Well, as to problems, yes and no. Guess I fall into the category age wise as to being unlikely to have the file as I'd like before the two children who want to inherit do so. Hopefully thats a few years away. In any case, some files are linked in Legacy where they should be and some not. They are linked to the right person but not necessarily the correct event. This happened when I converted my files from other genealogy software because that software upgraded and there were problems which I could not overcome. So I chose Legacy which now I like much better but have media file issues, see some did not transfer to Legacy at all further exasperating the problem. I can track all this down and fix but the job has proven to be massive. Especially when Legacy upgraded version 8 and the media copy / paste function in events stopped working. I'm about 2/3 rd complete now but it's been around six months to get this far along. Some of the files which did transfer have file names which are non descriptive, i.e. img. 0007. Thought as I go thru all this I might change the file names. Also for those that did not transfer I could change when uploading to Legacy. Sorry for the long email and likely my inept description of matters. Also, I understand the Legacy copy/paste issue mentioned above is fixed and will be later released. Best regards, Bill
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:15 AM, Ron Bernier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Have you had any problems with your media names up to this point? If not, > one less thing for you to complain about. > > Ron Bernier > Woonsocket, RI > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:52 AM, CE WOOD <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great news for those who have used Windows since the outset and have 40+GBs >> of media files that they are now supposed to spend their remaining decades >> of life to convert. >> >> Any good news for those of us who do not have that long to live and a few >> other things we need to do before we die? >> >> Is all our hard work, using long accepted file names, lost? >> >> >> CE >> >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Media File Names >> > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 07:09:13 +0100 >> > >> > Sherry, >> > >> > I am afraid that I cannot really agree with your comment about not >> > worrying about file names if you don't plan on using media files on >> > webpages. >> > >> > Whilst it is true that only webpages will give problems I recommend taking >> > this into consideration from the outset. I cannot count the number of >> > users with web problems who never intended to have a website. >> > >> > Mixed case is OK as long as the HTML uses exactly the same name. >> > >> > I recommend that for absolute safety one only uses alpha-numeric >> > characters plus hyphens, underscore and no spaces. >> > >> > Ron Ferguson >> >> >> 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 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
