KiaOra from New Zealand. F.O an excellant program.Have tried 3 but like this one. Problem i cant solve ,have read help etc etc. Uploading photos from floppy to database just wont take.The process works but afterwards no photos show just a cannot view message Cheers Julie-Ann

D & J BROWN wrote: > KiaOra from New Zealand. > F.O an excellant program.Have tried 3 but like this one. > Problem i cant solve ,have read help etc etc. > Uploading photos from floppy to database just wont take.The process works but afterwards > no photos show just a cannot view message ================== D&J, Photos have to be placed in a folder by themselves and then you use the FO program to "link" them to the people in FO. They are not part of the FO "database" as such, and so do not backup when the FO database is backed up. Jim

It will work if the floppy is re-inserted each time you try to access the photos on it. In other words, the only thing you do when you add a photo somewhere in a Family Origins database, is to tell Family Origins where it is so it can look it up each time it wants to display it. If you copy your photos to a folder on your hard drive, THEN link them to your family data, they will show up, unless you move or delete them from the original location. In the last couple of editions, there is a global search and replace utility in the "Tools" menu. If you copy all of your photos on the diskettes to one folder, you can then use this global find and replace to change the path to your photos, so that they will all show up again. You have to tell it the old path, something like "A:\" and tell it to replace with something like "C:\My Documents\My Pictures\Family Pictures", but it depends on WHERE you put the photos. Good Luck, Alfred ============ ----- Original Message ----- From: "D & J BROWN" <dcjjs@xtra.co.nz> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:06 PM Subject: [FO] F.O 9.0 > KiaOra from New Zealand. > F.O an excellant program.Have tried 3 but like this one. > Problem i cant solve ,have read help etc etc. > Uploading photos from floppy to database just wont take.The process works but afterwards > no photos show just a cannot view message > Cheers Julie-Ann > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm > Browsable Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

Unlike some genealogy programs that store the photo's in the database, FO lets you store them where you want to. The catch is that FO needs to be able to access the photo's so that you can view them. If you have them on a floppy disk, you would need to keep the floppy in while FO is running, otherwise FO cannot access them. I would suggest that you create a directory on your hard drive and place copies of the photo's that you want FO to use in that directory. Regards, Brianne Kelly-Bly NJGenWeb - Morris County http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmorris Beware of the Genealogy Bug; It's bite can be addictive! -----Original Message----- From: D & J BROWN [mailto:dcjjs@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:07 PM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [FO] F.O 9.0 KiaOra from New Zealand. F.O an excellant program.Have tried 3 but like this one. Problem i cant solve ,have read help etc etc. Uploading photos from floppy to database just wont take.The process works but afterwards no photos show just a cannot view message Cheers Julie-Ann ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== The Genealogical Companion http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2399/tgc.htm Browsable Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/family-origins-users/ ============================== Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp