Thank you Mike and Victor for your advice and support, I am pleased to inform you I am now receiving my Project Files on both Laptops complete with Multimedia files. I switched on my main Laptop, clicked on the SkyDrive FH Gedcom Icon and there it was, as you say, initially it takes some time to download. I am very pleased with your support and say a thank you to you both for your time, effort and expertise. Kind Regards John Payne On 15 Apr 2014, at 09:31, Beryl & Mike Tate <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, good point Victor. > Remember all the image files must travel across the Internet at whatever speed your broadband connection supports. > Also the download speed is usually much higher than the upload speed. > If the download speed is say 8 Mbit/sec then the upload speed will be about 1 Mbit/sec. > So a 1 MByte image will take about 1 sec to download but about 8 secs to upload. > 10 such images could take about 10 + 80 = 90 secs to transfer from PC to PC via SkyDrive. > > Regards, Mike Tate > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Markham > Sent: 14 April 2014 22:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FHU] SkyDrive FH Project linking Media > > I have found that it takes time for details to appear on the other computer. It doesn't happen instantly. > > As an example I saved my FH details on my desktop on Sky Drive. But the saved details did not show on my lap top until much later. I > breathed a sign of relief when it finally did. > > Victor > > PS Mike thanks for your help in solving my problem. I am going through all the files marked with an X. I found that there were no > images on my computer (hence the X). The images must have disappeared when I transferred details from my old computer to new. > > On 14/04/2014 10:33 PM, Beryl & Mike Tate wrote: >> John, you definitely should be able to change all the files on both PC to "Available offline". >> But the PC must be connected online to SkyDrive at the time of the change. >> This is the normal and only way of working for SkyDrive/OneDrive in all other versions of Windows. >> There are some suggestions on Google that it may need to be repeated on each PC before it sticks. >> >> On Google there are many tutorials of how to do it using either File Explorer or the SkyDrive app. >> >> Has anyone else experienced this problem and can help John with a solution??? >> >> Regards, Mike Tate >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John >> Payne >> Sent: 14 April 2014 20:31 >> To: Family Historian >> Subject: Re: [FHU] SkyDrive FH Project linking Media >> >> >> On 13 Apr 2014, at 20:16, Beryl & Mike Tate <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> John, that is very odd! >>> I presume both Projects are in the Family Historian Projects folder within the SkyDrive folder on both PC. >> Yes >>> So on both PC the Tools > Work with External File Links lists all the >>> File Links correctly without any large X against any of >> them? >>> Please confirm. >>> In both cases the File Links list should start with Project Data > >>> Folder - Media >> Yes >>> Where & how are the media files not showing, and what is showing instead? >>> Are you looking on Multimedia tabs or in the Multimedia Window or the Multimedia Record Property Box? >> Both showing a blank box >>> Are the media files marked as "Available offline" or "Online-only" in File Explorer? >>> If "Online-only" then maybe FH cannot see them as they only exist in SkyDrive and not on disk. >>> See >>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/onedrive-online-availabl >>> e-offline >> Both computers were on online only, since receiving your mail I >> have changed the 2nd computer to Off Line, the multimedia has returned >> ok, I then checked my main computer, the Multimedia has disappeared, I then changed to Offline with no success, tried again on > Online Only with no success, all external file links are correct. >> It appears to me a problem with SkyDrive. >> >> Kind Regards, John Payne >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] > >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> John Payne >>> Sent: 13 April 2014 19:57 >>> To: Family Historian >>> Subject: [FHU] SkyDrive FH Project linking Media >>> >>> Two computers both Windows 8.1, I have uploaded my FH project, works >>> fine on my main computer, on my 2nd computer the download >> project appears exactly as on the master computer. The problem I have >> is that on the 2nd computer none of the media files are showing, the >> media files are in the download folder, when I make a check on the >> Work with External File Links all the files are showing to be linked correctly and when checking against the main computer with > Work with External File Links they are the same on both computers. >>> John >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message