I upgraded last week from 5.1.6 to 5.2.2, and many of the recently added documents and photos did not progress to the new version. So I have to add them manually again. I work on a Windows 10 laptop.
What should I have done to prevent this from happening? I did not change the places where the photos were stored on my computer.
Could some kind of helpful tip or warning be added to the download-manual? Thank you.
The obvious suspect is that the Base media path (Family Tree tab of Preferences) has been lost during the transition.
See if the “path” of your missing media are relative rather than absolute.
I work with relative paths, is that correct?
Maybe I have to do the export - import again? In a new Gramps 5.2.2 installation?
It is more effective to just use your OS to find ONE of the missing files. Copy the path.
Then paste to missing part of the path into the Base media path of the Family Tree tab in Preferences.
If that was the problem, then all the other “missing” media files will be found too.
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It did not work, now more photos are gone, but anyway thank you.
Welcome!
Some questions.
After installing 5.2.2 did you let the program upgrade the 5.1 database to 5.2 or did you create a new tree/database in 5.2.2 and then import a backup file?
If you imported a backup file, was the backup created using the backup process or was it created using the export process? Were the media files included in the backup?
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Thank you. I think I let the program upgrade the 5.1 database to 5.2, because I usually do it that way with a new release. So I opened Gramps in 5.2.1 and then went to the trees I had in the 5.1.6 version which came with the backup.
I think I used the export process, but I do not remember 100%. The media files were supposed to be included in the backup.
Since you are not sure of how you updated your database, I am not sure.
Opening your 5.1 Gramps database, what is the Base Media Path set to in Preferences >> General tab?
Do the same by opening your 5.2 Gramps database, what is the Base Media Path set to in on the Preferences >> Family Tree tab?
Thank you.
…\AppData\Roaming\gramps\grampsdb with 5.1
…\AppData\Roaming\gramps\gramps52 with 5.2
You sure about that? It is … undesirable … to have the Base media path pointing at your tree database folder.
I agree with @emyoulation, the directories you provided are not normally where media records are stored. The directory you provided for 5.1 is a database folder and what you provided for 5.2 is the version folder that store’s all your settings for what Gramps looks like.
But lets also gather another piece of information.
On your computer hard drive, what is the folder that you store your raw media records? All the .jpg, .png files that you have gathered.
I will have a look later on. I am sorry but I am not an expert in these programs. For Gramps it seems you need to study a lot of it stuff in order to use it.
I never understood the photos in gramps, where i should store them etc. I have them in my own files. Where should I have them?
These fields were already fileld in with what there was. I cannot open the trees in 5.1.6 anymore because i have to upgrade.
The reason why I went to 5.2 is because i got offered these new add ons and they confused me but i tried to add them and then my db crashed more or less. Luckily I had made a back up the week before (or an export).
It looks like this on 5.2:
Are NTFS file names case sensitive?
what are NTFS files? I am a simple genealogist.
NTFS is the Windows filesystem. I was puzzled why your backup directory is “C:\Users\Annabelle\Documents\Documents” but your media directory is “c:\users\annabelle\documents\documents”.
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oh I see, I don’t know why.
This has not really been helpful, i will just add media by hand and do it all again next time. I use gramps because it is not online and that is why i like it. But it is very complicated for me, who is not so knowledgeable in IT stuff.
Store all your media files beneath a single directory. This will be your base media path. You can create any sub-directory structure of your choosing under this directory.
My approach is to backup my Gramps database and media files separately. You any backup tool of your choosing to backup the media files.
In Gramps each media file has a path. To find a file Gramps simply appends the path to the base path for media files. If a file is not found, do the same yourself and see if you can find the file using a file manager.
No. Documents and documents are the same folder, and in Windows, folders can also have aliases, so that a folder named Documenten (in Dutch) actually is the same as Documents, at least the one in my Users folder, which may also be shown as Gebruikers (in Dutch).
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