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Ok, all you guys, and gals, Some of your messages are just coming through tonight. Many thanks for your replys, and re-replys. I hope I can add value soon. Cole

Michael, Jim, Michael, Thank you so much for that last statement, and Jim, I didn't see you clarification until a few minutes ago. I've spent the last two days trying so many different tasks to see what would actually make the GEDCOM transfer. I fear I've spent so much time on GEDCOM when I should have been studying backup/restore. It's a little puzzling to me why the EXPORT/IMPORT tools seem to give so much credibility to GEDCOM. Do you have any clue why LDS abandoned GEDCOM? Anyway, tomorrow I'll redirect my efforts to backup/restore, Project Manager, and it's features, and hope that I can figure a way to do some automation on this imaging project that's on my plate. I'm soon to assume responsibility of a significant account and data integrity will be tatamount. The whole association will soon be clamoring for access and imaging. I'm sure I'll need some assistance from staff, and some data set time sharing will be helpful, if I can get a secure set of procedures established. Hope I can call on you guys later. I've worked with some entry level programming, but reality suggests to my minimal software knowledge that Velke/TMG certainly cannot afford to build a utility that would allow "like" transfers between data sets. Nevertheless, I'm comfortable with the apparent standards that TMG appears to be setting. Pretty presumptious for someone who's never tried another product, huh? and I've had a glass of cabernet, so maybe tomorrow morning I'll get back to the drawing board. Thanks so much for your responses. Cole

BTW, I even created the extra directory levels to match the two systems, so the paths matched perfectly, even thought some of the directories were blank except for the lower directory that the path called for. I could even put the image file in the desired path and the target system could find and display it, but if I deleted the image file, GEDCOM could not convey it from the source system, even after all the Merger/Maintenance/Validate File Integrity tricks I could conjure up. As I said, this is important in the face of transferring many images between systems. I can't even get one image to transfer. I think it must be my failure, not a GEDCOM failure. Help????

I worked extensively this evening to get directory paths matched for the GEDCOM Export/import requirements and even when I created directories and paths to match on both systems, the image didn't transfer. The GEDCOM wizard has a window that allows you to create some magic here, but I need more magic, evidently. The verbage in the wizard indicates that "he really wants to help you do it" but I haven't understood it all, yet. In WinXP, some systems display a directory tree starting with "My Documents" that will drill down, but then below that is the "My Computer" with all the subs that will also let you drill down to user, and directories. Other WinXP installations gen with directories that begin with "Desktop" and then drill down through "My Computer", etc. The difference here is that one configuration makes you go through "Users" and the other doesn't. I suspect this could be a hangup when defining the path for locating an image file. I'm still experimenting with this. It's really important, because if we are going to be dealing with up to hundreds or possibly a few thousand images, this could be important.

My Mother and I are researching the same two families and we want to share data sets and especially exhibits(images primarily) in the hopes of getting our data sets populated with images more quickly. We each own a licensed copy of TMG7.04. I've learned how to do the GEDCOM import/export routine and I think I'm getting a grip on the concept of two data sets in a project, and the locked/unlocked and the merge features. What I've not come to grips with is how to best share images. GEDCOM hasn't done it for me yet with what I've tried, and I suspect that it will not. It seems that backup and restoring will work between two systems/licensing but that's pretty risky in my opinion. I'm trying to learn how to do this with only a few images, rather than when we get many images loaded. Can anyone help me to better understand internal and external images and if some distinction here will help me solve this problem? Regards Cole Poindexter crpoindex@embarqmail.com