Barbara,
In Legacy 8 you tell Legacy where you are keeping your media at Options
- Customise 6.2 - this is the top folder if you use sub-folders. Then
the Media Gatherer will gather any attached media scattered across your
computer and put it in that folder - it has an option to flatten the
sub-folders at the same time or preserve them.
In Legacy 7 in Options - Customise - Locations tab - you can also set
the default location for your Media. However, it isn't as helpful as
doing this in Legacy 8.
In Legacy 7 you can get files relinked if you've moved the folders but
not renamed the media - see the Test all Multimedia Paths button in
Options - Customise OR go to View - Master Lists - Media Folder List and
change the relevant path, however, this is much easier in Legacy 8 with
the Media Relinker.
Cathy
Turnham wrote:
Thanks for this explanation and also to CE for letting me know that
with 7.5 you don't have to store your media in the Legacy image
folder. Now I think of it my problem with disappearing images in the
program tree were probably because in tidying up folders I had moved
them to another place rather than that they were not in Legacy. I
will experiment with this but 8 does seem to make it a bit easier.
Barbara
On 3/19/2016 7:41 PM, Pat Hickin wrote:
So what you can do in Legacy 8, Barbara, is choose an image from your
(Desktop\ImageFolder\Image) and link it, say, to your grandmother and
Legacy will ask if you want it to copy the image to
(Legacy\ImageFolder) and link to it there and you can say yes
(obviously). At the same time Legacy will ask if that's what you
want to do with other images during your current Legacy session and
if you say yes it will automatically copy and link any other images
you add for the rest of the session.
Make sense??
Pat
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:38 PM, CE WOOD <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Linking is not a problem with Legacy 7.5. I still use Legacy 7.5,
and all my media are in various folders on my NAS (Network
Attached Storage) drive. There is no problem whatsoever having
Legacy link to any folders on that drive. I also have my Legacy
backups, all gedcoms, et alia stored in a folder on that drive.
Legacy itself must reside in a Legacy folder on my C:\\ drive,
but that's all.
CE
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To: [email protected]
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From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:40:04 -0400
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where on my computer should my Legacy
program .(exe etc.) be located?
Cathy
Thanks. That does seem something that I could benefit from as I
spend a lot of time on as currently I have my media in a folder
on my desktop and another one in Legacy which the tree program
links to. So are you saying it would get used to linking to the
folder on my desktop?
Barbara
On 3/19/2016 7:32 AM, Cathy Pinner wrote:
Barbara,
the media handling in Legacy 8 is far superior to Legacy 7.5
with the Media Relinker, Media Gatherer, code for the top
folder of media if desired that aids transferring from one
computer to another, reminder when you are linking something
that isn't in your media folders and the ability to copy to a
different folder and link from there, ...
Cathy
Barbara T wrote:
Hi Martha
No real reason not to upgrade to 8 but when I (admittedly
quickly)
looked at what it would do over 7.5 they seemed to be
things I wasn't
interested in like interface with family search.org
<http://search.org>, putting your tree
up on Ancestry were 2 I remember. I find for my purposes
that there
are way too many options already in 7.5 De Luxe. The only
bug I have
with this version is that when the system is searching
for a misplaced
me dia file it almost always stops part way through the
search but it
does usually finish in the end so not such a big deal. I
could be
convinced to upgrade to 8 but my thoughts at the moment
are "better
the devil you know".
Barbara
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