Wam,
To see where your media attached to Legacy is, see either View - Master
Lists - Media Folder List or go to Options - Customise 6.2 and click
View Current List of Media Folders.
These may show the full path or use codes that reference the folders at
6.1 [Family File Folder] or 6.2 [Default Media Folder]
Option 6.2 should reference your parent media folder. You set this yourself.
What is unusual with your folder setup is that you don't have your data
at a different level in your folder hierarchy. More normal is Data and
Media at the same level with Pictures, Documents etc under that or Data
as the parent folder with Media under it.
Data\Media\Legacy Pictures\
However that shouldn't be a problem.
With your folder setup you are right that 6.2 should reference
D:\Dropbox\legacy-myname\
The default locations are
...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Data\
and ...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\
but you don't have to use these. You just set 6.1 and 6.2 to the folder
you are using.
However you do have to have
...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\
This folder holds your Legacy Settings. You cannot change the name of
any element of that path.
RE the data. Note that your family file is <yourfamilyfilename>.fdb.
This is the file that holds your data. The <yourfamilyfilename>.tc is
just a minor associated file. The more features of Legacy you use, the
more associated files you'll have
Cathy
wam eskes wrote:
Hello Team,
I have a problem: "TO LINK THE MEDIA FOLDER/FILES"
My legacy-myname folder contains the following subfolders:
Legacy-myname
backup data
Data
Docs
Pictures
Sounds
Video
Works In Progress HOW
Selecting Options>Customize I search in 6. Locations for my family file:
6.1 Default location of family files (gbl)
D:\Dropbox\legacy-myname\Data
And Legacy starts up with my family file “myname.TC” and all looks fine.
Looking now at:
6.2 Default location of media files (ff)
D:\Dropbox\legacy-myname\Pictures
I now link the photographs but no other media files (Docs, Sound, etc.)
However, from reading the “Help” for 6.2 I had expected that just the
path "D:\Dropbox\legacy-myname" should suffice:
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*6.2 Default Location of Media Files*
Legacy keeps track of all the folder locations from which you have
loaded picture, sound, and video files. If the file cannot be found in
any of these locations, the /Find File/ window is displayed and offers
to help you find it or let you browse for it yourself.
As you link pictures, sounds, video, and other documents into your
family file, Legacy automatically records their location folders
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Am I missing something?
Wam
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