Lavern, I'm afraid that the discussion has got a bit away from your original question, which I will come back to. I'm afraid that it is a little too easy for us to jump steps when we report on tests that we have been doing, so, apologies.
Let us consider pictures which are missing, at the moment it doesn't matter from where in Legacy. The main question is: are they still on your PC? If not then to try and reattach is clearly a waste of time. Broadly speaking when they are gone from your PC, they are gone. So, use Windows Explorer to search your PC for the missing pictures, and make a note of the folder in which they are now. You can either move them back or leave them. If you leave them in the new location, and the picture is in the picture gallery, click on the picture icon in Family View, and missing pictures will be shown by a question mark instead of the picture - click on this and you will see a pop-up giving options as to how you can find it. Since you have already found it using Windows Explorer, click browse by yourself and go to that picture, select it and it should be relinked to all the persons to which it applies. As will other pictures in that folder, if applicable. The basic method is the same for Event pictures and Source pictures, although Leo drew attention to the fact that with Source pictures it only replaces the image attached to the individual's Source selected, it is this which latterly we were discussing, and which, in our view, is a bug. I hope that clarifies what we should have said, but do come back with any queries. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Lavern Hall Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files Hello... Just want to let you know that I am trying to follow this discussion, but as experts you are talking a bit over my head. :-) Goodnight for now... Lavern Hall .................................................................................. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: Leo, Correction – I knew it was late - I have just put the file back, and originally must have tested the same image, as I can confirm your result. I agree, it is a bug (Hope Brian’s not on the cruise!) Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: leo macdonald Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files Ron, That works great for photos attached to a person, birth, baptism, death, funeral, marriages and events, however, for some reason the photo path attached to sources and source detail will not set the new path unless the new path was changed through the Picture Centre. I have reported this to Legacy staff. Leo 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
