Some time ago I relocated my project to a new computer. It had some external exhibits that were located in the standard location on the old computer. The new computer had a different name for the main user. The old main user was "Butch", the new main user was "Robert". There is no "Butch" user on the new computer so TMG always says it can't find the exhibits. I have an intact copy of the files in the "Butch" exhibit folder and have copied them all to the "Robert" exhibit folder. What I can't figure out is how to tell TMG the new exhibits location. Any help appreciated. An alternative might be to change them all to internal exhibits. Is there a way I can automate THAT process? Thanks Robert Thorpe

No, no, no, no. If you were to move the exhibits from external to internal you would be making more trouble. Exhibits may be anywhere. I keep them on the same drive as I store my TMG projects. You tell TMG where to find files by going to File, Preferences, Advanced, Exhibit Folder. Give it a try. Dick On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Robert Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time ago I relocated my project to a new computer. It had some > external > exhibits that were located in the standard location on the old computer. > The > new computer had a different name for the main user. The old main user was > "Butch", the new main user was "Robert". There is no "Butch" user on the > new > computer so TMG always says it can't find the exhibits. I have an intact > copy of the files in the "Butch" exhibit folder and have copied them all to > the "Robert" exhibit folder. What I can't figure out is how to tell TMG the > new exhibits location. Any help appreciated. > > > > An alternative might be to change them all to internal exhibits. Is there a > way I can automate THAT process? > > > > Thanks > > Robert Thorpe > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html >

That worked, sort of. I no longer get the "file folder not found" message, but some link must have been broken somewhere along the way because none of my exhibits are exhibiting. It looks like I will have to go back and relink all of them. Tedious, but not all that bad. I only have about 100. Robert Thorpe -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Vogel Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 3:19 PM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Subject: [TMG] Re: Location of exhibits Exhibits may be anywhere. I keep them on the same drive as I store my TMG projects. You tell TMG where to find files by going to File, Preferences, Advanced, Exhibit Folder. Give it a try.

At 4/2/2018 16:57, Robert Thorpe wrote >That worked, sort of. I no longer get the "file folder not found" message, >but some link must have been broken somewhere along the way because none of >my exhibits are exhibiting. It looks like I will have to go back and relink >all of them. Tedious, but not all that bad. I only have about 100. TMG can find and link the Exhibits when you run the File=>Maintenancce=>Verify File Integrity function. Select the Search for missing external exhibits option, click on the [Specificy the folders to search...] button and enter the file paths for the folders containing the Exhibits. At 4/2/2018 17:02, Robert Thorpe wrote >I would like to give this a try but it would be really great if I >could have multiple locations. I keep all my portraits in one place >for my own organizational convenience, but official documents are >somewhere else. Census records somewhere else again. Do you have a >workaround for this. Of course this assumes that you want to use the >original documents, not ones copied somewhere to a folder >exclusively used by TMG. That is not problem. I would suggest that you place all the various folder as sub-folders of a single folder. Then, select that folder as the file path that you enter in Preferences. Lee

To change the location of already created exhibits, you use the check file integrity function and give it the new location of where your exhibits are now stored. To get around this problem, I store all by exhibits in folders like C:\genealogy\exhibits that way it isn’t tied to my user name (or where this version of windows wants to place my user files). > On Apr 2, 2018, at 4:05 PM, Robert Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some time ago I relocated my project to a new computer. It had some external > exhibits that were located in the standard location on the old computer. The > new computer had a different name for the main user. The old main user was > "Butch", the new main user was "Robert". There is no "Butch" user on the new > computer so TMG always says it can't find the exhibits. I have an intact > copy of the files in the "Butch" exhibit folder and have copied them all to > the "Robert" exhibit folder. What I can't figure out is how to tell TMG the > new exhibits location. Any help appreciated. > > > > An alternative might be to change them all to internal exhibits. Is there a > way I can automate THAT process? > > > > Thanks > > Robert Thorpe > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

I would like to give this a try but it would be really great if I could have multiple locations. I keep all my portraits in one place for my own organizational convenience, but official documents are somewhere else. Census records somewhere else again. Do you have a workaround for this. Of course this assumes that you want to use the original documents, not ones copied somewhere to a folder exclusively used by TMG. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Damon [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 3:33 PM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Subject: [TMG] Re: Location of exhibits To change the location of already created exhibits, you use the check file integrity function and give it the new location of where your exhibits are now stored. To get around this problem, I store all by exhibits in folders like C:\genealogy\exhibits that way it isn’t tied to my user name (or where this version of windows wants to place my user files).

