David, I'm fine thanks - I've only been away in (very) Sunny Spain for a couple of weeks, and to me that seems like a very short time indeed, too short actually!
OK, I do not like the Picture Centre, so really do not know much about it's workings, but will take a look. Firstly, a probably useless basic question, the images are where you think they are aren't they; I guess so because you say you search for them? However, I would appreciate some clarification of > I find the file, click on, and it > takes me back to the 'Browse for the file...' box, to find the next > picture. When you find the image and click on it, you then need to click 'Open' to get it into Legacy; I am not certain from what you are saying that you are taking this step. One other thing, if I had not used Legacy for some time I would do a File Maintenance, running all the options, and have you updated to the latest version? Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: David S Brookes Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re-attaching files/pictures etc in Legacy Hi Ron, It's been a long time! Hope you are keeping well. That's exactly what I thought, but nothing seems to be linking up at all. All my file names are unique. Nothing seems to be 'sticking'. I must be making a very basic error. If I go to the 'Picture Centre' and find the folder where I keep all my FH pictures, by using the 'Browse' feature, then no photos are listed under picture file name? Now I know the photo's are there 'in reality'. So I can't seem link them this way either. What could I be doing? I do have a fairly long address for the photos i.e. C:\Users\David S Brookes\Documents\FamilyHistory\Linked Documents\Photographs\*photofilename*. Would the length of the 'address' make any difference? Best wishes David On 02/01/2012 16:15, Ron Ferguson wrote: > David, > > Assuming that all your images, no matter how many containing folders you > have, have unique file names then the method which you describe will find > all the Legacy images in the folder to which you have directed it. You > will > need to repeat this, once, for all folders. > > However if the file names are not unique then you will have to do it for > each image, otherwise you images will be wrongly linked. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: David S Brookes > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Re-attaching files/pictures etc in Legacy > > Hi, > > It's been a number of years since I did any family history - and several > computers ago!! I still have my legacy files and photos/ certificates > etc, but can't get them to link up. The footprints for all the linked > files are in the Legacy file, but all the photo's etc are coming up > black with question marks. All my 'media' files are kept in my > documents folder and not in the Legacy programme. Try as I might, I > can't seem to get Legacy to read the locations. > > e.g. If I click on to bring up the 'Individual's Information' box, on > the same line as the surname is the 'coloured picture frame'. If I > click on it. the 'find file' box comes up. Out of the four options, I > take 'Browse for the file yourself'. I find the file, click on, and it > takes me back to the 'Browse for the file...' box, to find the next > picture. I can go through this process until eventually it takes me to > the 'Picture Gallery' for that person. All the boxes are greyed out > with the titles/info. correctly displayed at the bottom. The 'find > file' box continues to come up, and I am asked to link the pictures > again, which I do. The photo's then appear. If I close the picture > gallery and open it again, all pictures are replaced by black boxes with > question marks. > > Any ideas? > > Best wishes > > David 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
