I agree with everything Cathy has said. However, there is one caution for those who use Legacy on two computers such as a desktop and a laptop.
Multimedia links are static. They refer to a ‘fixed’ path, including everything from the drive letter all the way down to the file extension. It’s quite possible (even likely) that your ‘My Documents’ on one computer has a different path than your second computer. One possible reason is that the user name (user profile) is different. If your user name is James on one computer, and Jimmy on another, the paths to “My Documents” are different. If you attach your media using computer 1, the link will reference James in the path. Legacy won’t be able to find that image on the second computer because the it would need ‘Jimmy’ in the path to get to My Documents. So, if one is going to use two computers it’s best to put your multimedia on a “separate “ drive, most likely a separate ‘logical’ drive (aka partition) that you can configure identically on both systems. Paul Gray From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: November-28-13 1:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Customised Directory Structure Hi David, My take on this. The program installs to the Program Files - and that's the best place for the program. A user never needs to go to the Program folder in Legacy 8. The User Settings files go to [My Documents]\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData This is hard wired in Legacy 8 and this folder cannot be moved elsewhere. If you move it, it will recreate with default settings. This is where you'll find all those .usr files that are created as you use different features. This is where the colorschemes are stored etc etc. Your Data and Media can be placed wherever you like. As John says, just let Legacy know where you've put them in Options 6.1 (and 6.2 for the Media though John doesn't use that, I do and find it really useful when running on more than one computer) The Default for the Data and Media are both in folders within the [My Documents]\Legacy Family Tree\ folder. So if you want everything together, the best place is [My Documents]\Legacy Family Tree\ as the _AppData folder has to be there. But leave the program in Program Files safe from alteration. As John says, your [My Documents] folder can be wherever you ask your computer to move it. The first thing I do when setting up a computer is to shift the Desktop, My Docs, My Pics, etc, Downloads off the C drive and onto the D drive. But there's no need to go to these lengths if you don't mind Programs and Data on the same drive. Cathy At 02:04 PM 28/11/2013, you wrote: Hello John, Thursday, November 28, 2013, 4:17:31 PM, you wrote: > David, > Yes and no. > One of the security and robustness features of L8 is that it can be > installed in your Program Files folder. To do that, all of the > internal files that Legacy manipulates had to be moved to a separate > folder that windows does not require the user to be operating in > Administrator mode to manipulate. The user files have been placed in > a Legacy structure in your My Documents folder. > You can install Legacy somewhere else but you will be giving up some > program security. I do not know how Support is going to respond to > problems when you are not installed as expected. Ok, understood, so I might wait around on this List to see the comments transpire for a bit before taking the plunge. > Many of the files in the My Documents structure are "hard-coded" into > that folder. However, windows does have a facility for moving your My > Documents elsewhere. I have done this on one PC to put them on a D > drive partition. Yes I'd thought of it in the past, but not worth considering perhaps just to suit Legacy and my "living in the past" thinking. > I have a D drive folder where I collect all of my Family Files. I > have about 50 in use at any time. I set my option 6.1 to the name of > that folder so when I want to open a file, it looks there first. Yep I see that too, and something I need to think about. I've never bothered that much about the Windows 7 structure, particularly the user files in My Documents etc, which made me stumble across: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-drive.htm So maybe that's an option too ? When I think on this, in reality, perhaps it won't matter that much as long as an adequate back-up exists, and to be safe in two remote places. In my own case I backup the data files to my Google Drive every time they change in real time, and when the computer turns off I do another backup to an external USB3 drive. It may be a huge backup to the cloud for the media files, but only once, and from then on it's incremental. > All of this is very easy with Legacy 8. Thanks John, I'll be on the look-out for future posts on this topic. 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