On 4/2/18 5:02 PM, Robert Thorpe wrote: > I would like to give this a try but it would be really great if I could have multiple locations. I keep all my portraits in one place for my own organizational convenience, but official documents are somewhere else. Census records somewhere else again. Do you have a workaround for this. Of course this assumes that you want to use the original documents, not ones copied somewhere to a folder exclusively used by TMG. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Damon [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 3:33 PM > To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> > Subject: [TMG] Re: Location of exhibits > > To change the location of already created exhibits, you use the check file integrity function and give it the new location of where your exhibits are now stored. > > To get around this problem, I store all by exhibits in folders like C:\genealogy\exhibits that way it isn’t tied to my user name (or where this version of windows wants to place my user files). Well, I have C:\genealogy\exhibits  Pictures and the like C:\genealogy\sources Most source documents, often also attached as an exhibit to the source C:\genealogy\sources\census for images of censuss. and so on. TMG does NOT require all exhibits come from a single folder, so I do scatter them a bit to organize them. VFI allows a list of directories to check, so even that doesn't get in the way (best to keep every file having a unique name to help VFI, if something breaks the links, it just takes the first matching name it finds))) -- Richard Damon

I have all photos, including scanned docs, in Pictures, where I have a couple hundred files. There are a lot of different family folders with subfolders. That's where my external files will be found. I do not use the TMG files for photos. Occasionally, I do lose the link when I decide a family group is getting too big and need to break it down, but that is easy to fix. Since I don't have a web site and mostly add the photos to print documents, I find them easily this way. Guess it depends on how you plan to use them, where you want to put them. - Sally On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Richard Damon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/2/18 5:02 PM, Robert Thorpe wrote: > > I would like to give this a try but it would be really great if I could > have multiple locations. I keep all my portraits in one place for my own > organizational convenience, but official documents are somewhere else. > Census records somewhere else again. Do you have a workaround for this. Of > course this assumes that you want to use the original documents, not ones > copied somewhere to a folder exclusively used by TMG. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Damon [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 3:33 PM > > To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> > > Subject: [TMG] Re: Location of exhibits > > > > To change the location of already created exhibits, you use the check > file integrity function and give it the new location of where your exhibits > are now stored. > > > > To get around this problem, I store all by exhibits in folders like > C:\genealogy\exhibits that way it isn’t tied to my user name (or where this > version of windows wants to place my user files). > > Well, I have > > C:\genealogy\exhibits Pictures and the like > > C:\genealogy\sources Most source documents, often also attached as an > exhibit to the source > > C:\genealogy\sources\census for images of censuss. > > and so on. > > TMG does NOT require all exhibits come from a single folder, so I do > scatter them a bit to organize them. VFI allows a list of directories to > check, so even that doesn't get in the way (best to keep every file > having a unique name to help VFI, if something breaks the links, it just > takes the first matching name it finds))) > > -- > Richard Damon > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb. > ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html

At 4/2/2018 16:05, Robert Thorpe wrote >Some time ago I relocated my project to a new computer. It had some external >exhibits that were located in the standard location on the old computer. The >new computer had a different name for the main user. The old main user was >"Butch", the new main user was "Robert". There is no "Butch" user on the new >computer so TMG always says it can't find the exhibits. I have an intact >copy of the files in the "Butch" exhibit folder and have copied them all to >the "Robert" exhibit folder. What I can't figure out is how to tell TMG the >new exhibits location. Any help appreciated. File=>Preferences=>Current Project Options=>Advanced=>Exhibits. >An alternative might be to change them all to internal exhibits. Is there a >way I can automate THAT process? No, and it is not recommended. Exhibit files are generally of a large size and since they are rarely changed in any way, it is better to leave them as external. Because of their large size, internal Exhibits tend to greatly increase TMG backups. It is much easier to manipulate and backup external Exhibits outside of TMG. In addition, if you use Second Site, any Exhibits to be included in a site need to be external Exhibits. Lee