Bill You may not need to relink all the photos. A gedcom from Legacy includes the full path for the photos (drive:\folders\filename) and FTM may do as well. If you have the photos in the same location they could/should load. Alternatively Legacy has a setting for where to look for photos, and you could set that (options/customise/locations) to look at the photo location when they were in FTM. If you no longer have or know the file path that FTM used for the photos you can find that by looking at the gedcom you imported (eg with a text editor such as Notepad) and recreate it (look for the tag FILE).
If the photos are still where they were with FTM and the photo location did move into Legacy you might need to either control the gedcom import for that tag (FILE), or edit the gedcom before you import it. With 8000 photos it is worth getting the links in somehow!! However as the FILE tag has been std gedcom for quite a while I suspect the problem is not in this area. Cheers, Brett ----- Original Message ----- From: William H. Boswell To: Legacy Family Tree List Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:59 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] More Major Problems With Legacy--Role Reversal After practically giving up on my last GEDCOM import into Legacy, I did a new one that is just as messed up as the first. I just discovered that I have a person Marie G. Kelly who married Samuel E. Boswell. I'm finding two Marie Kelly's: one with a husband and one without. She is not listed twice in the index for some strange reason. With the husband, she's listed as the husband and her husband is listed as the wife. When I tried to attach her husband, it said I couldn't attach a wife to a female. I'm am so frustrated with this transition from FTM 2009 that I'm ready to say the hell with it. Last night I updated all of the cemetery photo information and relinked everything. All grave images are linked, but the other thousands will have to be relinked anyway because there's tons of duplicates. I wish someone would scrap GEDCOM and come out with a workable solution to converting between genealogy programs. It's getting so genealogy is not fun anymore and not worth all this work. It's more of a pain having to relink over 8,000 images and I'm not a big fan of Legacy's way of organizing images. It needs improvement. Ninety nine percent of my problem I blame on FTM 2009. 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
