Yes - edit file names *before* linking to them. Otherwise you have a mess in relinking them!
Don't worry about the file names if you don't plan on posting webpages with media files. Legacy has accommodated the mixed case file names. In the Web Page Creation options, on the Formatting tab, are options under Filesnames to Don't change case, Convert to lowercase letters or Convert to Uppercase >From the Help file in Legacy for Web Page Creaton: *File name Format* Some web page hosting servers have case-sensitive file name links within their web sites. You can choose to have all the link names converted to all lowercase or all uppercase if needed. So you can use any case you want when creating your file names. It's best practice to not include spaces as they'll be converted to %20, which looks crazy <g>. I use dashes rather than underscores between words since they're easier to type! John-Brown-Birthday.jpg would work just fine. Also, on the "Other" tab, there's an option to Ensure unique filenames Again from the Help file for Web Page Creation: *Ensure unique picture names* If you have linked in pictures from different locations that have the same picture filenames, you can have the duplicate names changed to ensure that they are different. (To ensure a unique filename, a number is added to the beginning of the name. For example, *sample - brownasa.jpg* might become *f1_1_sample - brownasa.jpg*.) Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:58 PM, William Hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've read here that media file names should have no caps and no spaces. > Are there any other rules / best practices one needs to know about? > 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
