Tony- We do need the unique names; no, we have to have them. Suppose I had the following: 1> BrownPhoto.jpg in C:\Photos (This might be "Kathy.") 2> BrownPhoto.jpg in C:\Camera (This might be "David.") 3> BrownPhoto.jpg in D:\Family (This might be "William.")
Now I have everyone's photo linked correctly and it works. Then I replace Kathy's photo. Legacy will do its job and look for "BrownPhoto.jpg." It will find it, but it won't be Kathy's photo. Had I been using unique names, Legacy could probably find Kathy's photo if it existed. Robert At 2010-05-02 06:14 PM, you wrote: >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. 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
