A few weeks ago I reported what I thought was a bug but, after a few e-mails, the developers have told me that Legacy is acting as designed and they won't be changing things. I thought it would be a good idea to mention the problem here, so everyone is aware. I know it happens in this particular situation and suspect it happens in other similar areas as well.
Imagine you have an individual with an event, the event has a source and the source detail has an image attached. Now, if you move the image into another directory, nothing happens until you use Legacy and highlight the source. At this point, Legacy realises that the file isn't where it was, so it goes off and looks in all its known directories, finds it for you and the file is magically relinked. You might never know this has happened. That's all well and good, except that Legacy isn't actually looking for that file; it is looking for a file of that name. If there is a second file with the same name anywhere in Legacy's known directories, then Legacy is just as likely to find the other one and relink that. Without telling you. Of course, if Legacy can't find any file with that name, it comes up with the familiar requester and, if you let Legacy search for you, it will ask if it finds the right one. I was hoping that the "Is this the right file?" would be inserted when legacy finds one in the scenario above, but apparently that isn't going to happen, so I guess the advice is to make sure that all your files have unique names. E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version: 6.14900 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
