On 12/08/2011 06:43, Paula Ryburn wrote: > These filing systems seem to describe how you organize your various > documents... > downloaded census records, scanned marriage licenses and death certificates, > photos of great-grandparents, etc. These are the sorts of documents I also > link > to my sources, events, individuals, etc. in Legacy. > > As I understand it, I'm supposed to have all of those files in the "pictures" > folder under "Legacy"... so my question is this: > > Do you build this structure of folders within the /Legacy/Pictures folder? Or > do you build this structure under My Documents/Genealogy (for example), and > copy > each item over to the Legacy/Pictures folder when you're ready to link it in? > Do you thereafter keep 2 copies? Or is the My Documents/Genealogy merely a > "holding" place or "Inbox" (and the file removed when it has been formally > added > into Legacy) ?
I have a vast collection of electronic files, not all of which are attached to Legacy and these are all (the Legacy attached ones and the rest) stored in sub-folders of a folder on my C:\drive. (NOT in My Documents.) It tends to be only the photographs which are attached to Legacy which have copies stored in sub-folders of the Legacy Pictures folder. As a rule, I scan photos at a high resolution and save them as TIFFs, but then make a JPEG copy which I store in Legacy Pictures and attach to a person or Event. (Sometimes I will extract an individual from a group photo for attaching in Legacy and I don't keep another copy of this separately. ) I'm not sure that this is the most sensible way to do things, but it works for me! -- Jenny M Benson 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
