Oh, bother! Ron, you are correct, and I offer apologies to Lavern if I've muddied the water now. The key to the problem in this case is to fix the link via the ? as Ron suggests, not to manually go and (re)attach a new photo in one location.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > James, > > I am unsure as to what you are saying here > " > Perhaps you are struggling with another extremely unfortunate feature > Legacy. Any source or event, every place that they are attached, > result in a separate copy. As such, say you've pasted the same source > 4 or 5 times (as this looks like has been done), then you decide that > you really need to update that for some reason, you must update each > one separately. (There is a find and replace feature, but I don't > think that will help in the case of missing photos). > " > > You are correct that search and replace will not find pictures, but it is > the first part which which I have a problem. Legacy does not attach multiple > copies of a picture to everything to which it is attached, in fact it stores > the path, and if you correct for one missing link for a particular picture > by clicking on the question mark indicating that it is missing, it will > renew the link for them all. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.ferguson.co.uk/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Cook > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files > > Event Picture: Census: <<Name Here>> > Means that for the named person, they have an associated "Census" > event, and that event had a picture linked to it that cannot be found > anymore. > So,for... > - Calogera SEMINATORE [5] > - Nunzia CARIOTA [42] > - Giuseppe VINCIGUERRA [50] > - Catena CARIOTA [43] > They all have a Census event (***not a source citation***) that can't > find a photo in this location with this name: > C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County - Cleveland\Cariota, > Calogero 1920 U.S. Census.jpg > > Perhaps you moved it, or renamed it? > > > This one is saying that the image can't be found on the Source Detail > for the Souce attached to the Alternate Name. > Picture (Mary Cariota): Alternate Name: Source Detail: Calogera SEMINATORE > [5] > C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County\Cleveland\Cariota, > Calogero - 1920 US Census.jpg > > > Perhaps you are struggling with another extremely unfortunate feature > Legacy. Any source or event, every place that they are attached, > result in a separate copy. As such, say you've pasted the same source > 4 or 5 times (as this looks like has been done), then you decide that > you really need to update that for some reason, you must update each > one separately. (There is a find and replace featrue, but I don't > think that will help in the case of missing photos). > > > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Lavern Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am still plugging away at entering census data, only this time my >> problems >> are with the 1920 photo. I captured the census photo from Amazon.com, >> just >> like Geoff showed us in the webinar and saved it on my C-drive as the head >> of the household, etc. I saved everything and was exiting Legacy when I >> got >> the "Missing Multimedia files..." screen. So, I went to Options > >> Customize> Locations. There I selected, "Make a list of all multimedia >> files" and a screen appeared with "One or more multimedia files are >> missing". I was asked if I would like to view the >> missing files. Ok. 1 1/2 pages later I had a full list of problems which I >> printed out. A >> final message stated that "all picture, sound, video, and document >> locations >> have been >> verified." I clicked OK. >> >> I went to HELP and read the "Checking Multimedia Locations" instructions. >> Being that I have done nothing with multimedia files before, I just >> followed >> the instructions:1) Test all Multimedia Paths, 2) selected the "Unlink >> unreferenced picture, sound..." option (thinking that Legacy would get rid >> of what I wasn't using), and 3) Make a LIst of All Multimedia Files. >> Result: >> problems not fixed. >> >> Here is a partial list of results: >> Missing Multimedia Files in: C:\Legacy\Data\Lavern Cariota Family.fdb >> Event Picture: Census: Calogera SEMINATORE [5] >> C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County - Cleveland\Cariota, >> Calogero 1920 U.S. Census.jpg >> Event Picture: Census: Nunzia CARIOTA [42] >> C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County - Cleveland\Cariota, >> Calogero 1920 U.S. Census.jpg >> Event Picture: Census: Giuseppe VINCIGUERRA [50] >> C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County - Cleveland\Cariota, >> Calogero 1920 U.S. Census.jpg >> Event Picture: Census: Catena CARIOTA [43] >> C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County - Cleveland\Cariota, >> Calogero 1920 U.S. Census.jpg >> Picture (Mary Cariota): Alternate Name: Source Detail: Calogera SEMINATORE >> [5] >> C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County\Cleveland\Cariota, >> Calogero >> - 1920 US Census.jpg >> I searched the archives and found suggestions for a similar problem. But >> simply put, I don't know what I'm doing! Here's my confustion. >> 1) On the individual's Assigned Sources list, I scrolled down to where the >> 1920 census line and clicked on it. The Master Source picture was there, >> but >> the Source Detail picture was not, so I pasted the photo there. (and >> thought >> that would solve the problem, but later when I ran another "missing list" >> the problem is still there! >> >> 2) I am not sure what needs to be written for the Captions. Is is the head >> of the houshold and 1920 census with the census date, or the individual >> person's name, 1920 census, and date? >> >> My apologies for the length of this query. Some direction would be greatly >> appreciated. >> >> Lavern Hall > > > -- > James Cook > GED Utils, Ancestry Utils > http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ > > > > 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 > > > -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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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