Hi,
I have the latest version of GED installed (v 4.2.3) which I upgraded from v 4.2.2). I have three family trees on my site but since the upgrade my media is all linked wrong.
All the trees are seeing on media library and not their own. On one tree when I try to link to media it only offers media from another folder. any ideas how I fix this?
Thanks
Paul
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Did you do the upgrade by setting up a parallel site with the new version, or did you do an upgrade-in-place where you simply replaced the PGV software with the new version, followed by a re-import of the GEDCOMs?
If you did an upgrade-in-place, you shouldn't be having this problem.
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How do you have the separate media libraries organized? Are they distinct sub-directories within the PhpGedView install directory, or are they sub-directories subordinate to the single default "media" directory?
The first option would consist of extra sub-directories parallel to the default "media" directory.
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They are sub folders of a main media folder. I have a sub folder for each family name. Where are the settings that define which folder applies to which family name?
Thanks
Paul
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By "family name" you mean the name of each of the three separate family tree databases, right?
You should organize your media for each of the family trees into separate directories, all off the main PhpGedView directory. They should be parallel to the existing "media" directory instead of being sub-directories of that "media" directory. You can call these media directories by any name you like, such as "media1", "media2", and "media3". You don't need to call one of them "media".
Put the pictures belonging to a particular tree onto the correct media directory.
In the GEDCOM configuration, Multimedia section, you find the name of the media directory for that family tree. You can change the default "media" to anything you like, as above.
You will not be able to share any pictures among your family trees. Instead, you'll have to upload the same picture into each family tree's media directory separately.
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I have two new problems now. Firstly the list of media in the 'lists\multimedia' option is about 15 files which dont exist. Whichever family I chose it is the same 15 files.
The media for existing individuals is intact and appears under each individual or family media link.
Secondly, I can no longer generate thumb nail files for some files. I have only tried JPGs at the moment and it keeps failing on one specifically.
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Forget the last post, I restarted my browser and the odd files are gone. Thumb nails seem to be okay BUT…..
I now get the media for the same one family appearing as the media list for all the families. I have them as separate folders in the root of PGV and I've set the paths for each GEDCOM multimedia setting.
any suggestions?
Thanks
Paul
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I have discovered that the medialist displayed is the first one selected by a new user (new session).
I came to the site from a new browser and did not logon. I selected one of my families and then the medialist. It displayed the media just for that family. I selected a second and third family and it still displayed the media for the first one.
I then logged on as my admin account and selected a different family. This time the newly selected family media was displayed BUT when I chose a different family the newly selected one's media was still displayed.
I repeated this in IE, Firefox and Safari and it happenned exactly the same in all browsers on different computers (and OS). I tried a number of different usernames and the same thing happenned. Any idea how I fix this in my site?
Thanks
Paul
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Hi,
I have the latest version of GED installed (v 4.2.3) which I upgraded from v 4.2.2). I have three family trees on my site but since the upgrade my media is all linked wrong.
All the trees are seeing on media library and not their own. On one tree when I try to link to media it only offers media from another folder. any ideas how I fix this?
Thanks
Paul
Did you do the upgrade by setting up a parallel site with the new version, or did you do an upgrade-in-place where you simply replaced the PGV software with the new version, followed by a re-import of the GEDCOMs?
If you did an upgrade-in-place, you shouldn't be having this problem.
Hi,
yes it was an upgrade in place, I overwrote the files as per readme.
Paul
How do you have the separate media libraries organized? Are they distinct sub-directories within the PhpGedView install directory, or are they sub-directories subordinate to the single default "media" directory?
The first option would consist of extra sub-directories parallel to the default "media" directory.
They are sub folders of a main media folder. I have a sub folder for each family name. Where are the settings that define which folder applies to which family name?
Thanks
Paul
By "family name" you mean the name of each of the three separate family tree databases, right?
You should organize your media for each of the family trees into separate directories, all off the main PhpGedView directory. They should be parallel to the existing "media" directory instead of being sub-directories of that "media" directory. You can call these media directories by any name you like, such as "media1", "media2", and "media3". You don't need to call one of them "media".
Put the pictures belonging to a particular tree onto the correct media directory.
In the GEDCOM configuration, Multimedia section, you find the name of the media directory for that family tree. You can change the default "media" to anything you like, as above.
You will not be able to share any pictures among your family trees. Instead, you'll have to upload the same picture into each family tree's media directory separately.
Okay thank you. I'll give thata go.
Paul
I have two new problems now. Firstly the list of media in the 'lists\multimedia' option is about 15 files which dont exist. Whichever family I chose it is the same 15 files.
The media for existing individuals is intact and appears under each individual or family media link.
Secondly, I can no longer generate thumb nail files for some files. I have only tried JPGs at the moment and it keeps failing on one specifically.
Forget the last post, I restarted my browser and the odd files are gone. Thumb nails seem to be okay BUT…..
I now get the media for the same one family appearing as the media list for all the families. I have them as separate folders in the root of PGV and I've set the paths for each GEDCOM multimedia setting.
any suggestions?
Thanks
Paul
**UPDATE**
I have discovered that the medialist displayed is the first one selected by a new user (new session).
I came to the site from a new browser and did not logon. I selected one of my families and then the medialist. It displayed the media just for that family. I selected a second and third family and it still displayed the media for the first one.
I then logged on as my admin account and selected a different family. This time the newly selected family media was displayed BUT when I chose a different family the newly selected one's media was still displayed.
I repeated this in IE, Firefox and Safari and it happenned exactly the same in all browsers on different computers (and OS). I tried a number of different usernames and the same thing happenned. Any idea how I fix this in my site?
Thanks
Paul
There's a known problem with media when you have more than one family tree.
Media information is kept in memory. When you switch to a different family tree, it's not erasing the information in memory.
I'll look into this. It shouldn't be too hard to fix.
OK, thank you. Appreciate your help and PGV is a great system.
Look forward to a fix, no rush, I havent bothered with second family media until now ;-)
Paul