Thanks Jane. I think I am letting FH copy the files into a media folder, I am just pressing the option that lets me choose which folder..... I will give the Tools>Work With External file links a try. Thank you Laraine -------------------------------------------------- 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 >