* FH v6.2 to v7: Local Multimedia Object Titles Didn't Transfer Over

[kathykult]

Hello! I just upgraded to Family Historian 7 and must say WOW!! This is a fabulous upgrade!

I've opened my GEDCOM file from Family Historian 6.2 into a new Family Historian 7 project, and all went well (so far) except for my multimedia objects. I noticed that all of my multimedia objects that were "local" to an individual record are now turned into global multimedia records. That is fine, however all of my titles have dropped off from my local objects during the switchover to a FH7 project.

NOTE: I was not using the "project" feature in FH6.2 before, but I am in FH7.

In GEDCOM-eze, this means that what was coded as this in my FH 6.2 GEDCOM file:
1 OBJE
2 FORM jpeg
2 TITL Kathy Kult and Family, circa 2002
2 FILE C:\EasyPHP-5.3.9\www\kks-fam\public_html\photos\families\KULT-Kathy-2002.jpg
2 _DATE 2002

is now a multimedia object record link in FH7's exported GEDCOM file:
1 OBJE @O1163@

which links to this multimedia record:
0 @O1163@ OBJE
1 FILE C:\EasyPHP-5.3.9\www\kks-fam\public_html\photos\individuals\KULT-KathyAnn-2002.jpg
2 FORM jpeg
1 _DATE 2002
1 _KEYS Picture

The "2 TITL" highlighted above didn't get transferred for some reason.

Has anyone else experienced this when upgrading to FH7? And if so, is there a fix? If not, how do I report this as something to fix? I have over 2,000 images in my project, so adding all those titles in manually will be very onerous.

Thanks for any advice you can provide!

[tatewise]

Yes, if my memory is correct, that problem was detected and reported but not necessarily fixed during beta testing.

You can report it to Calico Pie via their http://www.calico-pie.com/osticket/open.php support ticket system.

I hope you have a backup of your original FH V6.2 GEDCOM and Media files, otherwise those Titles are gone forever.

[kathykult]

Thank you tatewise for your answer. Yes, I have backups of backups of backups, and if all else fails, I can always get my GEDCOM off of my website.

I did figure out though that this doesn't happen if I just stick to using the GEDCOM file in FH, and not make a "project." Perhaps that will convince me to wait on using projects until this little glitch is fixed

Thanks again tatewise! I'll report it.

[tatewise]

Actually, exactly the same symptoms apply to FH v6.2 if you create a Project.
I reported the problem in November 2018 but although a similar problem when Merging GEDCOM has been fixed in FH v7.0 the Create Project corollary has not.