Lavern, For once I will knowingly use html!! See below,
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Lavern Hall Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing multimedia files Ron, Thank you for thrashing this out. A few questions still remain: 1) The 1920 census picture is filed on my C-drive C:\Legacy\Pictures\USA\Ohio- Cuyahoga County\Cleveland so, it is not a problem to access and use that photo. The original was saved from Ancestry.com as the head of the household (Cariota, Calogero -1920- U.S. Census). That said, when I link that photo to a family member event, what do I use as the caption? 1920 U.S. Census, or do I repeat the way it was originally saved? Firstly if ‘Cariota, Calogero -1920- U.S. Census’ is a file name I suggest that you replace the comma with an underscore ‘_’. If by ”caption” you mean the box of that name below the image I just put ‘census’ in it and the date in the date box, but you can put in it what you wish – ie. whatever seems most clear or most appropriate to you. 2) When I opened the Calogero Cariota's individual picture gallery in family view, I found that there were no pictures, so I transferred 1920 census picture there and saved it. The "Show Picture Gallery for this Person" icon is now in color. However, a census thumbnail appears next to Calogero Cariota's name on family view. This isn't correct, is it? Since you have transferred a census image to that link then, yes, that is what you will get. Obviously I am no position to say if that is what you want! 3) Once this process is repeated for each family member listed on the 1920 census, will this correct the Missing multimedia files screen? As far as I can tell, yes it will. Just remember that correcting the multimedia files screen is not the must important aspect of this work – because it is there does not mean that it has to be used. I do add images to all my sources because it gives me easy access to the image should I need it, just ensure that the correct image is linked Thanks, Lavern On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: 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). 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