I have RM4 on my desktop PC. I use RM To Go when I am working on my laptop. But yes, the links show up as broken then. Which is frustrating. And I can't add media files when I am using TO GO on the laptop. I have worked around that by uploading any media files from my laptop to google docs. Then downloading them when I was at the desktop PC and adding them to RM4. I keep all of my photo files in a folder I named "RootsMagicPhotos".

I do wish RM4 could copy and embed the media files into the data and then into the backup.

Linda

Michael, the links are not broken, the photos, images, and files are just not copied to the flash drive. When you sync back to the desktop, the links to the phots, images and files will be restored because that is where the files are located.

If you copy the files over to a flash drive, you will have to keep copying any new files as you add them to the main program on the desktop. Between the facts entered, the corresponding fact notes, and sources, I have all the data from the source, except for the image of that source, or a photo of a particular person or place.

I use RM to Go as a temporary file setup to review and update textual data within the RM database while travelling, whether is is around the corner, or half-way around the globe. If I download any images or files, I save them to the flash drive and move them to a permanent place on my main computer after I return from my trip and sync the RM data back to the desktop computer.

Wow, it has been over a year since we had this discussion.   I recently discovered dropbox (dropbox.com).  I am going to experiment with it as the primary file location for my files, docs and photos.  If I understand how it works, I should be able to pull up the photos, etc on Roots Magic To go when running on other computers.  If this works, I think it would be great solution.

 

Any thoughts or concerns about this?