Sheila,
It doesn't matter much how you move media.
It matters if you just move the special folders, like the Documents
folder and expect them to work as they did before. Windows needs to know
where to find them.
Legacy uses the Windows Documents folder for the person logged into the
computer to save your Legacy settings. You cannot just move or rename
any part of the folder path. If Legacy can't see it, it simply recreates
it with defaults in the your Documents folder.
RE Media
There are so many ways to relink media if you know where they are.
eg 1: you can go to View - Master Lists - Media Folders and change each
folder from the old folder to the new one.
eg 2: if when you look at the Media Folder list, the paths start
[Default Media Folder]\ this is code for the path set at Options -
Customise 6.2
This was introduced in Legacy 8. It won't be used if either you added
the media in an earlier version or you added it in 8 but you left the
media where it was and didn't set Options - Customise 6.2
The Media Relinker on the Tools Ribbon bar in Legacy 8 and 9 is the
easiest way to relink media, especially if you can limit it to the
relevant drive that isn't the C drive. Currently there is a bug when it
scans the C drive if you are using Windows 10. Windows 10 has a
windows.old folder which is crashing Legacy. The way around this is
here:
<http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-01061/11/Error-Messages-Problems/Media-relinker-Freezing-crashing.html>
The only thing that stops you being able to relink media is, as Brian
said, if you have changed filenames.
When using the media relinker you need to be patient if you have
multiple copies of the same file on your computer or use the same
filename for different images. You must check that it's not only the
right image but it's in the right folder before you click either the
button saying something like "this is it" OR the next button that says
"this is it and link to any other missing media in this folder".
Cathy
Sheila Burks <mailto:[email protected]>
Monday, 19 February 2018 5:42 AM
Nothing seems to be working as far as the media goes. My data is
fine,thank goodness but I had over 12,000 media items
attached.Pictures,census,military and all kinds of vital records. That
is why I needed to move them to an external hard drive as my C drive
is only 120 Gigs. But it seems like I didn't do it properly. I thought
I could just move them to the external hard drive and change where
Legacy looked for them but that hasn't worked. It seems like I have
all the right locations listed for it to look in but something is
still off. I hadn't done as Cathy suggested - choose Properties, then
the Location tab - but it was too late for that. I should have asked
before I moved things. Thanks all for the suggestions but does anybody
have any more ideas?
Sheila
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Sheila
Cathy Pinner <mailto:[email protected]>
Saturday, 17 February 2018 7:40 AM
You can move your entire Documents file to another drive so long as
you use the right method.
I only have one physical hard drive but it is partitioned into 2.
The Windows standard location for Document, Pictures, Downloads, etc
are in C:\Users\<yourusername\
But they can all be moved to another drive if you right click on them
and choose Properties, then the Location tab.
Mine are all on my D drive. D:\Documents D:\Downloads etc.
Windows has to know where these special folders are so you have to use
this method to move them (or I guess know how to edit the Registry).
Legacy, as you know, uses Documents\Legacy Family Tree\_AppData\ for
your settings. This cannot be changed. So if you want it on another
drive you have to move Documents properly. When they've been moved
properly they still have the special folder icons for these folders
and their content shows in File Explorer under the special entries for
these folders.
Cathy
Leonard J. McCown <mailto:[email protected]>
Saturday, 17 February 2018 7:00 AM
Sorry Brian, Personally, I do feel it is a subject
for this group as it still involves Legacy and
using the program. I thought it was a user group.
Leonard McCown
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From: LegacyUserGroup
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On Behalf Of Brian Kelly
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 4:22 PM
To: Legacy User Group
<[email protected]>; Sheila Burks
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Changing Drives
This is not really a subject for this group
because moving programs and
data to another Drive is a general windows
question not related to using
Legacy.
In order to answer your question you will need
specify which version of
Windows you are using. I can tell you that in
windows 10 you do it like
this:
Open Setting
Select System settings
Select Storage
Under more storage settings click "Change where
new content is saved"
There you can select which drive to use for new
Apps, New documents,
Music etc.
Click the topic and select the drive to be used.
I do not think that this will move any existing
files but will affect
where new data and programs are stored.
To move existing data you will have to use windows
to move the files.
If you are not using windows 10 then you will have
to use your windows
version to do this. Maybe searching Windows help
will give you an idea
of how to do what you want.
Brian Kelly
On 16-Feb-18 4:11 PM, Sheila Burks wrote:
Hi, help please, Can I move my whole program and
Data file as well as Media
Files to another drive? My C drive is small and
I have a large external
hard drive?? I am haveing trouble relinking the
media. These files are
already on the external hard drive.
Brian Kelly <mailto:[email protected]>
Saturday, 17 February 2018 6:22 AM
This is not really a subject for this group because moving programs
and data to another Drive is a general windows question not related to
using Legacy.
In order to answer your question you will need specify which version
of Windows you are using. I can tell you that in windows 10 you do it
like this:
Open Setting
Select System settings
Select Storage
Under more storage settings click "Change where new content is saved"
There you can select which drive to use for new Apps, New documents,
Music etc.
Click the topic and select the drive to be used.
I do not think that this will move any existing files but will affect
where new data and programs are stored.
To move existing data you will have to use windows to move the files.
If you are not using windows 10 then you will have to use your windows
version to do this. Maybe searching Windows help will give you an idea
of how to do what you want.
Brian Kelly
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