I did - however on the new computer any multimedia files which were in the My Documents folder had to be relinked. Those which were in the c:\Legacy subfolders didn't.
The path to the Documents folder is *different* on my Windows 7 computer than it was on my Windows 64 computer and it's different on my PC than on my laptop. In fact, Legacy has become so adept at finding missing pictures that when I was doing some testing by moving a picture out to a different location, it still found the picture for me when I went into the Picture Gallery! When you did a multimedia backup, did you get any notification of missing files? Had you renamed any of the files? Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Richard Van Wasshnova <[email protected]> wrote: > Sherry, > > After moving from one computer to another, didn't you first restore > your datafile AND all the multimedia files to the same directory path > as they were in on the original computer? That's the way I always do > it. So did your multimedia really NEED finding? > > I just now renamed a subdirectory C:\Legacy\Pictures\vanwasshnova > then clicked on someone's Picture Gallery. He had 4 "?" icons. When I > clicked on the first one it said "Legacy cannot find the file' do I > want Legacy to search for the file - yes. Guess what? Legacy can't > find the file!! The file goes bye-bye. And then there were 3. Tried > same on next fine. Same results. And then there were 2. The last 2 > cannot be found either by Legacy or by Legacy but they are still in > the gallery. I go to another person with 6 "?" icons which can't be > found but at least they didn't dis-appear. After I rename my > subdirectory back to original 8 out of 10 pictures are restored. > Fortunately I had a backup. > > That is a BUG. > > -- > Richard Van Wasshnova 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
