Wesley, “Should” should be working! My 7.5 media files are stored on my D: drive in many different folders and they moved over to 8 when I converted. All of them were attached properly.
If you go to 6.2 and click on “View current list of media folders” there is an “Add” button that will let you type in any path you might want to add. Legacy will then find the media stored in that folder. Hope this helps. Bobby From: Wesley Johnston [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media Folder "Should" is not working. My converted tree does have one individual's images that somehow are pointed to the right place, but it is the only one out of more than 600 that is. So I went into option 6.2, which is how I would have pointed the search for images in the right direction in Legacy 7.5, and that is when I discovered the radical change from 7.5 to 8 in this regard. This is when everything came to a sudden halt, since as related in my original post I had no idea what the situation was and even less of an idea what I was supposed to do to set things right. And that uncertainty still is the state as related in my response to the first message from support, which still left me with very significant questions about what exactly I should do here in order to keep my files on my K drive in their separate folders AND to share that K drive with other data folders that have media files which I do not want Legacy looking at. We are talking thousands of well organized Legacy media files in specific Legacy-related folders sharing a drive with hundreds of thousands of media files in folders that have nothing to do with Legacy and which Legacy should not even be thinking about looking at. _____ From: Ed Carpenter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 9:36 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Migrating Pictures etc from 7.5 Folder to 8 Media Folder You should be able to keep your media files where they are. If you convert your file from 7.5 to 8, the existing media paths should remain intact and still be linked. There shouldn't be a need to re-link your media in this case. You can still continue to link new media from any folder you desire. I'm sorry if I have missed something in your original query. On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Wesley Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: 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. 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). 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