Hi Dave, You shouldn't need to be relinking files manually if by that you mean that you add them again. That would only work if you removed the old broken link and then made the new one - or do you mean you are using the dialogue from the broken link and the option to find the file yourself? That really is the long way to go about fixing media links.
Provided the media hasn't been renamed and is on the computer, Legacy can find it with the Media Relinker Tool. Where you have more than one copy of the same media, you need to tell Legacy which one to use. It may be slow but it is certain. If when you identify a correct file and use the option to link to this and others in the same folder, you don't need to do them one by one. It sounds as if you have moved the media from where it was for Legacy 7 to sub-folders of the new default Media Folder at Documents/Legacy Family Tree/Media. One possibility Since this is a user folder, if you log on to your computer with different logons, the media will only be there for the logon you were using when you copied it. I know some people have an Administrator logon and a User without Admin rights logon. If that's the case you need to keep your media and your Legacy data outside of the user files so that both logons can access it. The settings files: Documents/Legacy Family Tree/_AppData cannot be moved so to have the same settings you'd need to copy it. Otherwise make sure you only use Legacy when logged in from the same user name. Second possiblity Is it possible that you are opening different copies of your family file each day? You might check that you only have one copy of each family file you use and that any other copy has a distinctive name. If you only use one file, as I do for my own genealogy, you can set the option at Options > Customise 1.2 to always open the last used file. Otherwise set this to always open your main family file. I can't think of anything else that would make media files or their links disappear. Cathy At 12:48 AM 31/12/2013, you wrote: >I'm having fits with Version 8.0. Since it has been installed, my >media files keep disappearing. I have all my census records in >folders in the Legacy/Media folder. There were 16K missing >references yesterday. The cause of these missing links, is that the >original media files have disappeared. So I've required new copies >of the 2K media census files and relinked to their original >individuals. When I was finished obtaining new copies and manually >linking them, I would do a Legacy Relink to see if the number was >going down. And sure enough, I only had about 14K to go. > >I get up this morning with the intent to continue and I now have 17K >missing references. Whole folders are missing from my Media/Census folder. > >I have good virus protection and keep my machine clean. But this is >very frustrating. > >Any suggestions would be most helpful. > >Dave 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
