Anne- Thanks for the practical suggestion. I see that printing as a PDF file is on option for photo albums. Nice. However yesterday I worked through the broken links that I had created as follows:
- I downloaded a freeware PDF convertor and converted the JPEGs into one PDF for each of the 3 multi-page documents that I have discovered - I created 3 identical Master Sources (for the 3 different documents) and attached one document to each Master Source - I used the Source Detail to point to the page number in the document imbedded in the Master Source - I went back and open the Source Detail for each of the citations and deleted the photos that had the broken links. Tedious but I slogged through it. - I ran the "Test All Media Paths" report (Options>Customize>Locations) until I found and corrected all errors Two lessons in all of this for Legacy Users. First try not to change the name or location of your Legacy-linked photos. Think it through and try to get it right the first time. I have been using Legacy for several years now and, over the past few days, I used this event as an opportunity to rethink and restructure my photo and document file setup that links to Legacy. Secondly, correcting a broken photo link for a Master Source can be done by correcting the error on one iteration of the Master Source (I suppose that it is actually the one and only) and it will correct all citations using that Master Source. However if the broken link is on the Source Detail you must correct it on every iteration of that Source Detail. Thanks to all who responded with help and suggestions. Ray -----Original Message----- From: Anne Mamiya [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 8:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Changing Photo Link in Source Detail Ray, No need to buy additional software to convert to pdf. Legacy can do that for you. From the Picture Gallery where you have your 6 pictures, select the "Print Photo Album" button. This will allow you to create a photo album that can be saved in pdf format. Once you have it saved, you can attach it to the source. In the picture gallery, choose the "File" option to attach the pdf file to your source. I use the photo album quite a bit to put multi-page images into one document. It really is quite flexible. -Anne Mamiya -----Original Message----- From: Ray Mechler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Changing Photo Link in Source Detail Richard- Thanks for the response. You are correct that I do not have Access or Itools (I have dabbled in Access though I opted not to buy the software with my current home PC since I recognize that I am far from competent with it). I like the notion of creating one multipage PDF document with the images of all 6 pages of my document. That would certainly simplify the task ahead of me. However I do not currently have a robust tool to convert JPEGs to PDFs. The freeware that I downloaded does not have the option to combine multiple JPEGs into a single PDF. By the way, does anyone have a suggestion of a good PDF converter? Finally it seems that the best solution might be for me to do as you have done and to attach my photos or PDF to the Master Source and then reference the page in the Source Detail. I was hoping to use the Master Source to reference multiple documents that I might find in the online collection that I was mining. As it turns out I have only uncovered 2 relevant documents so I would only have to create 2 similar Master Sources. I suppose that is not a great loss and it will keep me from having to manually revise over 300 citations (x 6 JPEGs for each citation!). Thanks, again. Ray Mechler -----Original Message----- From: Richard Van Wasshnova [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Changing Photo Link in Source Detail Ray, I assume you don't have Access or ltools? If so I have no suggestion. I sometimes attach a multipage PDF document once to the Source and then give a page # in Source Detail with no further attachment. -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Ray Mechler <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently renamed some photos of a multipage document that I have linked to > a heavily used Source Detail (I use the Multimedia tab to link the photos). > Of course, this resulted in broken links for every citation using that > source, in this case, 15 pages worth on the ?Missing Multimedia Files? > report. > > > > Is there a way to restore the links to the newly named photos without having > to go to each citation? > > > > Ray > 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). 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