It seems to me, Ron, that if he changes the file-paths, under Options/Customize/Locations, everything will automatically connect. The only way to make things go awry is to stir the photo locations with a stick or to rename them. But, then again, if it's not that straightforward, your instructions should do it. ..... JL http://www.jgen.ws/jlog
On 7/9/2010 12:37 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Willard, > > Good morning! > > Now for the pics. What you will find is the Legacy will find them once one > is linked in each folder. The way which I use is to open a picture in > Legacy - I use the access to the Individual Galleries in Family Search. When > the folder path has been changed you will get a message saying that the > first pic. cannot be found; select search for yourself and go to where the > photo now is and select. All photos in that folder will now be indentified > by Legacy. > > Repeat for a picture in each of your folders. There are other ways of doing > this and other users prefer different techniques as, no doubt, other > comments will show. > > Ron Ferguson > > BTW. I would be grateful if you would change your email client to post in > Plain Text and not HTML, and so save me having to keep changing to comply > with the List's Etiquette rules (link below) > _____________________________________________________ > > *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > And the Fergusons of N.W. England > ____________________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: WILLARD WHEATON > To: [email protected] > Sent: 09 July 2010 03:40 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work > out of state. > > > Thanks Ron, that looks like the technique I was hoping for. I'll know a lot > more by Monday. > But, lets take a photo which has been attached to a certain individual, and > that picture may be down deep inside my data folder tree of folders, > sub-folders, in more sub-folders. > (Drive\Programs\Legacy\Data\Country\State\County\Family Name\Individual\1925 > xxxx photo.jpg} > If I open the photos on the individuals page in Legacy, I may see 1 to 50 or > more photos. If I click on one and say Edit, the window will currently > display the complete path to that > particular photo beginning with C:\Programs\etc. > Now, lets assume I changed that first box to "E:\Programs\Legacy\Data" and > ran the program again with the E drive hanging on the system, will all those > same photos now display > E:\Programs\Legacy\Data\Country\State\County\Family > Name\Individual\filename.jpg} for each photo? > In other words, if I tell Legacy where to look for the new "DATA" folder, > will it find the rest of the path to a file previously inserted in the > individual photos automatically? > If Yes, that would be wonderful. I was afraid I would have to delete and > reattach all the photos to each individual which would cause me big > headaches. > > Sorry for the overtime, but appreciate it. I'm not getting OT down here, so > I'm outa here! > Willard > > > > From: Ron Ferguson<[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 9:40:28 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work > out of state. > >  > Willard, > > I think Mike will be in bed now (which is where I should also be) but I'll > have a go. Not knowing exactly what you have in your Data Folder, makes it > difficult, However, I would copy the whole of the Data Folder to the > external drive. > > When looking for a family file (xxxx.fdb) to load into Legacy the program > will automatically look in C:\Legacy\Data, which is both (a) the default and > (b) where you have your stuff at the moment. > > At the top of the box where you select which family file you want is a box > containing the location, just use the down arrow and tree to go to your new > (copy) Data Folder on the external drive, and select the family file from > there. There is no immediate need to bother with the customise locations > function, although it may be an advantage later. Actually I think it changed > mine automatically, but that may be because I have the program on that > drive. In any event to make the external drive the default for the program > one only needs to change the first box to (say) E:\Legacy\Data. > > Selecting the media files in their new place is not such a hard job either - > when I've had a sleep! > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________ > > *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > And the Fergusons of N.W. England > Follow me on twitter > http://twitter.com/ronfergy > ____________________________________________________ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: WILLARD WHEATON > To: [email protected] > Sent: 09 July 2010 02:01 > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How best to transfer my 60 years of Genealogy work > out of state. > > > Thank you Ron, Mike, et al for your quick response. The answer I was looking > for was the Options, Customize, Locations portal. I wasn't aware of it. So I > will have to see what will be involved in changing the pointers. I will look > at it tomorrow. > Yes, I realize that many computers use D: and sometimes E: if it has more > than one CD/DVD drives. So a new HD may end up being anywhere between F: and > Z: It doesn't matter to me, as long as I can tell Legacy to go there. Until > I get acquainted with the customizing process, I can't say if it will be a > viable solution. > My concern is that in an attempt to "organize" my data, I set up a whole > series of folders, and sub-folders, inside of sub-folders. Organized by > country, state, county, family name, and individual names. In the > individual's folder I put all media and document files pretaining to them. > All these folders are within the DATA folder of Legacy. Each filename in any > folder begins with the year to which the information applies. I would cry > elephant tears if I had to change individual file pointers in the multimedia > file. > I am hoping that tomorrow I will find that I can do a replacement of all > data files having a "C:\" at the front end of the filename, to a "E:\" > > Stay tuned, I will let you know more. > > Thanks again > Willard > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
