Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
I have recently added a new drive to my pc and wanted a quick way to update the media path file. Whilst there is standard tool within RM5 to fix broken media links, it searches through my entire pc which now has 5TB of data – it picks up files from backup directories and generally…
OK, this is a little misleading as it will only work for images (i.e. not applicable for text files or pdf files) ~ if anyone can show me how to check for valid paths from sqlite, i would be stoked! SELECT * FROM Multimediatable WHERE Thumbnail is null AND Mediafile like ‘%.jpg’; Discussions & comments…
Importing and merging duplicates of persons, families, places and sources already in a database can give rise to unwanted proliferation of duplicate items in the Media Gallery and multiple links to the same media item from a person, family, event, place or source. RMGC_Properties – Query now reports the quantities of such duplicates. A problem…
The following was written in 2011 and RM Inc did rise to the challenge and produced a Backup option that includes media. However, it does two things that some people do not like if they are forced to restore from that backup: Their carefully developed folder structure for media is collapsed into one media folder…