To anyone, On thing to consider avoiding is to locate Legacy linked photos and documents in a Windows standard folder. Microsoft may change it at a later date as they did from Windows XP to Windows Vista. Windows XP "My Documents" - "My Pictures" In Windows Vista and Windows 7 the above folder names have changed to "Documents" and "Pictures".
What will Microsoft change the folder names to with the next release of Windows???? I don't much like the recommended Legacy location within the Legacy program folder, but it will work when Microsoft makes a change as above. Unless they drop the C:, D: convention for drives, perhaps a name of your choosing. Using Windows Vista I had my photos in this folder path: Y:\Users\Laird\Documents\Family Tree\Multimedia\Photos. I needed to make a copy of my genealogy data for a cousin who only had a C: drive. So I changed all my Legacy photo links to C:\FamilyTree\Multimedia\Photos\....................... This is a big job if you have a large number of photo folders. I also had a small C: drive and a very large Y: drive on my PC so I didn't have room on my C: for all my photos etc. What I did was create a redirection junction point on my C: drive to point to the files on the Y: drive, sort of an alias. All the photos etc. look just like they are on the C: drive even though they are still on my Y: drive. This is something that is supported by Windows Vista and later operating systems. Another thing to consider is the character length of the folder path, there is an upper limit of about 255(XP) or 260 (Vista) characters. You can reach this limit before you realize it, my Y: drive length as written above is 55 characters even before you add sub-folders for surnames-locations etc. If I were starting from scratch I would use something like C:\FamilyTree\Multimedia\Photos\ Sooner or later you will need to purchase a new PC and then this problem may arise. Laird On 7/7/2011 12:01 PM, Syble Glasscock wrote: > There's really not a right or wrong way, it's what works best for you. When > I started genealogy, I never thought I'd have 8,000+ people in my files, many > documents and photos, or having a family website was not in my thoughts > either, but I do have this now and there are certainly many things to > consider when naming a folder or file. > > For Legacy, I have one folder inside My Documents - titled : > Legacy_pics_docs; inside this folder, I have all documents, photos etc. that > are attached to my Legacy program, with a folders for documents, tombstones > and photo for each surname, i.e. Brown_pictures, Brown_tombstones. (within > the Brown_tombstone folder for example, if I have a lot of tombstone photos > for a particular cemetery, I have a folder for that cemetery), then I have a > Brown_documents folder, if you'll name your docs what they are first, i.e. > wwi_draft_brown_john or land records_brown John_1852, then they will be > easier to find. > > One thing I was told with a website, is to try to keep the file names short, > I don't know if that's true or not, but this was from a professional. Also > I've been advised to have all files the same as far as - or _ and upper or > lower case. This has been a hard habit to form, but I'm woking on it. > > My main reason for setting up a "Legacy" file is that I know anything in that > file is a lower resolution and therefore ok for the web or to e-mail someone, > I keep the important originals in a higher resolution in: My > Documents>Genealogy_Brown_family> etc., by having Genealogy first all my > Genealogy family files will be listed together. My higher resolution photos > are in : My Pictures> I have very few documents outside the U.S., so > starting a file with the country would be out of the question for me. > Good Luck, > Syble 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
