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By desny - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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Hi,
I am now adding pictures to my GenoPro family tree and I would like to design a directory structure well adjusted to
my requirements. In particular, I would like to be able to copy my latest complete genealogy data (organised in a tree
structure with Pictures, Documents, GenoProData (with *.gno files) sub-directories) to my laptop when I am travelling
and still keep my pictures links working, although the complete path above the "Genealogy" directory is different on
the 2 computers.
Reading the on-line support page describing the parameters for Pictures, I read:
"Preserve Full Path
This option should be checked if the picture is not in a folder near your document..."
My question is: how "near" must the pictures be?
- should all relevant pictures be in the same directory as ****.gno?
- can they be in a directory which is a "brother" of their corresponding ****.gno
- can they be in directories which are nephews of their corresponding ****.gno
Thank you for your help. Best Regards
Roland
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By jcmorin - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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I would create folder net to the gno file and put them there.
It's a bad decision from my point of view to not pull back the picture used in the tree. Back 10 years ago, it was to save hard disk space and not duplicate the picture. Todays hard drive are cheap and people searching their missing pictures. The forever-waiting collaboration version do pull the image into a sub folder.
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By desny - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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Thank you for your reply. By next, do you mean:
...\genealogy\genoprodata\***.gno
...\genealogy\pictures\***.jpg
or everything into the same directory:
...\genealogy\genoprodata\***.gno and ***.jpg
In a sub-folder, I guess it would be organized like this:
...\genealogy\genoprodata\pictures\***.jpg
Any preference/advantage for anyone of these 3 different organizations?
Best regards
Roland
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By jcmorin - Wednesday, July 6, 2011
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I perfer 1 folder per file, easy to backup and search..
...\genealogy\SmithFamily\***.gno...\genealogy\SmithFamily\photos\***.jpb...\genealogy\SmithFamily\files\***.pdf, *.doc...\genealogy\SmithFamily\...
Having the gno in the root of the folder, make it faster to the open the file without searching from a huge list of images or files.
It's only a preference of course, someone could have another good storing technique.
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By desny - Saturday, July 9, 2011
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Hi,
I used your recommended structure:
...\genealogy\SmithFamily\***.gno
...\genealogy\SmithFamily\photos\***.jpb
...\genealogy\SmithFamily\files\***.pdf, *.doc
It works well. My ...\genealogy directory is now portable. I can copy it to different computers with different disk maps
and structures and GenoPro finds its pictures without any other changes.
Thank you for your help. Best regards
Roland
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