I am not at all clear on the new file structure within Legacy 8 and what I need to do to migrate all my folders of Pictures, Videos, Sounds. And right now this is a show stopper. I have no idea what I am doing nor how to get things right in the conversion and migration.
I keep all my Legacy files on a different hard drive (K) than the default. There, under Legacy, I have folders for Geo, Pix, Sounds, Videos ... which were the Legacy 7.5 file structure. When I opened one of my existing FDB files in Legacy 8 (by navigating to the K drive using the Windows dialog box within Legacy), I was asked to convert the file and given three options, I chose "just convert my family file and open it" since I do not want the files to wind up in the My Documents folder. It was only when I went into Options / Customize / 6. Locations that I discovered that there are no longer specific folders for each media type. Instead option 6.2 only points to "media files (ff)" (and I have no idea what "(ff)" means nor the "(gbl)" in options 6.1 and 6.3. So what am I supposed to do? It looks like I am supposed to create a new folder named Media on my K drive under my Legacy folders and then move all my Pix, Videos, Sources, Geo files into this folder???? But that means lumping all my source pix and my people pix into the same massive collection of files, making this media folder an enormous mess and raising the possibility of duplicate file names coming from within the perviously separate Legacy 7.5 folders. I definitely do NOT want Legacy 8 pointing to the default media folder on the C drive. I want all my media files -- preferably kept in good order in separate folders as with prior versions of Legacy -- on my K drive. I have been through many Legacy versions, but this one is very definitely not trivial nor transparent. This appears to involve major restructuring of the underlying folders in a radically different way than prior versions handled media files. And I am staggered at the apparent implications of this -- both in the effort to migrate the files to a "media" folder and in the mess that a single media folder creates -- and also stunned at the complete absence of any explicit addressing of this issue on the Legacy web site's announcement of Legacy 8. 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
