Brian, There is another option, but it does require more work - but not 3000 links!
Fortunately all you file names are different. Select one image from each folder and find it in your Legacy file (or the other way round if more convenient). Having chosen the image you will be offered various choices of finding it, select to do it yourself, go to the image and open it. This will attach every image in that folder. Repeat for every folder. --- Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "Brian L. Lightfoot" <[email protected]> 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 “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
