In message <139E4E68404245D4A53CD60B7259D779@Dell4600>, John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >To Dave Bradshaw [] >If you have picture files attached to people on the Media tab, they will >probably end up as picture files if you import it again. > >Any sound, video, or PDF files will go to the Media tab. > >The gedcom file just shows what files are attached to people, and the gedcom >file does not have a way to specify if a picture file should be picture or >media. > >I am working on a way to create a list of all files that are attached to >people in the gedcom file. [] This reminds me of something I have been thinking for some time - for BK, not GedCom: how difficult would it be to make the pathnames relative to where the main BK database is? At present, if they're moved independently, all the pathnames have to be changed within BK. If the concern is that some pictures (etc.) might _not_ be "below" the database (e. g. on a network drive), perhaps something could be done based on whether the path has a colon in it, or starts with a backslash - "pictures\mum.jpg" would be relative, but "N:\videos\grandma's silver.mpg" wouldn't. This would allow a whole BK database _including_ a lot of its media files to be moved as a whole (even within the same computer), without having to change pathnames. Just a thought. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf a little bit of me still feels that some southerners think we northerners are issued at birth with doomed kestrels. - Alison Graham, Radio Times, 3-9/11/2007.

To J. P. Gilliver Thanks for the suggestion. If it were easy, I would make an option for relative paths. However, at this point it is not easy to make the change because of several reasons. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> To: <bk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:53 PM Subject: [BK] Gedcom creation - now picture/media file location > In message <139E4E68404245D4A53CD60B7259D779@Dell4600>, John Steed > <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >>To Dave Bradshaw > [] >>If you have picture files attached to people on the Media tab, they will >>probably end up as picture files if you import it again. >> >>Any sound, video, or PDF files will go to the Media tab. >> >>The gedcom file just shows what files are attached to people, and the >>gedcom >>file does not have a way to specify if a picture file should be picture or >>media. >> >>I am working on a way to create a list of all files that are attached to >>people in the gedcom file. > [] > This reminds me of something I have been thinking for some time - for > BK, not GedCom: how difficult would it be to make the pathnames relative > to where the main BK database is? At present, if they're moved > independently, all the pathnames have to be changed within BK. > > If the concern is that some pictures (etc.) might _not_ be "below" the > database (e. g. on a network drive), perhaps something could be done > based on whether the path has a colon in it, or starts with a backslash > - "pictures\mum.jpg" would be relative, but "N:\videos\grandma's > silver.mpg" wouldn't. > > This would allow a whole BK database _including_ a lot of its media > files to be moved as a whole (even within the same computer), without > having to change pathnames. > > Just a thought. > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > a little bit of me still feels that some southerners think we northerners > are > issued at birth with doomed kestrels. - Alison Graham, Radio Times, > 3-9/11/2007. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >