Re: [LegacyUG] Naming Images and documents

2020-05-07 Thread Jane Linkswiler
Oh, should have mentioned, I make pics and single page docs .jpgs so that everything is easily visible without having to open another program. Jane in Phoenix -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of June Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 8:01 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject:

Re: [LegacyUG] Naming Images and documents

2020-05-07 Thread Jane Linkswiler
I know you will have a bunch of different ways to consider. Here's mine: I keep all my images and documents in, for instance, C:pictures/Legacy pictures in/Sadler [one of my 8 grandparents including my husband's]. I file them last name first, first name and initial, if there's a maiden name, it is

[LegacyUG] Naming Images and documents

2020-05-07 Thread June
If this question is not considered a specific Legacy question I apologise and am happy to receive message directly to my email. I keep all my images and documents relating to my family history in a file on my computer labelled 'Legacy'. When I then attach one of these images to a person or

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-naming image files

2020-05-07 Thread Cathy Pinner
Jenny, The only time I know it doesn't work and maintain the link when you rename in the Picture Centre is if your path for the image exceeds the 260 character limit (from drive letter to the end of the filename extension). There has been no recent change. I discovered this in testing a long

[LegacyUG] Rebuild Source Citations

2020-05-07 Thread Alan Thompson
Does anyone know if there is a way to turn off the "Rebuild Source Citations" routine so that it doesn't automatically run each time you import data from one Legacy family file into another. As I have over 800,000 source citations, it takes about 15 minutes to process all these, even if the file I

Re: [LegacyUG] Re-naming image files

2020-05-07 Thread Andrew Robbie
I just tried to duplicate this with my Legacy v9 (9.0.0.339) and the rename of a source media file worked fine. Andrew -Original Message- From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 4:14 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: [LegacyUG] Re-naming image

[LegacyUG] Re-naming image files

2020-05-07 Thread Jenny M Benson
From time to time I needed to change the filename of an image attached to Source Citations in my Family File and I have always done this by opening Picture Centre, locating the relevant file and clicking Rename. The links to the image from each Source have always been maintained when using