I had that problem with over 6000 obits... what I did was have the obits in folders, A, B, C, etc... The obits had been named like this... Abb, Carl Earl. So I used the drag & drop method and from the thumb drive I got the obits on, I just uploaded them without putting anything in my county webpages files except a link to them... the comma's and spaces did not cause a problem doing it that way. Look here at the obit page on Houston County and see the link to Roy Smiths obituary files... click on the link and you will see the folder names, open a folder and you will see what I am saying... http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhousto/obituaries.htm So you might want to make a link say: So & So's photo's of San Geranimo Cemetery.... then let them go look instead of making individual links for individual names from a page... Just a thought.... Billie ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda Qualls To: Sue Tackel ; txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help Does it take the spaces out. I have the same problem with pictures with spaces sent to me. I have two ladies taking pictures. One sends them the way I like it but the other sent over 1000 with the names having spaces. Right now the San Geronimo Cemetery has 3,119 pictures with links to them. I started with one file and when that got to big I broke it down to A-C etc. So far I have broken it down several times. I have 16 files now with links to those pictures. Wanda Matthew 5 - 7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Tackel" <sue@wisecountytexas.info> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > There's a free photo program called Irfan View that we use all the > time. > Link to download - http://www.irfanview.com/ > It will do just about everything the expensive photo programs will do, > plus it will "batch rename" a folder full of pictures in one step. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norman M. Lewis, Jr." <treechaser@gmail.com> > To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > > >>I might be able to help. Does the excel file have the name of the related >> photo? If you will email me (treechaser@gmail.com) one of the excel >> files, >> I will be able to determine if I can be of any help. >> >> Norm Lewis >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of eleanorcol >> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 5:51 PM >> To: txgen-l@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help >> >> I have a wonderful lady who has done a lot of work on transcribing >> cemeteries and taking pictures in Grimes County. She recently sent me >> several CD's of listings and photos. My problem is that I don't have >> much >> time to work on the website. Also, she sent the listings in excel. Is >> there an easy way to save this file in a format that I can add links to >> the >> pictures? Also she saved the pictures with names that have spaces and >> hyphens that rootsweb won't accept. So in order to upload I have to copy >> them to my computer and then rename each one. Is there an easier way to >> do >> this? I'm not particularly computer savvy, especially on new things. >> >> Eleanor Colson >> Grimes County TXGenWeb >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in >> the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Billie, That does sound like a good idea. I'll have to go ahead and do what I started on one of the cemeteries. All of the photo files say Waller Cemetery - number. So I'm having to open them up to see who they are and rename them without spaces and the hyphen. I might use this idea on the larger cemeteries. Thanks! Eleanor Colson In a message dated 05/02/09 22:59:58 Central Daylight Time, nichols1836@windstream.net writes: I had that problem with over 6000 obits... what I did was have the obits in folders, A, B, C, etc... The obits had been named like this... Abb, Carl Earl. So I used the drag & drop method and from the thumb drive I got the obits on, I just uploaded them without putting anything in my county webpages files except a link to them... the comma's and spaces did not cause a problem doing it that way. Look here at the obit page on Houston County and see the link to Roy Smiths obituary files... click on the link and you will see the folder names, open a folder and you will see what I am saying... http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhousto/obituaries.htm So you might want to make a link say: So & So's photo's of San Geranimo Cemetery.... then let them go look instead of making individual links for individual names from a page... Just a thought.... Billie ----- Original Message ----- From: Wanda Qualls To: Sue Tackel ; txgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help Does it take the spaces out. I have the same problem with pictures with spaces sent to me. I have two ladies taking pictures. One sends them the way I like it but the other sent over 1000 with the names having spaces. Right now the San Geronimo Cemetery has 3,119 pictures with links to them. I started with one file and when that got to big I broke it down to A-C etc. So far I have broken it down several times. I have 16 files now with links to those pictures. Wanda Matthew 5 - 7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Tackel" <sue@wisecountytexas.info> To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > There's a free photo program called Irfan View that we use all the > time. > Link to download - http://www.irfanview.com/ > It will do just about everything the expensive photo programs will do, > plus it will "batch rename" a folder full of pictures in one step. > Sue > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Norman M. Lewis, Jr." <treechaser@gmail.com> > To: <txgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 6:20 PM > Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help > > >>I might be able to help. Does the excel file have the name of the related >> photo? If you will email me (treechaser@gmail.com) one of the excel >> files, >> I will be able to determine if I can be of any help. >> >> Norm Lewis >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:txgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >> Behalf Of eleanorcol >> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 5:51 PM >> To: txgen-l@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [TXGEN] Excel and photo help >> >> I have a wonderful lady who has done a lot of work on transcribing >> cemeteries and taking pictures in Grimes County. She recently sent me >> several CD's of listings and photos. My problem is that I don't have >> much >> time to work on the website. Also, she sent the listings in excel. Is >> there an easy way to save this file in a format that I can add links to >> the >> pictures? Also she saved the pictures with names that have spaces and >> hyphens that rootsweb won't accept. So in order to upload I have to copy >> them to my computer and then rename each one. Is there an easier way to >> do >> this? I'm not particularly computer savvy, especially on new things. >> >> Eleanor Colson >> Grimes County TXGenWeb >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in >> the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message