Well, looks like changing drive letters of multimedia locations when there are sub-folders involved DOES NOT work. For those of you that may have missed my exact topic of discussion, it all related to the fact that I have multiple sub-folders under the specified multimedia locations. But if I move that entire folder, such as “Pictures”, along with all of its subfolders to a different drive letter, then ALL links to anything in a sub-folder is lost. Nothing else is changed other than everything resides on a new drive letter.
Yes, I have changed the multimedia location to point to the new location but please be aware that you can only point to the main folder. Apparently once you change anything, Legacy is not smart enough to parse through any sub-folders. I’m now left with a monumental task of re-linking over 3,000 images. There has to be a better way. I’m about ready to go back to 3 x 5 index cards. J Brian in CA (At lease I was smart enough to save all my .usr files) From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 8:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Locations You can change the drive at Options>Customize>Locations>View Current List of Multimedia Locations Find the paths that need to be changed and click "Change" then navigate to the new drive/folder location. After that, Legacy will find the pictures in the new place as long as the file names have not changed. Ltools has an option to do this for all the paths at once. Ron Taylor --- On Sat, 2/16/13, Marilyn Clark <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marilyn Clark <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Locations To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 12:07 PM I haven't done this en masse, as you are contemplating, but it seems to work OK for me. The only thing I don't like about it is that my captions, dates, and notes attached to the photos disappears and I have to re-do them (if I take to time to look for each change). Am I doing something wrong? -- Marilyn _____ From: Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> <snip> So if I change my Pictures location from "D:\Legacy Files\Pictures" to something like "G:\Legacy Files\Pictures", will Legacy link all images just as before? There will be no other changes to filenames, sub-folder names. Only the drive letter will be changing. Am I good to go? Anyone? Anyone? Brian in CA 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
