FTM to TNG - media and places

[fluffy82]

Hi all,

I currently plan on keeping my FTM/ancestry tree as my main tree, repopulating TNG from time to time through gedcom. I need to do a "replace all" as I often delete or merge people, so the ID numbers might change between two exports... That is not a problem in itself. There are two issues:

- for some reason, FTM does not export Latitude and Longitude. While these are visible in FTM, and also visible in TNG (!), the maps won't work until I select each place separately and click on "search". It then goes to the numbers which were already present, and shows the map. Is there an easier way to do this?

- it was recommended for a correct import to name the files "p_" for photographs, "m_" for headstones and "d_" for documents, so TNG would recognise the media type, put them in the correct folder and make them searchable. As I am cleaning up my database anyway, I am renaming all my media in this format. But... they also show like that on the website. I find it very ugly. Isn't there another way of adding media without the prefix, but still keeping the media type so one can search for pictures or documents etc?

Regards,
Tom

[theKiwi]

What I did before TNG became smart enough to know that if it was in my "headstones" folder it was a headstone, was to name each media item so it was identifiable - so 

Headstone of Bill Smith

for example - then it was an easy task to search for all items with "headstone" in their name and change them to Headstones.

But now TNG has become much smarter, I keep my media in separate folders for each type that TNG recognises, and then on import, TNG puts them into the right collection auto-magically.

On my copy of Family Tree Maker it also supports this same sub-folder system - so in my "media" folder, I have sub-folders for documents, photos, headstones, etc. This is on a file that came by GEDCOM from Reunion. I then synched that tree and media to Ancestry and the media made it to Ancestry, despite being in a hierarchy of folders and sub-folders here on my computer.

Roger