Wesley You don't need to migrate anything. I think what you need to do is set your default location for media. Legacy8 has a default location, but it's easy to change to what you want.
Options > Customize > Locations > item 6.2 (default locations for media) Mary On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Paul Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > Wesley, > > > > I am trying to understand your situation but I can’t. Please bear with me > as I ask in a different way questions I’m sure you have already answered.. > I am absolutely positive that your media can stay exactly where they are, > and that there is no reason to change anything. I have my media (only a few > items) on a separate drive, and they are linked identically in 7.5 and 8.0. > > > > I don’t think what’s in 6.2 has anything to do with existing links. > > > > So, with respect to your existing media, are the links to the K drive not > there? I think you are saying that you can no longer see the images, is > that true? > > > > Paul Gray > > > > > > *From:* Wesley Johnston [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* December-03-13 11:20 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 > Media Folder > > > > Your configuration of folders is very similar to mine, and like yours I > have been using this setup for years - many years. And no prior Legacy > upgrade has caused any problems with this, since I could always customize > the locations for each type of folder. > > But Legacy 8 is clearly different in this regard, since this level of > granularity is no longer there in the customization options. And the Media > Relinker does not appear to have a granularity level below that of entire > hard drive. > > So I am stuck here, not knowing what my choices are in terms of their > long-term implications > > So I am in a situation that I need to know what to do to properly restore > the images that are no longer showing (except for one) on the first tree > that I converted as a guinea pig. (I have a great many more trees that all > reference the same pool of folders of Legacy-related media files. So I want > to make sure that I do this first one right, since making the wrong > decision up front could have a lot of consequences.) > > > > I am going to copy and paste again here the current state of my > understanding, based on Brian's note, so that he can clarify this. I really > need to know the full implications of the choices that are available to me, > since there are so many files involved. > > > > ---- repeat of questions for Brian ----- > > 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. > > ---- end of repeat of questions for Brian ----- > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* William Boswell <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:54 AM > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 > Media Folder > > > > 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]<[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???? 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