Since you just said subfolders - i have to ask if you have folders within those?
What I have found in the past is once I relink one image in each folder - those within that folder are also relinked. If you have folders within subfolders - you are going to have to relink one of those. Much better than 3,000 - and no need for panic. Jackie On 2/17/2013 4:07 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > > 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 “Picturesâ€, 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>>/* wrote: > > > From: Marilyn Clark <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Multimedia Locations > To: [email protected] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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 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
