my census images because of stupidity on my part. When I run a
Test All Media Files. I get a list of
26870 lost census images. So I begin getting new copies of the
census images and attach them to the correct individual. Lo and
behold! When I run a Media Linker or a Test All Media Files, the
corrected individuals still show up as missing their media links.
I can go into the individual sources and verify that the census
images are correct. They are correct. So somehow Legacy cannot
find them.
Any suggestions?
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