Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread weaversg
Gail, You sound like my Mom. When she was 90 she was entering her "Ramblings of an Old Lady" (her life story) into her computer. Her macular degeneration has finally driven her from the computer at 99, but she's still a joy to be with. If all the Windows 10 technical stuff gets confusing for

Re: [LegacyUG] 7 Generatopm Report - assistance, please

2019-09-06 Thread Cathy Pinner
Cappagh, If I'm understanding you, you want a descendant report (either Descendant Book Report or Descendant Narrative Book Report) for only some of your relations. Or would an Ancestor Book Report work better for what you want. It automatically is only for your direct ancestors but names

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread Cathy Pinner
Gail, Holly has given you excellent method of transferring the media to the new computer but missed one helpful setting. It does help to have Options-Customise 6.2 set to the top media folder on each computer and check on your Windows 7 computer whether in the Media Folder Master List all

Re: [LegacyUG] 7 Generatopm Report - assistance, please

2019-09-06 Thread Evelyn ..
Are you saying that there are 6 generations that were born after you? or that you are the 7th generation born after your beginning people? There are several "descendant" reports/charts. Descendant Chart, Descendant Report, Descendant Narrative Report (from the Reports Menu) or Descendants (Legacy

[LegacyUG] 7 Generatopm Report - assistance, please

2019-09-06 Thread Cynthia N. Russell
I am not sure what to call the report I would like to print, nor how to print it. Yes, I need some assistance for my 8 decade brain to work properly. I would like to take one branch of my family. I am the 7th generation. I would like to print only the direct descendants of each generation. How

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread Holly Nelson
I am not the expert that Cathy is, but here is what I did. I put the media files from the old computer (I had more than one file) on a usb stick and copied to the place I wanted them in legacy on the new one. Then I ran the "media relinker" on the new computer. It did a remarkable job, and then

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread Chris Hill
Hi Gail Well, this should be simple, but remember that running Legacy on 2 different PCs with no shared data files will cause issues. So the first questions are : 1. Are they on total separate data files, Legacy .fdb and Media files. OR have they been shared via Dropbox etc or

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread Pete Beatty
Gail, The simplest way is to copy W7 media files to an external drive. Then copy the files from the external drive to W10.1 On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 11:58 AM Gail Morrow wrote: > Thank you Cathy Pinner for your reply to my query of 4 Sep. > > I am not so good at describing issues so hope this

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Media File.

2019-09-06 Thread Gail Morrow
Thank you Cathy Pinner for your reply to my query of 4 Sep. I am not so good at describing issues so hope this makes it clearer. I have two laptops... one with windows 10 and one with windows 7 . Trying to get used to W10 but not there just yet. I mostly work on the windows 7 laptop for