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Thanks for the help. I ended up using TMG Utility to just export everything to a new directory, and when I transferred the database over, I pointed to it to fix the missing images and it worked like a charm. Now I'll just cross my fingers that v8 gets rid of a lot of these weird quirks, such as being based on FoxPro. Sigh.

Hi, Jim. I'm trying to do it with your method, but even with all of the options checked for what to backup, it's only making a 300 odd meg backup file. That's way too small for all of the external exhibit files to be included in that. I don't see it collecting all of the exhibits into a single location anywhere.

Thanks for this tip, Tom! After taking a look at PathWiz (yikes...) I decided to use the TMG Utility on the old PC to just convert every single exhibit into one folder. I now only have a few I can correct by hand. Thanks!

Hi everyone. I transferred TMG7 to a new computer, and we copied the photo folders to something that made a lot more sense, because they were scattered all over the place before. Now I have plenty of broken exhibits (which is to be expected). I run the verify integrity tool, but it will not search subdirectories of folders I specify, making that tool fairly useless. Is there a way to force it to search these folders recursively, or do I really have to go and click every single one of them by hand? That seems so ridiculous that I feel like I must be missing an option somewhere. Thanks!

I just wanted to thank everybody in this thread. It was an adventure, but I was able to get this database down from over 2GB to less than 400MB when all was said and done. The database was so full that I had to move about 25 exhibits by hand to external before the TMG Utility would work properly, but after that and a few rounds of the tools in the TMG database, the difference is staggering now. Thanks again!

Looks to me like this hits the nail on the head. There are 10,000+ images in there, and no telling how many of those are internal exhibits. I know the images being added in later are (or should be) external. Is there any way to have it do this automatically? Or do I really have to click every single one of these by hand? There has to be some sort of utility for this. It seems like it would be a common problem. Thanks for the responses!

Hi. I have a fairly large database I am dealing with (2+ GBs) and I am having almost daily to run the database maintenance tools or I will get various errors on the database. It will always eventually throw up error messages about being too large and then prevent things from working right until the tools are ran. Is there any way around this? Is there an external utility to actually fix the database? Is it just too big? I know this FoxPro database type has to have some sort of limit, but I'm finding the support on this issue on the internet hard to find right now, and nothing obvious on the Wholly Genes website. Thanks!