Re: [Gramps-devel] GEDOM question

[Peter L. <pet...@te...>]

Den Friday 27 June 2008 16:58:24 skrev Gary Burton:
> 
> >This means that I have to go through all notes and change the private state If I will do a restricted export.
> >My original questions was about all unnecessay notes etc exported with UNrestricted export for a part of the >complete database. So if I want to give away, as a GEDCOM file, a branch of my family tree to some other family >researcher, who is interested in just that branch of my tree, he/she will the get all sources, repositories and >notes, which I don't think he/she is interested in.
> 
> As a simple workaround - this might work - I haven't tried it yet
> 
> 1) Export a filtered subset of people to a Gramps XML file
> 2) Import the XML file back into an empty database
> 3) Clean the database using the "Remove Unused Objects" tool to get rid of unwanted objects which should now be unlinked to individuals & families. It might be necessary to do this a few times -  events first, then places, sources, notes etc.
> 4) Export the whole database as a Gedcom
> 
> Bye
> 
> Gary
> 

Made a quick test. And it works perfectly. I had to do three  "Remove Unused Objects"  to get rid of all unnecessary info.
 I got a GEDCOM file of 2 981 bytes in stead of 1 095 773 bytes. (366 times smaller)

/Peter