Kathy, There is a c:\Legacy\Docs folder for documents as well as c:\Legacy\Videos and c:\Legacy\Sounds for those files.
You can make sub-folders to further organize your pictures, documents, sounds and videos. This really does keep everything together nicely if you have to restore a backup or move files to a new computer. Files in the multimedia backup will be restored to the folders they were in when you created the backup. This can pose a problem when you're moving to a new or different computer and if you've kept those files in the Documents folder because the file path will be different on a new or different computer. You can relink the pictures but why go to all that work if you can just save them in the respective sub-folders in c:\Legacy? Only those files which are linked to in Legacy will be in the multimedia backup. Some people like to save their data files and linked files to their Document folder for easier backup, but you should have no problem setting the c:\Legacy folder to backup also. That's how I handled my Windows backup and the restore went just perfect after my recent crash. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to make sure I am understanding this properly before I progress > much further. > > 1 - It is best to store all of our multimedia (pictures/documents) in > the C:Legacy/Pictures folder > 2 - We can store all of these things somewhere else on our HD but if > we use Legacy on another computer, those items will need to be in an > identical folder/file (i.e., Documents/Family History/Brown family or > however we file our docs) > 3 - If we back up our file, including multimedia, it is stored as a > .zip file that we can unzip if necessary and all of our multimedia > items will be salvaged there > > Is this correct? Thanks, Kathy 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
