[Brian Matherly <brian@gr...>]

Gary,

> >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

This is an excellent observation and suggestion. I think a great feature addition (for ALL export options) would be a new check box labeled "remove unreferenced objects". When this box is checked, Gramps would apply the filters as requested by the user, and then proceed to remove objects without references. It would perform the object clean up over and over until no more objects are removed.

~Brian