Forrest, This is how I understand the process... Legacy doesn’t actually make a copy of your pictures and save them in the multimedia backup. Legacy saves a list of links or pointers to where the pictures are stored on your computer. If you have legacy on two different computers then the pictures have to be in the exact same place on each of those computers so that when legacy wants to display a particular picture it looks at the pointer and knows where to look for the picture.
George Davis From: Forrest Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] restoring a back up My need is an explanation on restoring Legacy files from a backup I back up the Legacy files daily from the button on the tollbar to a second hard drive and the backup comprises 2 zipped files with one the data file and the other named as multimedia {in my case photographs only} When I restore the Legacy data from the back up to another {old} computer {that I keep for a safe backup storage} there are no photographs - all the data is perfect Would someone kindly explain the procedure to have the photographs included with the restore in simple steps for a person that is not a computer expert I have windows 7 home premium 64 bit and always update to the latest version of Legacy {de luxe} Thanks from forrest in Australia 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
