Mike, I am not absolutely certain that I have fully grasped your problem, although I think I have got the basics so will reply in that context.
You are probably aware that Legacy only stores the path to the images and not the images themselves (excluding the backup). When you copied your data across to your laptop the paths save in Legacy would have been those for your PC, where I take it they were not stored on the D Drive – in fact Legacy recommends that they be stored on the C Drive, as it does for all Windows o/s, including Windows 7. So, as you have found out, Legacy needs to know where each image is stored. Provided that each image has a unique name then if you select an ‘unknown’ image in Legacy and then select it from its containing folder on Drive D then all images in that folder should be identified by Legacy at the same time. This must be done for one image from each folder. I am not clear why you say that you have to do this for each family, unless, of course, you have a separate image folder for each family. No do I understand you point about the images on the C Drive – if they are not images associated with Legacy then they do not matter. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Mike Bridgeford Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 6:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Transferring data and pictures to laptop from desktop Hi Guys, I have purchased Geoff’s excellent book on The official Unofficial guide to using Legacy family tree, and have noted that there is a step-by-step instruction for transferring legacy from desk top to lap top. However, I have always had some problems when transferring all the data from my desk computer to my lap top. I have followed the explanation and instructions to the letter as laid on page 152 through page 156. The family tree works well with absolutely no problem at all. The picture files do not work as well for me. Let me try to explain what the problem is, and then perhaps someone may be able to suggest a solution. I have a split disk on my laptop. ‘C’ for programs and ‘D’ for data. I have put the zipped multimedia file into D:\legacy\data and then unzipped them. [all my data is stored on a split disc to the D drive on my laptop.] If I then go to an individual’s information page, where I have recently put in a picture on my desk top program, the picture is shown as missing on the laptop, and I have to ask the program to look for it, which it does, and find it on the ‘D’ drive in the unzipped files. However, each family has to be done individually, and the end result is very unsatisfactory, as many pictures are not linked to their individuals screen data. If I go into options\customise\ locations\test all media paths – there are literally pages of ‘missing’ pictures!! I have changed the default location of pictures to pick up from D:\Legacy\data\.........multimedia, but this still does not rectify the problem. If I look at all the locations of my pictures, they are all over the place!!. Some are on the ‘C’ drive, and some are in ‘documents’ files. Is there any way I can force the program to only get all the pictures from the unzipped files in D:\Legacy\Data\....? By the way, I store all my reference documentation and pictures in jpg picture files. I really hope that someone will be able to assist. Regards, Mike Mike Bridgeford (M.B.A.,B.Sc. Mech. Eng.,F.S.A.I.Mech.Eng.,M.S.A.I.M.M.,Pr.Eng.) P.O. Box 325 Plettenberg Bay 6600 South Africa tel: +27445359434 fax: +27865151814 email: [email protected] alt1 email: [email protected] alt2 email: wlmailhtml:[email protected] mobile: +27832667634 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
