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Hello Mike, Its something to do with the URLs being different. I used a photo from someone else's tree to attach to one of the people in my small test tree, that has previously been working and it failed with the new photo. The URL that the download plugin is looking for (ie says it failed on) is in...

Hi Mike, Yes I know that my loal files are not known to the plugin, I just meant the files stored in the FH Media directory when I said local. I have re-done my main tree download from Ancestry and get the same failed majority, oddly a different quantity. I am now wondering whether the download plug...

In the successful run this is what I did : Using Firefox I logged into Ancestry, created a new tree, added one person, then ran the Download plugin. I then did this (but I missed the download Gedcom step to get the new person into an FH project) After that I went to my main working tree in Ancestry,...

Hello Mike, Yes, the successful downloads are my personal images, but they were stored locally anyway. I don't even know why they should have been updated. I am not sure they are even on the Ancestry site. Is that intended ? After using the download plugin should the images be disconnected form thei...

ok, next chapter. I added one more person into my test tree from my main Ancestry tree, tried to run the download and got the 'Download website not found in any Media Records'. Now it keeps giving that error message. Just looked at the media record and it doesn't contain a URL, it is just stored loc...

Hi Mike, I have had a small success. Using Firefox, I created a new Ancestry Tree with just one person in it and put one random photo in it. I then followed your process for seeding the Download plugin, while still logged in to Ancestry, and it worked :) So I will now copy a few of my real tree peop...

Hi Mike, I dont trust Internet Explorer, I have never used it on this PC previously. Ancestry gave me a message saying that some functionality would not work with IE and that I should update my browser. However, having said that I did the experiment and got 98 failed and no successes this time. Chee...

Morning Mike, On the contrary, thanks to you for your continuined help. This morning I ran the plugin again and got 7 successses and 98 failures. The mode of failure of all 98 is 'http status Not Found 404'. A couple of examples : http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=457f238f-8d87-492f-b576-03d...

Hi Mike, thanks again for your continuing assistance. I now know what the 'File box' is. Almost all the URLs in my File box for media are like the example you gave, the one I quoted is an odd one out. However, I can fix it when I have this plugin issue resolved. When I double click the media name on...

Hi Mike, Thanks for your welcome and speedy response and the hint of where to find my Ancestry Media Gallery. I went to media gallery right clicked random image and chose 'View Image'. This brought me to a page with no Ancestry side bar or top bar. I copied the URL from the browser address bar into ...

Hello Mike, I am a new user of Family Historian v7 and this forum. I tried FH for the 30 day trial and was so impressed that I bought it. I particularly like the user developed plugin capability. Anyway I saw your posts about the download of media from Ancestry and was immediately interested. I have...