Legacy 8, like 7.5 is quite happy to use multiple folders for media but Legacy 8 now uses the Windows Standards for storing user data and programs instead of a special C:\Legacy folder for the program and sub folders of C:\Legacy for Data, and media.
The Legacy 8 program is installed in the Windows Program Files folders and for user data we create a set of folders under your Windows User name in the My Documents. Use the Media Relinker tool, Limit the search to your K: drive and Legacy 8 will find all your existing locations and use them for your existing media. The Options you mention are for those users who are content to let Legacy manage their media and store it all in a single location. You can set that to the top folder in your K: drive media tree, if there is one and Legacy will then open that default when you store new media, you can then navigate from there to the folder where you want to store, or have stored the new media you are adding. The ff and gbl notation on options indicates whether an option is specific to the current family file or is a global setting which applies to all family files. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 03/12/2013 7:02 AM, Wesley Johnston wrote: > 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 previously 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
