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Voila!! I am not certain exactly why it worked this time but I did the following: When I backed up my database on my desktop, I had been saving with time and date. I changed this. I then deleted legacy completely on my laptop. I also went into documents and deleted Legacy Family Tree. I then ran a program called Ccleaner on my registry to remove all remnants of Legacy. I re-installed Legacy. When I extracted the media file, this is where I find 1,462 images This PC Documents Legacy Family Tree Media Users georg Documents Legacy Family Tree Media. In addition to the images I also have a users folder. So in addition to the above string it continues as Users George Documents Legacy Family Tree Media and I find an additional 6,943 images. I don’t understand why I get the two locations for the images. I am still nervous to add additional images on my laptop when I am away this winter and then trying to re-install on my desktop when I return. I really appreciate all the help that has been offered. George From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Van Wasshnova Sent: December 20, 2016 1:16 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Media File Transfer 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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