Marnie I don't believe it matters if your PDF file is located in the Docs or Data folder, either one should be acceptable.
For a PDF file to work in Legacy it must be linked using the "Files" option and not the "Picture" option. When attaching a file to legacy there are four options Picture, Sound, Video and Files. It is critical that documents (DOC) and PDF files are attached using the Files option. It really doesn't matter what folder they are stored in on your computer. I recently imported a gedcom from another program and all of my docs and pdfs were dumped in as Pictures. They showed up but they could not be opened by clicking on them. I would suggest you take one of your pdfs and unlink it and reattach it as a File. Don Sent from Alto - altomail.com From: [email protected]<[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing Multimedia Files - Finding and Keeping Hi Ron, Am trying to figure out what I have. The Legacy folders that I have include "Pictures" and "Docs" and "Data". I don't have "Files". Should I make one? I have been using the "Docs" folder for PDFs. Thanks for reminding me that PDFs may be pictures. I'll check to be sure that I don't have those mixed in the "Picture" folder. If I do, I'll do as you suggest and remove the Legacy link and relink it. I do have unique file names for my images and for my files. Thanks to the good folks on this list I've had a lot of help in learning about computers, file names and Legacy. No spaces and only alpha/numeric for me. I am puzzled that the Picture Center replaced perfectly good file names (of both PDF and JPG files) with the same file name "lf.jpg" for each and every file. Only 32 images/files are involved. They were all successfully linked a couple of weeks ago. I'm at a loss to remember what might have changed. I just started getting the message that I was missing files after a backup. Thanks for your suggestions. Marnie On 7/10/2013 6:42 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Marnie, > > May I suggest that you first get your files sorted out and then look for > missing image files - although if, as in the case which you illustrated they > have an incorrect extension...... > > 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
