Tony, thanks again for taking so much time to explain. I am printing out your emails to refer to when I start planning a finally directory structure. I haven'tyetcome up with a plan that seems better.
>________________________________ > From: Tony Rolfe <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:23 PM >Subject: Legacy Pictures/multimedia Storage: was Re: [LegacyUG] What is the >best way to do this? > > >On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:16:48 -0700 Marg Strong wrote > >> Tony, <snip> >> >> Since MRIN refers to marriages, do you handle the RIN of unmarried >> people the same way? > >Unmarried children's files are stored in their parents' folder until >they marry, then they get their own folder and their files get moved there. > >I create a MRIN folder whenever I get an image or other M/M file which >relates to the marriage or the unmarried children. Usually, the first >thing is a census image, sometimes a marriage certificate or whatever. >I don't have MRIN folders for marriages without any files. > >Anything which relates to the married couple or to one or both of them >incorporates the MRIN in the file name, so I might have "1891 Census >(M0123).jpg" and would reference that for a census event for each person >in the household. If husband and wife are in different places then the >main household gets "1891 Census (M0123)" but the other one gets "1891 >Census (M0123) - Mary Anne (I04986)". If the census image spreads over >two pages, the first one has "part 1" and the second "part 2" added to >the end. > >Any unmarried children at home come under the main census, but an >unmarried child living away from home would get "1891 Census - George >(I01234)", which would be stored in the parents' folder. Similarly >birth certificates or death certificates for unmarried children just >have their name and RIN included in the file name and are stored in the >parents' folder. > >Once an unmarried child marries and gets a file relating to that >marriage, they get their own folder and all their childhood files get >moved there. Once one file from this new folder becomes known to >Legacy, I run a test all multimedia paths to realign everything. > >Essentially, the file name reflects the marriage if the person is >married at the time of the image, but just has the RIN when they are >unmarried at that time. > >If someone remarries, the new marriage gets a folder for files relating >to the new marriage but the "unmarried" info stays in the first marriage >folder. > >If one of the couple dies and the other doesn't remarry then later >census images etc. go into the marriage folder with the MRIN in the >name, just as if they were both there. > >Sometimes I have to leave part of one of the names (in the folder name) >blank. Usually the wife's maiden name but sometimes the husband's first >name. Sometimes I just have an initial for a middle name. That's not a >problem in itself. However, when I find out that info I change the >folder name and have to fix that up in Legacy. Not a drama, just a >housekeeping chore. > >There are some other rare issues, but I just put the file into the most >appropriate folder and name it including the most relevant numbers. > >This does guarantee that all file names are unique. It isn't too >complicated. It does generate a lot of folders, but there is >essentially no limitation to how many Widows will let you have. >Performance isn't an issue, except something (probably Legacy) goes into >a disk thrash when I reference the first file in a new folder. > >It works for me, your mileage may differ. > >Cheers > >Tony > > > >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 > > > > > 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
