On 2012/05/27 22:02, Laird wrote: > I would like to discourage you making this change: > Someday you will have to buy a new computer. It will NOT have a folder called > "My Documents" like you have with XP now. The new computer will have a > different operating system, in the near future it will be "Windows 8". At > that > time you will have to do this process all over again. That is one of the > reasons Legacy puts everything in C:\Legacy\.....................
Microsoft are hardly likely to move away from this ipso facto standard. It might become known as the 'Personal Folder' but the concept will persist. > You will have to locate/find at least one photo from each > folder\sub-folder\etc. No you won't! Provided that you copy files from the root (C:\LEGACY\PICTURES) to \MY DOCUMENTS\PICTURES and maintain the identical sub-folder structure below that, then all you need do *after* moving all your attachments to their new location, is start Legacy and go to the Locations tab in the Customis(z)e window, and change the entry for your picture files. You may also need to press the "View Current List of Multimedia Locations" button, and then change everything in there as well. Finally, you should press the "Test All Multimedia Paths..." button and make a list of all missing multimedia files. No need to unlink anything. Just Proceed and see what the list says. Then, it may just be a matter of fixing the reference to one file out of each sub-folder for all the files to be correctly relinked. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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
