Done!! Actually, it just took a few minutes and only four files were missing -- and I've now added them!! Thanks a million, Cathy, for your speedy help!!
Pat On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pat, > > Well done on merging your files. > > To solve your picture problem. > > 1) Make a parent folder for the picture folders > in Dropbox and make that your Default Media Folder in Legacy. > So that you have ...Dropbox/All > pics/Patlpics/... and ...Dropbox/All pics/Matlpics/... > > 2) Run the Media Relinker (on the Tools Ribbon) > on the Drive which the Dropbox folder is on - > note the button to choose which drives to search. > You can't narrow it more than that - just go and > get a cuppa while it does the scan. > > You may have to identify a number of the photos > in the Media Relinker but nowhere near 2000 of them. > > Cathy > > At 10:38 AM 24/03/2014, you wrote: > >In the past I have had two family files > >(paternal side; maternal side).  Recently I > >merged the two files after much urging from Leg users on this list. > > > >All my pictures are stored in one of two folders > >which I'll call Patlpics and Matlpics.and both > >of which I keep in Dropbox>Photos > > > >Legacy cannot find them automatically.  In fact > >it doesn't even BEGIN to look in the right > >folder.  Why it doesn't go immediately to one > >of the two folders in my list of (2) media > >default folders I cannot for the life of me imagine. > > > >When we FINALLY get to the right folder it finds > >the right picture without a problem. > > > >I have a total of c2000 images. > > > >How can I get Legacy to recognize these with a minimum of work on my part? > > > >Thanks, > >Pat > > > > > >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 > > > > > 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 > > > 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
