I store all my photos in one directory. I learned to give descriptive names and now with the ability to use long file names, it is easier. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "E.Rodier" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [FO] pictures in one folder? Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 06:44:08 -0600 One successful book printed with Family Origins 10, about 125 pages in the final edit from the earliest ancestor and just a few generations. 17 THU files so only 17 pictures used in a descendant book. Using XP Pro and plenty of RAM, the whole book report displays on the screen in seconds. Mailing lists often have recommendations to keep all names of related individuals in a single file and all linked pictures in a single folder. Then comes the problem of identification of pictures in a file of same-name relatives and sharing the pictures for a specific branch when a file is split. What is the best way to plan multiple Family Origins files with a different set of pictures for each one and keep them ready to move from one computer to another -- personal upgrade to XP or sharing with relatives? What method do you recommend to print source documents large enough to read -- Canadian 1901 census images are available online for free so there is one image for each household that can be found without an index. Most relatives lived in farming communities and small towns at that time and there are scanned images of 1871-1891 census as well. A system of organizing family pictures must be able to expand to "all available" pictures and scanned source documents. One individual has a "biography" file with ten scrapbooks divided by time periods and matching stories for each set of approx. 50 pictures. Many older pictures were scanned in 1996 and saved with long file names. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Wells" > 2. Use an artifical drive letter assignment for the folder name. This uses > the DOS SUBST command available through Windows ME. Not available in XP. > This assigns a drive letter just like Network and real Drives on the > computer. Regardless of where the pictures are stored, it can be defined > for each computer using the program. ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/ Anne (Percival) Kruszka _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com