Laraine, I am absolutely hopeless with files and things and my pictures were in a mess, so my good friend Anne Algar sorted me out. I now go through the following : Family Historian Projects (accessed from "Documents" - Windows 7) Duncalf FH Duncalf FH.fh_data Media In the "Media" folder I have sub folders for BTs CMB, PRs CMB, Poor Law, Courts, Census etc. and just add new sub folders as I need them. Under each sub folder I have separate folders for individual sources i.e. Baps, Mars, Burials or Removal Orders, Bastardy Examinations etc. I simply save images into the appropriate folder and link them to the person or family from there. It also makes it easy for me to find an individual picture if I want to do something else with it. I am getting on for 7000 images now that the Cheshire PRs have come online :-) I still have a few images with the X through them, linked before I was sorted out, but now that I understand how the thing works I can easily remedy this. Also, I have discovered that if you make any change to the name of the image that you are linking to, it will become unlinked, so it is a good idea to work out what you want to call the images before you start. I use "Bur Prestbury 1794 PR" for both the image name and the source citation, and if I have events for different people in the image I use (1) and (2) in the source citation, using the same image for both. I don't care if this is the wrong way to do it - it works for me. Hope this helps. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- > historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake > Sent: 24 November 2011 08:09 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] Help re Media please > > > > As a new user of FH, I am having a wonderful time adding photographs. I > am > copying each one to the file within FH > > However...........this morning, I have some photographs not showing. > There > is an Error message "Unable to load objects. Error on file open" I can > recognise that each of these photographs were stored within the same > folder > within FH - it is possible that I had not labelled it > correctly.........thinking back to yesterday, I could have deleted an > unlabelled "New Folder" not realising it was in use but that I had not > labelled it . > > My question is: How do I access and look at the structure of the media > files and folders other than when I am adding new media and it gives me > the > choice of where to save it. I have no doubt it is fairly > obvious............except to me right now! > > Many thanks > > Laraine Hake > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Ann We are basically doing both the same things but I don't have the separate files in the media folder. I have these listed as sub folders under the main folder of Family Information. Whatever way you do wouldn't make much difference. Or does it? One problem I am having at the moment is that when I use the same picture (a church for example) for two or more people instead of this appearing in the narrative report once it appears, if I used it for 3 people, it appears 3 times. That is one thing I am trying to resolve and ma looking at the hand book. I bought a printed version of this. Victor On 24/11/2011 11:08 AM, Anne Cole wrote: > Laraine, > > I am absolutely hopeless with files and things and my pictures were in a > mess, so my good friend Anne Algar sorted me out. > > I now go through the following : > Family Historian Projects (accessed from "Documents" - Windows 7) > Duncalf FH > Duncalf FH.fh_data > Media > > In the "Media" folder I have sub folders for BTs CMB, PRs CMB, Poor Law, > Courts, Census etc. and just add new sub folders as I need them. Under each > sub folder I have separate folders for individual sources i.e. Baps, Mars, > Burials or Removal Orders, Bastardy Examinations etc. I simply save images > into the appropriate folder and link them to the person or family from > there. It also makes it easy for me to find an individual picture if I want > to do something else with it. I am getting on for 7000 images now that the > Cheshire PRs have come online :-) > > I still have a few images with the X through them, linked before I was > sorted out, but now that I understand how the thing works I can easily > remedy this. Also, I have discovered that if you make any change to the name > of the image that you are linking to, it will become unlinked, so it is a > good idea to work out what you want to call the images before you start. I > use "Bur Prestbury 1794 PR" for both the image name and the source citation, > and if I have events for different people in the image I use (1) and (2) in > the source citation, using the same image for both. I don't care if this is > the wrong way to do it - it works for me. > > Hope this helps. > > Anne > > > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- >> historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake >> Sent: 24 November 2011 08:09 >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help re Media please >> >> >> >> As a new user of FH, I am having a wonderful time adding photographs. I >> am >> copying each one to the file within FH >> >> However...........this morning, I have some photographs not showing. >> There >> is an Error message "Unable to load objects. Error on file open" I can >> recognise that each of these photographs were stored within the same >> folder >> within FH - it is possible that I had not labelled it >> correctly.........thinking back to yesterday, I could have deleted an >> unlabelled "New Folder" not realising it was in use but that I had not >> labelled it . >> >> My question is: How do I access and look at the structure of the media >> files and folders other than when I am adding new media and it gives me >> the >> choice of where to save it. I have no doubt it is fairly >> obvious............except to me right now! >> >> Many thanks >> >> Laraine Hake >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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