There is no need for your pics to be in one folder or in a particular place though it's better if they're in subfolders of a particular folder.
This doesn't mean that you ignore setting a default folder in Legacy at Options 6.2 I have a heap of subfolders under one folder that I keep in my Dropbox. That's the parent folder I designate as my default folder. Legacy 8 expects many will have sub-folders and there are options so that they're not flattened if you use Gather My Media. On the other hand you can use it to put everything into one folder. I don't have my original scans/copies linked to Legacy. Legacy generally doesn't need anything of that size. I have them safely elsewhere and backed up on external drives. I don't use the Legacy multimedia backup unless I'm wanting to extract just some of the pics for a particular exported branch. My attached images are automatically backed up on Dropbox and synced to other computers attached to Dropbox. They're also backed up to external drives. Cathy At 12:16 AM 23/04/2014, you wrote: >I prefer for mine to be where they've always >been in my own folders and subfolders. Mine >are all categorized. I don't like them all >lumped into one folder. It's too hard to find >images if they're all in one place. > >William Boswell > >From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 8:08 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [LegacyUG] Location of images in v8 - not what I expected > >Okay, so I've finally upgraded to v8. >I see that my database has been copied to My Documents and converted. >However, none of my charts or pictures have been >moved out of the old Legacy folders. >Did you guys all move your images over to the My >Documents area? Pros/cons of doing so? > >I guess I expected the old Legacy folders to go >away... or at least that once I had successfully >upgraded, they were obsolete & could be >deleted. What's the strategy behind this sort >of split implementation? Some stuff in the new >location and some stuff in the old location? > >Thanks in advance! > >--Paula in Texas 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
