Ok, I am going slowly out of my mind. I have tried to follow everything everyone has said and I can not find a place to copy paste a picture of a document. I know it was really simple in 7. I did not want to store the pictures in the picture file on C, I didn’t before but do I have to now? I can not create a folder in the flash drive path Irwin-media, I cannot even add a new folder to the information on the drive. Right now I can’t find where everthing (picture wise) went when I created this line on the drive. I am assuming it went to media somehow, but now it won’t let me in. If I cannot add to this folder what am I suppose to do? My brain right now is mush and I can not figure this out.
Someone spell it out in 5th grade English please before I just bag the whole thing. Donna From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 1, 2014 9:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures You could put all the pictures in one folder or put them in any structure of folders and sub-folders you wish. Then run the Relinker. If the actual file names have not changed, the Relinker should be able to find them and fix the link to them. Once you have all media relinked, then you can backup the data and media. Delete the media folders if you don't need the pictures for anything else. Then unzip the backup media file to the C:\ and it will lay down the folders and files as they were at the time of the backup. Only the linked files will be in the backup. So, if you had 10,000 picture files that you copied from the Mac to the PC and only 5,000 of them were linked to the Reunions file, you should only have 5,000 on the PC when you finish with the Relinker, Backup, Delete, and restore. Ron Taylor On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:54 PM, Donna Newell <[email protected]> wrote: Ron, thanks for the informed answer. It makes a little more sense now. You are saying I can create a folder, I am assuming in Legacy, in which to place all of my media and Legacy will recognize and locate it at the appropriate time. Should I place all of the media I have previously linked in there, transferring from their location to the new one? Will I have to relink again after doing so? Thanks again for your response. Donna From: Ron Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] pictures Donna, You may have been linking to media files that were inside a zipped file which is a special kind of folder. That method was addressed recently by some users on this group and it helped to resolve several problems. The conclusion was to not do that. Always link to media that is not in a compressed folder. Other than that, you can place your media files just about anywhere you wish, link to them, and be happy. I like to put my media files in a root level folder because I collaborate with several other researchers. Some of those researchers still use Windows XP while others use Vista, Windows7, and Windows8. With a root level folder like C:\Collaborator1 it is easy for collaborator 1 to put whatever media they want in that folder and not be concerned with other collaborators messing with their collection. Collaborator2 likewise has their own collection folder and so forth. The collaborators can make any sub-folders they need under their root level folder. The Legacy backup of media only puts the media files into the backup for the database being backed up. The only precaution with this method is to not use the Gather Media routine as it will move all the media to some other location regardless of the various collaborators who collected it and kept it separately. The Gather routine probably does work for a single researcher that does not collaborate. Ron Taylor On Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:12 PM, Donna Newell <[email protected]> wrote: I am trying to save a picture of a census record to Legacy 8. In Legacy 7 my folder on the drive I used looked like this: 1 Legacy 12/29/2012 3:57 PM File folder 1 Irwin 2014-07-08 1,48.48 PM 7/8/2014 1:48 PM Compressed (zipped) Folder I could click on Legacy and it would open to: 1 Pictures 12/29/2012 3:55 PM File folder Which I then could click and it would open to smaller folders and pictures that I had stored for my data base. In Legacy 8 I am unable to do that. There is no Legacy folder, only the name folders and media folders. There is one labeled with a circle and an L in the middle with 11,448 KB in it, plus an Microsoft Assess Record-Locking Information icon with 0 KB in it. I would before save the picture to my computer, then copy it to the folder with Pictures and from there go to the Picture Center and find the picture in the Browse slot. Now I cannot find where to put the picture to load it into Legacy. I would like someone to help me out. Donna in Ardmore 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
