Yes, what Wayne said, I had to go to supper when I was only half done with this reply. I doubt that there is anything new here, but I hate to delete my work <};-) Family Origins does not put photo files in it's database. It only stores their address so that it can find and display them. The THU files you mention are thumbnail sized copies of the originals that are used for displaying on the monitor. Those small files take much less time to load than do the much larger originals. When Family Origins scans a photo, it stores it in a folder, My documents, my pictures then puts that address in the database so that it can find them the next time. If you move, rename or delete a picture, Family Origins won't be able to find it and when you try to open a scrapbook containing that picture you will get an error message. Pressing the OK button will display a barred circle rather than the photo and it will go on to the next one photo in the scrap-book. To scan a photo, put the photo in the scanner, Go to the person's scrapbook in Family Origins Select ADD Select Scan The scanning software loads and starts, then you scan the photo with that. Then you get a dialogue window, "Save Scanned Photo" where you give the file a name and a place to live. (see my Save As tutor at: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm You can select any folder you want for your photos, even create a new one.Hit the OK button and the photo is saved and the address is attached to FOW's scrapbook. BUT, if you have already saved a bunch of photo files in a folder and you want them in another one, study my Windows Explorer tutorial at the above site and move all of the photos and their thumbnail copies to the folder where you want them. Then use the FOW global search and replace in the tools menu to change the path where FOW looks for the photos to the new path and things should be fine. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: [FO] Why is FO 90.2 doubling the files of scanned photos? > Hello all, > Am I doing something wrong when I scan photos into the "scrapbook"? > They appear to be going into the database alright (I can see them almost > immediately) but now "My Documents" is jammed full of their files... two for > every scan. Why two? > The first file has a little box with a red dot (I can't quite see it > clearly enough to know if there are words) plus it has the extension .jpg and > it shows me a thumbnail of the photo when I click on it. > The second file has the Acrobat Reader logo, the extension .THU but > tells me it can't be opened because it doesn't begin with "%PDF-". I deleted > one of the .THU files to see what would happen. It removed the visible photo > from tree view but not the one in "scrapbook". I clicked off the "preferred > photo", clicked it back on and clicked okay... the photo reappeared so those > .THU files must be needed for *some*thing. > I really would like to get all the scrapbook photo files out of "My > Documents" and into a home of their own, but I don't know how. Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated, but please, be kind and remember > that it's my brother (now living way out in Nevada) who knows about > computers. I know about genealogy and entering data. > > Thank you in advance, > > Barbara Wright > Slidell, Louisiana > [email protected] > >