Sherry,
I have been following this thread with interest since I had, long ago,
chosen to name my picture files using spaces (i.e. "My Son 1992 High
School Graduation.jpg"). Since I have over 700 pictures linked to my
Legacy database (individuals, events, marriages, locations, sources,
etc.) I dreaded the possibility of having to go back and rename and
re-link all those pictures to ensure Unix compatibility.
While looking at the web pages automatically created by Legacy I looked
into the "C:\Legacy\web\project name\pictures" directory (substitute
'project name' for your project name). This is the directory that is
created during the web page generation by Legacy and all the pictures
used for the web pages are copied and stored there. Lo and behold, I
found that the pictures names in that directory all conform to the Unix
practice of no spaces, and even where converted to lower case!! So, for
the picture name stated above, it was renamed automatically to
"my_son_1992_high_school_graduation.jpg". All of this took place
automatically - all I did was to tell Legacy to create the web pages.
Additionally, the HTML coding used for the pages reflects this new file
naming, so everything appears and links correctly.
This obviously surprised my given the fact that this entire thread
centers around the advisability of using no spaces in file names to
ensure Unix compatibility - yet Legacy appears to be changing the files
names (which, by the way, is not a bad thing since the corresponding
HTML code is also changed appropriately) automatically.
Did I just misunderstand the messages in this thread or is there really
no need to worry about how we name our multimedia files since Legacy
takes care of it for us??
Thanks,
Bob
LegacySupport wrote:
But you never know if the server is going to be unix or not, right???? So
why not be prepared for any eventuality?
Thanks for using Legacy.
Sherry
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Photo storage (Was: Sharing Multimedia Files....)
----- Original Message -----
From: "LegacySupport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Photo storage (Was: Sharing Multimedia Files....)
We have no idea what technology will bring us or who we might want to
share
our data with in the future. Better to follow standard protocols the
first
time around, eh?
Not using spaces in file names is a Unix protocol, not a "standard
protocol."
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