* Projects and media sub file

[stewart60]

I have just started a second project. I thought all was fine until I tried to save a new census image. I have been used to being given the option of saving to the media sub folder but I wasn't given that option this time.

On checking the new project folder I saw a folder ending .fh_proj and another ending in family.fh_data

This second folder had the gedcom file and nothing else. The image had been saved to the gedcom file.

I then created a Media folder and all now seems to be functioning as I think it should!

Was I right to manually create this Media folder?- When I created my initial project I cannot remember creating a media folder. Is it created automatically on the first project and not subsequent ones?

Stewart



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[Jane]

Are you using Ancestral Sources to add the census?

I suspect you are as Family Historian correctly creates the media folder when you add media in it.

[stewart60]

You guessed right!

Yes I was using AS!


Thanks!

[tatewise]

A few other observations:

You mention 'a folder ending .fh_proj' but this is not a folder but the FH Project file that confirms to FH that it has found a Project structure.

On creating a new Project the Media folder is not created (perhaps it should).

On adding Multimedia and selecting Destination folder (if copying): as Default, then clicking Copy does create the Media folder automatically.

However, if you select Destination folder (if copying): as Let me choose, then clicking Copy is a BIG problem!
You are presented with a Choose Location for New Media window with your root username folder selected.
On Windows 7 this would be C:UsersFred where Fred is the username.
You then have to correctly navigate to the correct Project.fh_data folder, click Make New Folder, and name the new folder Media.
Then repeat this exercise to create the desired sub-folder.
This is contrary to what Jane said.
Even for experienced users, this is very error prone.
FH should at least select the correct Project.fh_data folder, but even better create and select the Media folder, as it does after having used the Default option mentioned above.

[Jane]

I took the default option which works fine, but the problem Stewart has was simply because he was using AS.

[tatewise]

Yes, but the cause of the problem, both for AS, and for the FH Let me choose option I describe above, is that FH does not create the Media folder initially.

[stewart60]

It would be easier altogether if FH set up the media folder when the new project is created.

Poor souls like me want the program to be as fully automated as possible so that when we save something then it's saving to the right place!!

As someone who has next to no knowledge of how a program's code works, I find it really hard to understand why something doesn't work  and getting to a solution often seems to be quite technical.

In this case I simply saw that a media file was missing and opened one up!- I still can't understand why its creation could not be automatic. This would remove any room for error.

What I fear sometimes is that I've not set up something correctly and that I am plodding on blissfully unaware that things are not right.

Thank you both for your invaluable help - your technical knowledge is so important to people like me.

Stewart  

[nsw]

My first thought is that I don't really think that Ancestral Sources should be creating system folders (like Media) within the Family Historian project folder so if FH hasn't created one it isn't going to copy data to it.

But perhaps I should? I always worry about upsetting Calico Pie by messing with the project folders themselves unless absolutely necessary.

[jsphillips]

This looks reasonaby important is it too latr for calico to add this media folder on a new product to the February release ??

[tatewise]

I have made just such a request as part of the FH Beta testing.

[stewart60]

Wow!
Great!
[wink]

[tatewise]

It looks like this should be fixed in FH V5.