Hi Betty -Once again this is only my way - I'm sure everybody has a way that makes senseto them and that's the general idea. You want a system that makes sense when youfile something AND when you forget where it is and want to find it. My system tries to follow the KISS principle [Keep it Simple, Sweetheart!] I Set up a Folder named Pictures [You can use any name -Pics/Fotos/Slides/ etc] Then within that folder enter a new folder FOR EACH SURNAME YOU RESEARCH. Then within each Surname folder you can break it down as far as you like to a folderfor each family, or each person. I have one for each of my siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces,nephews, etc. as they marry and start a family. Essentially a folder for every Family. The key is to move all your media to that One Pictures File and set it as your DefaultFolder in RM - That gives you a single folder for RM to hunt thru for fixes etc. ANDfor you to search thru to find the lost item. Good Luck with YOUR system.Love, Lou From: Betty Stokes via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 12:11 PM Subject: [RMagic] Media I need suggestions regarding Media I'm a long time Roots Magic User. I also subscribe to  Ancestry.  Then I bought Family Tree Maker to sync with my desktop.  Then I downloaded my tree (trees) from Ancestry to RootsMagic. In the process I have made it very difficult to have my media I had in Rootsmagic show up in the place I had them before.  I haven't actually lost anything. I have just made VERY the process unhandy.  When I have made a comment about the Media problem before, the reply was that Roots Magic can find it wherever it is. The problem as I see it is that when I go to TOOLS, PROGRAM OPTIONS, FOLDERS, MULTIMEDIA FILES, everything is not in the same location.  To get to the place, I have C:\Users\Stokes\Documents\Genealogy\ (way too much as I am the only user on my computer) On RootsMagic, I added media to individuals from the Surname file where I have like "Stokes Pictures."  When I try the "fix" thing, everything I had previously doesn't come up and the media I have from Ancestry doesn't either although it sometimes does if I am doing a search.  If I add FTM Media, the pictures will come up not the ones from my surname file.  I have 5 trees on Ancestry including one containing my RM tree I uploaded a few years ago and have not  been consistent about adding to it. As it is now, I have to go to the Users, etc. item in TOOLS to get to media I choose.  I never had a "Gallery" where everything was in one location.  It didn't work well with how I was researching. It is pretty obvious that I need to do some relocating of folders and Media but can't figure it out.  Any advice? Betty =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message