Thanks, Richard. That's partly what's caused my problems. I started off naming, for example, the birth registration file for Mary Jane Brown as MJBrown birth.jpg and 1860 census-MJBrown.jpg.
Then came a great reorganization of pictures. There were Margaret Jean Browns in my family, a couple of Mary Janes, maybe even a Muriel Joan. Which one did this file refer to? I wasn't collecting census images by year either, i was collecting census images for particular people. So that started a mass renaming and reassigning project where I changed names to Brown Mary Jane 1879 birth.jpg where I put in the year if there was more than one Mary Jane Brown. For her marriage registration I used Brown Mary Jane-Smith Robert marriage.jpg and the same format for her death. For censuses I used Brown Mary Jane-1860 census. How I wish I'd thought of this originally, could have saved myself a lot of work. What did we ever do in the old 8-3 DOS days?! Helen Richard Van Wasshnova wrote: > WARNING! > Following Dennis' instructions could get you in big trouble IF a > filename in one directory is simply "Mary.jpg" and an identically > named file exists in another directory. I have simple filenames like > page21.jpg for source citations. Sometimes I see german script on a > page that should be in French. I'm still working on correcting them. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
