OK - I have accessed Tools >Work with External files ...............as you suggest. The folder in question has a X through it.................where can I find out more on how to solve it please? -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jane Taubman" <janetaubman@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:16 AM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help re Media please > On 24 November 2011 08:08, Laraine Hake <laraine10@btinternet.com> wrote: >> As a new user of FH, I am having a wonderful time adding photographs. I >> am >> copying each one to the file within FH > > Assuming you are using V4 with a project, you would be better letting > FH copy the files into your media folder for you when you add them. It > will copy them to the media folder for you. > > To sort out the broken ones you will need to use the Tools>Work With > External file links, which will show you the broken links and where > family historian is looking for them. You can then either copy the > files to the folder that FH is looking for them in or use the re-map > button to tell fh where the file is. > > -- > Jane. > > Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

On 24 November 2011 08:34, Laraine Hake <laraine10@btinternet.com> wrote: > OK - I have accessed Tools >Work with External files ...............as you > suggest.  The folder in question has a X through it.................where > can I find out more on how to solve it please? If the folder is in the media folder eg it shows as /media/foldername Then probably the simplest way is to use Windows to create the folder inside the media folder and copy the missing pictures into the folder, alternately make a better named folder in the media folder and copy the missing pictures in and then use the remap tool to select the new folder to replace the deleted one. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk