Ward you are exactly correct. You hit the nail right on the head as the multimedia files have never been deleted, moved or altered. The issue has nothing to do with the multimedia files.
I stupidly clicked something while my kids were in my face. That is all my fault. The issue (as you have understood), is that the links are not in, or accessible from, the backups either. Not even backups from 2011. It is "as though" the reference to mm files is stored within Legacy itself and not contained within backups. However that is clearly not the case as I have used restore before when I've bought a new pc with a new operating system (in my case I went from Desktop XP to laptop win7) & it worked fine. So either the current version has a bug in this area or ..well I don't know what the or could be yet. My daughter is coming home from boarding school this weekend and bringing her netbook. We are going to install legacy directly from the website via download then try to restore one of my old backups on her copy of legacy where that "remove links" button has never been pressed. Although impossible, it's as though that delete links button is jammed on. -----Original Message----- From: Ward Walker [mailto:wnkwal...@rogers.com] Sent: Saturday, 28 July 2012 10:44 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] HELP Restoring backup This thread is confusing me. The postings have established that recovering the paths in the current/latest family file is not an option. However, the OP said that the MM files have not moved and that the issue is that restoring a backup of his family file (from before he removed the links) still does not seem to show the links. How is this possible? Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene Young" <n2...@cfl.rr.com> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] HELP Restoring backup On 7/27/2012 11:22 AM, Ian GARDENER wrote: > I made that mistake in the last 24 hours. I've tried restoring > (successfully) backups from a month ago and not one link to the multimedia > files is there. It's as though some switch has been turned off in the > program. I have hundreds of pictures so restoring each link one by one > only to risk it happening again, is not much of an option. This seems like > a serious bug. > This is not a bug. It was an error on your part. Ron Ferguson told you how to have Legacy recover the paths. I suggest you try that solution before you do anything else. It works. -- Gene Young Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
