Cathy, The media relinker seems like a recipe for disaster. If it should find a file with the right name in some off the wall folder it probably is not the sane file and I wouldn't want my laptop Legacy to mismatch the desktop (disaster).
If anyone is creating incomplete media backups due to exceeding the 260 character filepath/name then it is a serious problem. If they only have Legacy on one computer I don't know they could check for the problem but they should. Since George does have a 2nd computer with Legacy it is important to all of us to discover if problem is from exceeding 260 char. George, What if you create a media backup with shorter filename. My default is: vanwasshnova-media 2016-12-06 9.28.37 AM.zip but could be shortened to vw-media Dec-06.zip at least to try to fit more media files if not all. Richard On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: > George, > > First find out where you unzipped your media backup or copied your media > folders to. > Then at Options - Customise 6.2 enter your top media folder (assuming you > have media in a number of sub-folders under one folder) > That may be enough to find all your media re-linked > > If not, go to Tools - Media Relinker. It will search your computer for all > media files and then present the ones it finds with the same names as ones > linked to Legacy so that you can confirm whether or not it has found the > right file. If you use the button that says something like also relink > others in this folder, the task is quicker. > > Cathy > > George wrote: > > > Richard: > > I am still having a problem. > > When I followed your instructions to test all media folders, it tells > me I am missing 8,000 files. > > George > > *F rom:*LegacyUserGroup > [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 > > 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. > > 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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