Yes in windows explorer right click  on the name and select the rename option Beware if BK was linked to the old name it won't find it Jim On May 29, 2015 7:33 PM, Jude via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for that hint and will try to remember to do that. I wish I had > found you guys 20+ years because I have a lot of info and didn't always do > it the best way.  Can you change a file name on your computer rather than > through BK? > > Jude > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Charles Dobie via <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jude, > > > > I might suggest naming your files "Crandall-Willard-obituary.txt", > > etc. Then if you look at your files with Explorer or some such > > program, the file for each person will be grouped together > > alphabetically by surname. Otherwise they'll be listed alphabetically > > by first name which could be a pain when you have a large database. > > > > Charlie Dobie. > > > > > > At 04:57 PM 5/29/2015, you wrote: > > > > >Thanks all  for your input. I have been using names, but will think about > > >having there name and also adding the number. Looking through my text > > files > > >I like the names as I do not remember the numbers. When I have more than > > >one file on a person I will save as this: Willard Crandall Obituary or > > >Willard Crandall biography. > > > > > >Jude > > > >  Remember - Use the Archives at > > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > 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

In message <[email protected]>, Jim Dell via <[email protected]> writes: >Yes in windows explorer right click  on the name and select the rename >option Or just select it and press the F2 key. (If using before Windows 7, be more careful not to overtype the file extension - .txt, .jpg, or whatever.) The F2 method for rename works in lots of places in Windows; (I like it because I'm going to use the keyboard anyway to do the rename, but then I like keyboard shortcuts over the mouse method for lots of things - others MMV.) >Beware if BK was linked to the old name it won't find it Yes, when you go to "images", BK will cause an error sound (and IIRR give a popup or something saying it can't find a file). Not always obvious which one, if you have lots of images attached to the person. I'm not sure whether it does something similar for text files. Anyway, you just edit the filename BK had to whatever you've changed it to. >Jim >On May 29, 2015 7:33 PM, Jude via <[email protected]> wrote: [] > it the best way.  Can you change a file name on your computer rather than > through BK? I fear that's the _only_ way: I don't _think_ you _can_ change it from within BK. Though come to think of it, that would be a useful function to be added (maybe using the F2 key!). Another addition that would be useful in these circumstances is auto column adjustment: in a lot of Windows prog.s (including Explorer itself), if you double-click the cursor over the column header divider when it's a double-headed arrow (as would be the case when it's between "Picture file name" and "Ind/Fam"), the column to the left expands in width to accommodate the longest entry there. If BK implemented that one, it'd save scrolling left and right to see the filename. [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Film: The Mackintosh Man, starring Paul Newman. Contains flashing images." - quoted on TNQ 2014-12-12.