On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:43:16 -0600, "Paul Gray" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On computer 1, I set up a link to Grandma's picture and that link has a very >specific path to Grandma's picture on computer 1. That link is written as a >piece of data to the .fdb file, and the .fdb file is written(updated) to >computer 2 by Dropbox. When Legacy tries to open that link on computer 2 >(which is verbatim the link to the path on computer 1), unless the multimedia >is in exactly the same place on computer 2 the file won't be found. Correct. >Maybe Legacy (or Legacy in conjunction Windows/Dropbox) does that, but I'd be >surprised. To Legacy, the shared Dropbox folder is just another Windows folder. Legacy knows absolutely nothing about Dropbox. >Thinking about this, it really doesn't matter whether Dropbox is in play or >not. Let's say I manually copied the .fdb files and multimedia files to >computer 2. If I want the links to work on computer 2, I need the same file >structure (full path) , don't I? Correct. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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
