All the media/picture galleries work in the same way , there is no specific Repository media. That applies to galleries for Individuals , Events , Sources , Repositories or Locations. When you attach media you can chose to have Legacy handle the file by adding it as a Picture. But there are restrictions , a 'Picture' can only be a graphic image file and even then , not a .gif and I think there restrictions on some forms of .tif images , and always a reccomendation that the file is not very large. The size matters because Legacy opens the file and reads it into temporary storage in order to create a thumbnail for the icon which it puts in the media frame. It does this dynamically each time you enter the media gallery and many large images create an enormous processing overhead. For other files , .txt , .doc , .pdf , .url , .mpg , .wav , .mp3 and any others you can think of, Legacy will not handle , but you can attach them as Sound , Video or Document files as Legacy simply passes the control to Windows and , in turn , Windows passes control to the default application which you have set for the particular file extension. The only real difference among Sound , Video and Document is that a different static icon is assigned to the media gallery frame , symbolising a microphone , film reel or document page but essentially Legacy doesn't care. Before , I think it was version 6 , there was no Document category and I used to attach PDF files as Sounds files, it still invoke Adobe Acrobat reader to display the file. You can also attach those large .bmp , .jpg , .tif , .gif files as a Document and have your default image display application display them rather than Legacy. With version 8 of Legacy there is now an option to add a website address which means I no longer have to create .url files in order to have web addresses in my media galleries. I make extensive use of the ToDo list system and the associated repositories to organise my research files as it allows me to keep all the files in a single folder but have them accessible from the individuals in my Legacy database in just a couple of clicks. It also works for general information files , like keeping a reference table of the dates on which a census was taken in different decades. Making use of ToDo list categories , such as Information , or creating your own such as Research notes allows you to Apply the Filter option and get appropriate lists of the items. I think it would be worth your while persevering with the ToDo list and repository use because it is very flexible giving you a lot of options for organising your external files while keeping track of them using Legacy.
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