Hi Elizabeth, The very long path you give suggests some are linked from within a media backup. You may be able to sort it out by going to View - Master Lists - Media Folder List and changing any wrong folders to the ones that actually exist. You do this by highlighting the path that needs to be changed and then clicking the change button and navigating to the correct folder. Before doing this you might check with the Tools - Media Relinker that all media is currently linked and then start in the Master list by purging unused folders.
Another way is to set Options - Customise 6.2 to a new location for your media and using the Media Gatherer to move all media to that folder. Cathy Elizabeth Moseley wrote: > > Hello all, > I am using Legacy 8 and have not had any significant problems until I > decided to keep all my genealogy files and photos on OneDrive. I > started getting Error 3163 when backing up my media files (file path > too long). After rearranging my folders to eliminate most of my > subfolders and still getting this error, I gave up and just stopped > backing up the media files. (I had them in One Drive anyway so I > wasn’t going to loose them.) > > Recently I decided to stop using OneDrive and moved my Legacy file and > all genealogy photos to my computer. After moving the files, I > relinked all media. Everything was linked and going smoothly until I > tried a backup to my computer and included the media. My friend 3163 > showed up again. > > So, I went to Picture Center to check my 3000+ photos. In the Picture > Center Name List many of the already attached photos seem to have 2 > paths/targets. > For example: > C:\Users\Elizabeth\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\Branching Out v > 2014-media 2014-08-04 8.26.16PM\ > Users\Elizabeth\Desktop\Genealogy\1 Jennings Family\Cemetery\Saxon > Cemetery\Fred A Barge Jr. grave.jpg. > > If that’s the path, no wonder Legacy says its too long! Can anyone > tell me how to get just 1 path rather than the 2? > > Here’s another issue: the second path above is referencing a folder > that no longer exists. I eliminated it in an effort to reduce the > number of subfolders. > I believe the path should be C:\Users\Desktop\Genealogy 1\Jennings > Family\Cemetery/Fred A Barge Jr. grave.jpg. > Do I need to unlink everything and start over? > > Many Thanks Everyone! I greatly appreciate your suggestions. > > > Elizabeth Moseley > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
