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From: Mike Bridgeford Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Transferring data and pictures to laptop from desktop Hi Ron, Thanks for the prompt response. I will try to be a bit more specific, although this is quite confusing for me! On my desktop computer, I store all my pictures and documents for the legacy program in the form of jpg files, in one folder under ‘documents’ called ‘Ancestory’. This folder has several sub-folders for each family group. I run Window 7 on my desk top. A death certificate for James Moir, for example, would have a path – C:\libraries\documents\ancestory\Moir\death certificate James Moir 16 Dec 1879. The picture under the death event for James Moir on the Legacy program , would then be linked back to this reference. As I suspected your sub-folders comprise one for each family, in which case you need to select one picture for each family, for Legacy to identify the contents of that folder. When I do a legacy backup on my desk top, there are two zipped files produced – one for the families etc, and one for the multi-media. Yes, Although I do not use the Multi-Media back-up Transferring the families zipped file to the laptop is simple, and works well. I went to file\restore family file, restore and save. The families are all there. Yup, that’s the easy bit! Following Geoff’s explanation in his book, I have then taken the multi-media zipped files, extracted them from the zipped files, and saved them to D:\legacy\data. OK It will not pick up the new images automatically. Correct If I find a missing image for James Moir, for example, I can ask Legacy to find the missing image,by double clicking on the ? image, and it will find it at the D:\legacy\data\. This is what you need to do for each image containing folder, although I prefer to use the ‘Find it yourself option’ Please note that I have not transferred the original image from the desk top under C:\libraries\documents\ancestory\Moir\death certificate James Moir 16 Dec 1879. It has found the image from the unzipped multi-media files! Yes, that’s clear I run Widows Vista on my laptop. Should not be a problem, I have Vista on my Laptop Geoff mentions nothing about transferring all the data files stored on the desktop computer under C:\libraries\documents\ancestory\ to the laptop as well! I haven’t got Geoff’s book, much as I might like it, as I will not pay $14 shipping for a $19 book The next step is to transfer all the files to my ipad!!! But, I won’t to make sure that the transfer to the laptop works properly first. Haven’t got an IPad, but I don’t think Legacy runs on it, but there is a program that reads Legacy files which will – Families? I trust this may have made my problem a little clearer – but I am still most confused with your comment that the legacy multi-media zipped files only contain pathways to the actual image files? Sorry, I thought I had been pretty explicit with that bit! Whilst the Legacy multi-media back-up does contain the images, Legacy does not store them in its database which contains only the paths to the images. This is why when installing on another machine it is easiest if the path to the multi-media images is exactly the same as that on the initial machine – and in part why Legacy recommends installation etc. on the C Drive. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Regards, mike From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 04 December 2011 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transferring data and pictures to laptop from desktop 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. 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