Hi. I recently switched to a Linux system on my laptop and up until now I have been using Roots Magic along with Ancestry. I just started using Gramps and uploaded a gedcom from Ancestry. It uploaded ok, however none of my pictures or media are there. I see them in the media folder not they are not attached to anyone. I read that to have the media uploaded as well, I needed to upload a gedcom that came from Roots Magic. So I tried that today and I still have the same issue.
I tried repairing the media links with no success. Please tell me there is a way to get all my media onto my tree without me having to add each one again.
Media path resolving is not something with which I have any experience. Adding that the GEDCOM was from Roots Magic on Windows and the destination is Gramps on Linux complicates things further.
I’m hoping someone here who can answer is also on Facebook. But if necessary, I’ll transcribe any answer to there.
Under the Tools menu the fourth item (I have the Dutch installation, so I am not sure about the wording) that gives you a set of other tools and one is “Mediabeheerder”, I guess MediaManager. There you can see what paths are used now for your media, and that are probably the Windows-style path (something like C:\Users\etc…. In there you find a little tool to change those paths to the ones where you have now your media Linux-style and -location.
Thanks! Did a Weblate search in the Dutch translations of the Program component for “Mediabeheerder” (Didn’t find it. Looks like the actual tool menu item was “Mediabeheer”)
In case you want to do such reverse look-ups for Dutch (nl) translations, here’s the search pattern:
The Tools → Utilities → Media Manager seems to be the right tool.
Unfortunately, that wiki article (and the Media Management article) are written so that this functionality is not obvious… even after multiple readings.
