It's not the image. I can view it just fine in Photoshop or Windows Explorer. The problem with FTM 2009/2010 was that it couldn't handle images without crashing not just this one image. Apparently, Legacy can't either. I'm seriously considering just keeping the images outside of Legacy including the source images which is going to be a problem. I don't think these genealogy programs can handle a large number of images.
I use external images anyway and have for several years. I've never embedded images because they are useless outside of the software. Legacy did not save any of the information I did this morning as far as photos so no it doesn't save on the fly. In other areas perhaps as I expected, but everything I did related to photos this morning (about 5 hours worth) is gone. I'm not even going to bother with restoring any backups from this morning or last night because they're probably corrupt too. I did run the check/repair things as well and they didn't do anything. It still crashed as soon as I opened it. -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Kathy Shiell-Stokes Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 1:08 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Crashed Three Times and Lost Everything I Just Inputted William: Have you tried opening that picture file in an imaging program such as Gimp or Irfanview? If Legacy craps out on that file and FTM did on the same file I would be tempted to think that the error may actually be in that picture file and not with Legacy at all....especially since Legacy does not incorporate picture files into itself the way FTM. does. Legacy merely stores pointers to files...not the files themselves. Your data should be fine....legacy saves data on the fly not just at exit. To make sure of that I would go into legacy and run a check/repair file twice. If you want to verify that the data has been saved, check for the last name entered in your index list....I'll bet it's there.Please come back to us with the results...There are a lot of talented people on this list...We'll help you get it sorted. Kathy At 12:15 PM 12/09/2009, you wrote: >Legacy may be going the way FTM is--gone. I was trying to relink an >image and it crashed deleting my original image file. When I try to >go back in and continue where I left off, it crashes again. > >I'm not bothering with this anymore. It's too much work and if I >can't get past the crashes I'm just wasting my time. > >Fed up with genealogy programs. > >Bill Boswell Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
