Hi I have spent the last several months organizing my media. Making more of a directory structure. Census jpgs in a "Census" folder. Tombstones in a "Tombstone" folder. Etc. It happens that I could end up with the same named jpg in different folders. Unfortunately I recently found out that a program I love to use to generate reports, no longer supports same name jpgs in different folders. They will just grab one for all assuming they are they same. (A "feature" that others really expect I am told. In fact they changed the behavior for me and got a zillion complaints from other users expecting same named jpgs to be merged so they had to back out the change they did for me.) Anyway ... I am now stuck with renaming all my files to something unique. I just want to add a prefix to them all. I can easily do a batch rename in Windows. "*.jpg" to "SSDI - *.jpg" for instance. I was wondering if there was an "easier" way to do this in Legacy without having to go to each reference of a picture in Legacy and change its name individually. In other words some "batch" command or some way to edit the fdb or ...??? I am not looking forward to more months of swapping names ... :(
Thanks! Tom PS By the way, I have thought of editing the ged file, but I am afraid I will lose info in the translation back and forth from Legacy to GED back to Legacy. I have no way of verifying everything comes through as it should. 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
