Agreed, too many folders gets cumbersome Why not one folder under Locations named /USAIllinoisCookChicago/ ??
I only have a few folders and everything gets put into the respective folder with the filename of surname_name with over 60,000 items there are only a few folders census (under census is one folder for each main census year 1850census, 1860census, 1870census, etc) documents Headstones (under headstones are folders by cemetery HighlandMemorialCemeteryAppletonWisconsin, StMarysCemeteryAppletonWisonsin, etc ) Histories Maps Military Newspapers Obituaries Photos (under photos are 4 folders - portraits, couples, families and other) prayercards Recordings Video But the best way is whichever way works best FOR YOU! Jay On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jan, > You may consider using the Legacy 8 default for Media > ...Jan\My Docs\Legacy Family Tree\Media > as your base folder. > It doesn't matter so long as you tell Legacy 8 at Options > Customise 6.2 > that this is your parent media folder. > > I'm a little bothered by the length of the paths you are suggesting. > Someone else may comment on that. I know I've had problems when helping a > friend save things to CD/DVD because of her extremely long paths. > > Do the documents really have to be separated into town folders? My friend > has developed lots of folders and most only have one or two files in them > and are unlikely to have any or many more. She's always finding it > difficult to find things though she made all the folders to make it easy. > > Re moving the folders - this is a basic windows task of making a new > folder and moving other folders into it. Anyone f amiliar with computers > will lives near you or visits could help with this or do it for you in a > few minutes. You don't do this within Legacy. > > So long as you don't change the picture and document names then Legacy 8 > will find them wherever you move them to. Use Tools > Media Relinker. If it > finds multiple copies of a picture or document, check carefully that you > are telling it to use the one in the right place. > > Get back to the list if you have particular problems. > > Cathy > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hello, Need help with Pictures and documents. I just upgraded to > Legacy 8. > > The pictures that I have assigned to Legacy are in the My Picture file > along with the rest of my > family,in each surname folder along with other pictures for that family. > C:\Documents & Settings\Jan\My Documents\My Pictures\Lyons Would like > to get them into their own surname folders. > > How do I transfer them into a folder called C:\ Genealogy Picture > \Surname\Lyons or > C:\Documents & Settings\Jan\Genealogy Picture\ Surname\Lyons. > > The Documents assigned to each person are in a folder > C:\Legacy\Pictures\Genealogy\USA\Illinois\Cook County\Chicago\ > > Would like to also change it to C:\Genealogy > Picture\Locations\USA\Illinois\Cook County\Chicago\ or > C:\Documents & Settings\Jan\Genealogy > Pictures\Locations\USA|Illinois\Cook County\Chicago. > Don;t have a large amount of documents assigned as yet. So would like > to get this organized before I go any further. > > Thank you for any and all solutions. > > Jan at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > 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
