Thomas,
You are getting a mix of responses.
1. Gedcoms carry links to media.
If the media is on the computer Legacy and hasn't been renamed, then
Legacy should be able to find it by using Tools - Media Relinker. Once
linked you can use Tools - Gather My Media to copy it to one folder or
copy scattered media to your top/parent media folder and leave
sub-folders alone. You'll find most things in Legacy have heaps of options.
2. Don't worry about the Sample Media. There's not much and it's small.
I think you may be using Legacy 8.
If you have Legacy 9 and the Sample media is still in
...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\ folder you can just delete it as
Legacy 9's Sample media is in ...\Documents\Legacy Family
Tree\Data\SampleMedia\ folder.
3. Once your media is relinked you can keep it anywhere. The default is
...\Documents\Legacy Family Tree\Media\ but I keep mine in Dropbox so
the path is quite different. You tell Legacy where your top/parent media
folder is at Options - Customise 6.2.
4. It could help to know which program you were coming from.
If from FTM and you were syncing with Ancestry, then the media isn't
there unless you used the options to download it to your computer. If
from an early version of FTM the media is embedded in your data file.
I'm not sure when FTM started linking to media rather than embedding
it. Legacy Support can help if it was an earlier version. Email with
Attn: Michele.
Cathy
bobstree2 wrote:
First of all, Gedcom files DO NOT contain picture files. That is not a
Legacy constraint, it is the same for all gedcoms, regardless of the
source.
When Legacy imports a gedcom file, it will read in the links to the
locations of those files if the original file included links to them.
If the picture files were on another computer, then they must be
copied from the previous computer to the computer where you have
Legacy. (You could also copy them to a destination that Legacy can
access, like DropBox, usb drive, etc.)
If you have not renamed the picture files, but only moved them to
different folder locations , then Legacy has a relinking tool that can
locate the files.
Hope this helps. Welcome to the Legacy family. Good luck.
bobstree2 <mailto:[email protected]>
Sunday, 18 June 2017 1:50 AM
First of all, Gedcom files DO NOT contain picture files. That is not
a Legacy constraint, it is the same for all gedcoms, regardless of the
source.
When Legacy imports a gedcom file, it will read in the links to the
locations of those files if the original file included links to them.
If the picture files were on another computer, then they must be
copied from the previous computer to the computer where you have
Legacy. (You could also copy them to a destination that Legacy can
access, like DropBox, usb drive, etc.)
If you have not renamed the picture files, but only moved them to
different folder locations , then Legacy has a relinking tool that can
locate the files.
Hope this helps. Welcome to the Legacy family. Good luck.
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