At 10:16 AM 12/16/2017, David Alan Stamm wrote: >2017-12-16-06T15:15Z > >¿Are there programmatic ways to: > > 1. determine whether an exhibit is internal, > > 2. where all internal exhibits are, and > > 3. change all internal exhibits to external? > >¿If so, what are those ways? > >I have recently learned the recommendation to >have only external exhibits. Most of my >exhibits are internal. I believe that most, if >not all, of my exhibits are in C:\Users\David >Alan Stamm\Documents\The Master Genealogist v9\Exhibits. Anything in that directory constitutes an external exhibit (or, at least, it was an external exhibit -- the file would remain even if you made the exhibit internal). The only answer to #1 (that I know of at the moment) is to open the exhibit log, set for all exhibits/all types, and then one-at-a-time select each exhibit and look at the short properties display on the lower right -- which will say (Internal) or (External)... Addendum: TMG Utility has the ability to export the Exhibit Log as HTML, which will show internal/external, path to external, etc. #2: Internal exhibits are stored within a Visual FoxPro table -- table I ("eye") per http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg9fstr.zip . For #3: TMG Utility has an Export Images (with option to convert Internal to External). However, I don't know if it does anything for TEXT exhibits (or anything other than images). For text exhibits, you'll likey have to select them in the exhibit log, view/edit, select all text/copy, then create a text file using some text editor and paste the result. And then comes the painful part of deleting the internal exhibit and adding the external text file as an exhibit -- I've not taken time to see if that can be done as some sort of in-place replacement or if you have to make a list of all places referenced and manually add the new exhibit to them. Internal text exhibits aren't too bad -- even a long one is only going to be a few kBytes unless you are OCRing a whole book. In contrast, even small images will likely run to MBytes (a 43-page RTF, which is not plain text so kept external, is only 320kB, whereas a small newspaper clipping as a scanned image is 718kB and my diplomas run 2MB. Most of the external text files I have -- emails -- are less than 5kB) -- [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/