Okay. I am fed up.

[fluffy82]

12 hours ago, theKiwi said:

I certainly would be interested in hearing in more detail from @fluffy82 on how they have it set up at their end, including whether the folders and sub-folders work for 2 way synching to/from Ancestry.com if that's part of the workflow - I can see it working perhaps if Ancestry.com is not part of the process.

The method I described just now in a reply to Rachael, will only work with manually imported media files. The ones automatically imported through Ancestry, will be put in the "general" folder and will need to be moved by hand. Having the media in subfolders does not affect the sync to Ancestry.

This media thing, and the fact that Ancestry's sources/citations are not really constructed in a uniform way, are the reason I never add anything from Ancestry. Whenever I have a source/citation or an image, I create my own citation by hand in FTM, download the media file, and attach it to whatever I want it to be attached to. I don't let Ancestry nor FTM do that for me, and keep full control.

12 hours ago, theKiwi said:

but there is no reference in the GEDCOM file to that M2317 media item - hence TNG imports the media but can't link it to anyone as there's no instruction in the GEDCOM file to do so.

I think first of all, @Rachael Williams needs to look if in FTM that image is attached to anything or anyone. FTM allows you to upload media files without attaching them, or to delete links to media files without removing unlinked media. It is possible that there are media files in her FTM tree that are simply not linked to anyone or anything.

Secondly, and I'm not sure if that will have an effect: when exporting a gedcom from FTM, it asks for which version you want to export. I always export a gedcom for FTM 2012. The reason is that the FTM 2012 gedcom exports media descriptions as well, while for some reason FTM 2019 does not (this has been reported to the developers and they have been looking into it for the past 3 years 🙄). Maybe, just maybe, the descriptions aren't the only difference? I never noticed anything else, but it might be worth trying.