Thanks Paula, I've done that already. The problem is that in searching through trying to locate each missing file I have come across an apparent link to a fact that doesn't even exist. It's these links I need to remove, not the ones to files that have just moved or been renamed.
Kathy > On 28 Sep 2013, at 6:18 am, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kathy, It looks like your thread was hijacked without you receiving an > answer. > > Try Options > Customize > Locations tab > Test all media folders > UNCHECK make a list of all missing media files > Click "Proceed" > As each of your "missing" files pops up, I believe what you want to click is > "Remove Lost Picture" > THAT IS, I believe this removes the LINK to the lost picture/file. > > HOWEVER, the HELP doesn't explain what this button does. ?! Hopefully, that > will be fixed in v8--I mean, I hope v8 Help matches v8 software. I digress. > > You can always do this for one of the files (all 4-5 times it appears) and > run it again to see that the app is no longer looking for the missing > picture/file. > > --Paula in Texas > Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman > Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field > Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes > Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts > Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams > > From: Kathy Thompson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:44 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing Media > > Thing is, I don't want to necessarily find the missing media > If it was just that some files have had their location changed, that would be > easy enough for Legacy to find, and the ones that have had their file name > changed can be done manually quite easily. > > But there are the files that somehow appear to be attached to 5 different > places within the one person or family yet I can only find some of those > attachment points. > I want to be able to unlink any that I can not find the attachment point for. > > > On 25 September 2013 15:34, Leon Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > You may want to wait till Legacy 8 becomes available. It should be able to > find all your missing media. > Leon Chapman > > > On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Kathy Thompson wrote: > I have a number of missing media items that for a number of reasons I'd > prefer to simply unlink rather than search for them all manually. > > How can I unlink ONLY the missing media files? > > Thanks > > > 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 > > > -- > ___ > Leon Chapman > [email protected] > ----- > > > > 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 > > > > > 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). 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