Herman, Richard, et al., You can fix it, either from within Legacy as Dennis points out, or outside Legacy. If you have got hundreds of distinct paths to images in the Options>Customize>Locations window, outside Legacy will be faster. It is only the root of your directory tree that varies. As somebody said, it is a bad idea to use "Document and Settings" subfolders to store personal files, no matter what Microsoft wants, or, more accurately, BECAUSE Microsoft wants it that way. If your operating system malfunctions, the former will take all your work with it. If you avoid D&S, your work will survive. You need to be somewhat computer-savvy to do this, and you need Microsoft Access (or does anyone know if there is an open-source db that will minimally read access-compatible files?). NON-Legacy Method 1 1. Backup everything 2. Make a non-D&S directory, e.g. c:\aa on both laptop and desktop 3. Move MM or whatever the lowest non-Microsoft folder w images on both machines into aa. Don't change anything beneath MM (which is what you want to avoid, right?). 4. Open your legacy .fdb file in Access and open table "tblBP." There you will see a list (mine has 14) of paths to image-containing directories. 5. Using the "Replace" function (crtl-H) search and replace the srting "c:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents..." (or whatever) with what you recently set up, e.g. c:\aa\. Although you may have myriad folders, it is only the root chunk of the path that needs changing, and it should be the same in all listings, thus efficiently done by search and replace. 6. Close out of Access, open Legacy, and see if it worked. NON-Legacy Method 2 This assumes you are going to ignore our good advice to either avoid D&S entirely or subvert it, and persist in risking everything you've ever done by trusting Bill Gates. In that case, you need to create new identities in the D&S folders that are identical on the laptop and the desktop. You can have as many identities as you like. Control Panel>User Acccounts (assuming xp or 2000), or right-click the my computer icon on the desktop > manage>users>right click>new user. Synchronize user accounts on both machines so that the root path to your images will be the same. This solves your fundamental problem, but, depending on how you have the images set up in Legacy, i.e. Options>Customize>Locations, it might still be laborious to get Legacy to see the new locations. If so, see Method 1.
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