How to fix more than one media file is checked as primary
Quote from thejerrybryan on 2026-01-18, 11:38 amI'm not going to edit my most recent post, but I think most of my theorizing about causes was bogus. The problem is only for when more than one media file for the same item is marked IsPrimary. Copying facts and merging people couldn't do that when the item is a fact like what I have because RM never merges facts. So, bogus. But maybe the same idea could still apply when the media files are tagged to the person record (the PersonTable) because RM does merge those.
thanks for looking into that -- it seemed from what Jamie described the media was linked to people and not facts.
Quote from kevync on 2026-01-18, 9:23 pm
thanks for looking into that -- it seemed from what Jamie described the media was linked to people and not facts.
Any duplicate primary media for people could conceivably be caused by merges. What I was trying to correct was the notion that my particular duplicate primary media could have been caused by merges. 100% of my duplicate primary media was for facts, and facts cannot be merged in the same sense that people can. So in my case, at least, there has to be some other cause.
Well, I am eating my words too! I found that the problem with multiple primary media shows up in my tree in August (and probably earlier) before I did the dragging and dropping. So who knows ............ Next I am going to uncheck all media and see if upload works. If so, I will run the script to check the first media file as primary and see if I can upload to a new tree. Will let ya'll know!