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GenoPro version: 2.5.3.9
Last Login: Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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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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Gamma
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GenoPro version: 3.1.0.1
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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 & nbsp ; collaboration version do pull the image into a sub folder .
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GenoPro version: 2.5.3.9
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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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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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GenoPro version: 2.5.3.9
Last Login: Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Posts: 104,
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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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