Richard,
To solve the path issue, DO NOT change the name of the Legacy Family
Tree folder.
NOTE: The folder for your Legacy settings is hardwired to
...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\
Change any of that and it will simply be recreated with Legacy Defaults
the next time you open Legacy - and if you have the Deluxe version,
you'll be opening the Standard version as your Licence file is kept in
that folder as well.
What you can do is move your media elsewhere so that it doesn't have
that long initial path.
Mine is long enough: D:\Cloud\Dropbox\Legacy Media\
Cathy
Richard Van Wasshnova wrote:
George,
Are your media files in one to 3 big folders or do you have multi
branching trees with sub>sub> sub folders?
I do and the file path and names are quite long. When Legacy Backup
creates a zip file it greatly extends the path and sometimes it can
exceed the Windows max. file path of 260 characters.
Here is a path to some of my media:
C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\V\Docs\church
documents\
When Legacy creates a media backup zip file it adds roughly 100
characters to the file path:
C:\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\vanwasshnova-media
2016-12-06 9.28.37 AM.zip\Users\Richard\Documents\Legacy Family
Tree\Media\V\Docs\church documents\
Depending on the subfolders and filename lengths you can easily exceed
260 char max and your backup media zip files will not contain all of
your media and are then worth less (not totally worthless). You will
not see any errors reported. The longer file path plus name media will
simply not show up in the media backup. I considered changing the
Legacy Family Tree folder name to LFT8 as it appears doubled in the
zip file.
Could that be your problem?
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:49 AM, George <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Richard:____
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I am still having a problem.____
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When I followed your instructions to test all media folders, it
tells me I am missing 8,000 files.____
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George____
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*From:*LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Richard Van Wasshnova
*Sent:* December 15, 2016 1:15 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Media File Transfer____
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Hi George,____
On your laptop click: Options>Locations>under 6.2 Test all Media
Folders.____
Tic the 2nd box "make a list of missing media" and Proceed.____
Are there missing Media files? If not your only problem is the
duplicates.____
If there are missing files let us know.____
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Brian Kelly <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:____
Since you cannot restore your media files from within Legacy you
cannot be overwriting media. That is why you are not seeing the
warning about overwriting media. The difference in files on the
desktop and the laptop probably means you have media files on the
desktop which are not linked to anything in your file so they are
not included in the backup of your Legacy media and were not
restored to the laptop when you extracted the media from your
media backup file.
To restore from your media backup you need to use Windows
compressed file tools or another program which can extract files
from a .zip compressed file.
Brian Kelly____
On 14-Dec-16 2:07 PM, George wrote:____
I purchased a new laptop to take south with me this year. I have
been able
to transfer my data to it with no problem. The first time I
transferred my
media I followed the instructions available on Legacy's site.
Everything
seemed to go well. I decided to check the number of items in the media
folder on the laptop compared to those on my desktop. I have about
11,000
items on my desktop but only about 8,000 on the laptop.
Further when I transfer my data file it asks if I want to
overwrite the
existing file, and I say yes and everything seems to be OK with
that part.
However it does not ask me to overwrite the media files. Would
this not put
duplicates in the media file?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
George
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