WARNING If you use other tools to rename the files outside of Legacy you will lose the linkage to the indivlduals. You should only rename the media files using Legacy's renaming tools.
-------- Original message --------From: Chris Swann via LegacyUserGroup <[email protected]> Date: 1/11/19 2:50 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Cc: Chris Swann <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renaming media files Hi Barry, Renaming the media files is the easy part lol, what I need to be able to do is link the new name back to Legacy so that the image is still linked to the correct individual(s) C On 11/01/2019 19:36, Barry via LegacyUserGroup wrote: <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Segoe UI"; panose-1:2 11 5 2 4 2 4 2 2 3;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> Hi Try some free shareware called ‘Advanced Renamer’ for batch renaming etc. From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Hill Sent: 11 January 2019 18:59 To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renaming media files Hi Interesting problem, and my first question is 'why did you do it that way?' All pre-1911 census records can be indexed by the Head of the family or by a location & page number (better if there are multiple families on the sheet). Individual 1911 census records can be indexed by the Head of the family and the summary sheets as before. Equally, BMD images must relate to one or more individuals, especially for parish records, which can be used to index them which I then extend with the date of the event. I have also structured the media folder into separate sub-folders by census year, births, marriages, deaths etc. which simplifies the file name system. However, somehow you need to build a list of the existing images and associate them against a list of new names, and then process them. How good is your VBA since that will be only way to do it and, depending on exactly how you you want to structure the new file names, can be built to do it automatically. Yes, it can be done, but you will need to work through the tables to identify what you need to find and update, and also make the change to the file as well. Alternatively you could write an external program to do it. It happens that I am a programmer and have worked on Access VBA, and I would need several attempts to write something to do it and test it out. Of course working on a backup copy until I was 100% happy that it was correct and that Legacy still liked it. Otherwise, it is the slow 'do it by hand' method. Change the file name, open the individual or event and manually re-identify the file - the media relinker is pretty well useless at that job if you let it try to locate the image, which no longer exists. Regards Chris ------ Original Message ------ From: "Chris Swann via LegacyUserGroup" <[email protected]> To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]> Cc: "Chris Swann" <[email protected]> Sent: 11/01/2019 18:11:29 Subject: [LegacyUG] Renaming media files All, I suspect i already know the answer but......... I have a LOAD of media files that have the name Unknown(xxx), where xxx is a number. I have tagged the files (in Windows Explorer) as to whether they are 1911 UK census images or UK BMD entries. What I would like to do is rename, at the very least, the Census files to a standard 1911 England Census(xxx) format so that I at least have all the Census files in order. Is there any way to bulk rename the files to replace the Unknown with 1911 England Census without having to do each one individually ? Alternatively, does anyone have a schema for the data tables that I could use to cook up my own Access query to try and achieve the desired outcome ? Thanks in advance, Chris Swann
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