The way I do it set up customized folders. A main folder for just photos of people and cemeteries. The second one is just for source images. The people photos folder has subfolders according to surnames; cemeteries by the name of the cemetery and surnames for those I have photos of graves.
For source images, I have subfolders by category: census, obituaries, letters, certificates (birth, marriage, death), etc. I also have a category for text items and PDF files. If you set this up first and get it organized, it will be easier to find your images. The only thing is you may have to relink everything or get Legacy to do it for you. I've been using the same setup for years when I was using other software and they were all pointed to these folders. Lumping everything together in one folder is a terrible idea because when you start getting into hundreds of images, it's a very slow process trying to find anything. I always select to leave my images where they are and not copy them. I haven't found a way to make this a permanent selection within Legacy 8 or I overlooked it. Bill Boswell From: Wesley Johnston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media Folder I am still not clear what to do here. I see that the Option 6.2 is for those people willing to let Legacy manage their media and store it all in a single location, which may be what I wind up being forced to do, even though it will cause a great deal of immediate term work and a lot more on-going management effort on my part because everything is lumped together in one enormous folder with no way other than file name and file type to distinguish people pix from source pix from video clips from location pix ... That is because the Media Relinker tool does not seem to have a granularity finer than entire disk drive level. My K drive is not exclusively for my Legacy files. So there are tens of thousands of other media files on the K drive that I do not want include in the search by the Media Relinker. But there seems to be no way to do that. Am I missing something about how to configure the Media Relinker, or is it going to look at my entire K drive? The notion that any media file on my computer or on a particular drive is fair game for Legacy makes Legacy a very nasty neighbor. It looks like I am either being forced to either (a) dedicate my entire K drive to Legacy by the Media Relinker looking only at the entire drive and not at a specific designated folder and all of its sub-folders or (b) dump all my files into a single Media folder, dealing with file name duplications in the short term and a massive hodge-podge of files on an on-going basis for as long as I use Legacy in the future. Are these really my only two choices? If those are really what I am being forced to do, then I will have to go with B, ugly as it is. Whatever you were thinking when you convinced yourselves that this extremely significant migration issue should be glossed over and not fully addressed in your announcements and testing and advance online support considerations was a self-delusion. It is one thing to create new features and ways of doing things. It is another when you do not fully disclose and support the upgrade from prior versions and leave so much work to your customers, work for which there is no guidance already in place for such an obvious issue. _____ From: Brian/Support <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:25 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media Folder 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 <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. 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