Photos of Living People

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 19 Jul 2011 08:21

Is it possible to export a filtered gedcom file that omits the photos of living people? I would then like to use this new file to publish web pages without completely destroying the original FH file.

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 19 Jul 2011 09:28

Just export your file and then open the exported copy
and you can use a Query to show all media links for the living and delete them, alternately, you can add a keyword to all the media which containing living people and then use a media query to find and delete all the relevant photographs.

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 19 Jul 2011 11:40

Thanks, Jane.

How do I show all media links of just the living (and not everyone) in order then to delete them?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 19 Jul 2011 12:42

Assuming you don't have hundreds of media objects attached to each person. Just do a query based on Individuals and add a Column for Multimedia objects and select Individuals where the Living Flag is set and keep seleteing the Multimedia column and pressing delete and then running the query again.

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 19 Jul 2011 15:25

Sorry, Jane, but I'm not an expert with queries and have only used custom ones. Does this require expert knowledge? Any chance of breaking this down into simple steps for me?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 19 Jul 2011 16:05

If you start by looking at:

http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... ng_a_query

it will show you have to build a query, then you should be able to work it out from the instructions I already posted. If not come back when you get stuck.

Forpm · Post by **Forpm** » 19 Jul 2011 16:57

Many thanks. That worked perfectly.

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