Before GEDCOM7 ZIPs become a common situation

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Some issues:

• 0012407: Segmented .gpkg archives
• 0012407: Segmented .gpkg archives - Gramps - Bugtracker – Free Genealogy…
• 0009667: Gramps package import won’t work if media directory already exists…
• 0009232: Default base path for relative media paths is inappropriate. - Gramps…
• 0007156: Gramps package import won’t work if media directory already exists -…

Import/convert old database

Note that the final output of recovering a database file is normally a.gramps or .gpkg file. Then you can import that into a new, blank tree. It is important to note that the database only has filename & path pointers (some may be relative, some may be absolute, some may be internet URLs)… the database does NOT store the actual media objects. So your recovery process must include restoring the recovered file to the original machine. Then you can make a backup INCLUDING media. This backup file…

Since Gramps Web does not support importing gpkg file, how to import media files?

Hi, I did used for a long time the portable version of Gramps. I paused for a couple of years and now I want to start where I left. My setup is a raspberry pi 4 with 8GB RAM on which I have a NFS share from my NAS. I wanted to try the new GrampsJS interface and so made the execution as described on the documents (Deployment > Docker). I’m using the proposed docker-compose.yml file (though I changed the port 80 to keep 5000). The execution was perfect. My only issue is that the import only su…