Hi, Bill. I am by no means an expert on this topic. What I shared in my post was what I remember of old and older threads on these topics, and mainly what I had taken to heart from those threads. To your specific points, the following come to mind now:
(1) Some people like to take it all with them stored on (say) a netbook when they go on (say) research expeditions, and having all their photos as large files in the Legacy\Pictures folder was not feasible. Also, if what you are mainly going to do with the images in/from Legacy is print, they will be small, rather than 8x10's anyway. I've found my JPG images of the census (about half of my images in Legacy right now) are high enough resolution to view and pick out details. Truth be told, I don't have very many images for which I have two copies. However, other folks use their images to make other products (books, gifts) and use various editing software<<<JPG is not good for that. (2) Most people have more images on their computer than what they have attached to people or events within Legacy. Most people have an "archival" strategy for all of their images/photos. I have only recently moved all my digital photographs onto an external hard drive----main intent: be able to grab-and-go last summer when we were under threat of wildfires here. (also freed up some hard drive space on the computer I was using then... an old, slow one) --Paula ________________________________ From:William (Bill) R. Linhart <[email protected]> To:[email protected] Sent: Thu, April 26, 2012 2:09:15 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] New: How to attach a picture in file >From this thread: "... make a JPG copy (lower resolution & smaller file size) for use in Legacy ..." (1) I am knew to Legacy and my plan is (or was) to keep the best available image in the Legacy folder. This might be a large .tiff image. Why would I want a smaller file size in my Legacy picture folder? I have had no problems with very large picture files in Legacy folder on my computer to date. Performance has not been a problem. However, I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by keeping large images in the Legacy folder if this will cause problems later. (2) The post may also suggest that you have an ARCHIVAL strategy that is outside of backing up the Legacy/Pictures folder for your quality images. What might that be? Do you keep HIGHEST QUALITY images in "My Pictures" and back up separately? I do not know the Legacy publishing cycle (web and book publishing) and the associated challenges and so I may be showing my ignorance here. Bill <snip> 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
