I am curious also why you are having folders by town. I would never be able to find anything.
I have a folder called Genealogy Media that is my main media folder for Legacy. I then have sub-folders for the different surnames I am working on. I have a miscellaneous families folder for families that I don't have a lot of stuff for nor intend on looking for a lot of stuff for. A couple of my bigger families I do add another layer of sub-folders to divide up censuses and other things. I don't do that for all families, just the big ones with a lot of stuff. On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:29 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
