It's not a requirement to keep your photos in the Legacy Picture folder. If you do, though, you have to remember to back up from that location. It's not what we usually think of as 'default' like My Documents.
It doesn't actually matter where you keep them. I keep all of mine, and different sizes and formats, in hundreds of MRIN sub-folders in My Dropbox which is synced to my other computer. The only thing that actually matters as far as Legacy goes is that Legacy knows where they are. When you go to link one, just browse to where you keep it and link it up. (Tiff's are fine; they don't have to be jpg's but they have to be of 'reasonable size'. 20MB is not reasonable in this case.) If you already have a lot of files linked to Legacy and want to move the folder(s) to somewhere else you have to tell Legacy that by changing your multimedia locations under Options/Customize/Locations/View Current List of Multimedia Locations. I believe the way that works is if you link up one file from the new location it will recognize the rest. I'm always glad more than one person often answers a question. :) JL Beeken JLog | http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/ On 6/15/2012 5:51 PM, William (Bill) R. Linhart wrote: > "... I keep my original pictures in my archives and resize a copy in a > good quality JPG and save that to the c:\Legacy\Pictures folder. ..." > SOURCE: Sherry, LUG, posted Thu, 12 May 2011 > > Geoff R. seemed to suggest in all his videos that we could put our > ARCHIVE copies in the c:\Legacy\Pictures folder. It appears that > Legacy tech support has been recommending something different for some > time. I found this out recently with my quest to get picture gallery > working for my large images. I had hoped my ARCHIVE copy and the > useful-for-Legacy copy would be the same image. It appears this will > not work with current Legacy software. I have some TIFF's in the 20 > MB range (300 dpi 8 x 10 inches) that contain handwriting from more > than 100 years ago. I opened trouble tickets with Legacy and the > response has been, more than once, "your images are too large". > > I need to rethink how I expected to use Legacy. > > My question is: What is your organization and/or process for keeping > your archived masters if they are not in c:\Legacy\Pictures folder? > > Do you have a c:\Legacy_Archive\Pictures folder that mirrors your > c:\Legacy\Pictures folder? The difference being large-TIFs in the > archive and small-JPGs for use by Legacy? > > I do back up everything in the cloud. This question is not about > backup but about what do you keep in your working system and how do > you organize it all. > > Thanks. Bill ... this LUG is great ... keep on posting ... I am > learning a lot. > > PS. Since I have not gotten far enough to consider web sites and > publishing, do those each require different folders as well with > another copy of the images modified in some special way? > > > > 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 > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2178 / Virus Database: 2433/5071 - Release Date: 06/15/12 > > > 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
