After working thru my 'study' of what happens to sources with TreeShare, I wondered whether an image gets downloaded multiple times when attaching a census source to individuals of a family.
In my previous post,
TreeShare and Sources, I looked at the 1900 census for Paul Emory Mentzer. In that census, Paul was listed as a 4 year old son of Charles Mentzer.
Prior to accepting any Ancestry hints for the 1900 census for Charles Mentzer, I had one source attached to that event.
After accepting the hint on the Ancestry side, TreeShare now indicates that there are 2 sources on Ancestry and 1 source on RootsMagic.
Thus, TreeShare prompts me to add a source to RootsMagic.
Now, I have 2 sources attached to the event: my original source and the newly downloaded Ancestry source.
When I look at the Media tab for the Ancestry source, it is linking to a file named 4120168_00936.jpg [Note the following information from the windows that are partially obscured: Individual's name starts with CHARL and the Source name begins with 1900 United Sta.]
If I go back and look at the citation for the 1900 census attached to Paul Emory Mentzer (Charles' son), the file name for the attached media is the same.
Hoping to be able to identify this generically named image in the media gallery, I clicked on the properties button so that I could add a caption to the image. [I did this on the citation attached to Paul Mentzer's event.]
If only one image is being downloaded, then that caption should also appear on the citation for Charles Mentzer's event. When I checked the citation for Charles Mentzer, there was no caption tied to the image.
Out of curiosity, I checked the media gallery to see what was happening with these images. The Media Gallery contained THREE versions of the image: two without the caption and one with the caption. [Note: This particular source has only been downloaded for 2 individuals: Charles and Paul Mentzer.]
Captioning images is a skill that I am developing. Thus, most of my images are not currently captioned. However, those that are captioned have not been duplicated in the Media Gallery.
Since the image appeared THREE times in the Media Gallery, I was curious as to how many copies of the same image I have on my hard drive. I discovered TWO copies of this image in the generic media folder.
Each of these images are almost 2 GB in size (1,905 KB). There are 4 people in this particular family. If I accept the hint from the Ancestry side and am fortunate enough to have Ancestry pick up the entire family, I'm guessing that I would only have 1 copy of the image downloaded. Working from the RootsMagic side, I have not experienced the ability to attach one hint to an entire family. [Note: I am not using the family version of the event since I want to be able to put in individual notes.] Thus, I am getting one copy of the image for each family member.
So my quandary continues!
I want (need) to accept Ancestry's shaky leaf hints
- to allow my tree to appear in searches of public member trees
- to generate more 'Member Connections'
- to help find sources I haven't already used
I don't want to use TreeShare to pull those hints into RootsMagic
- image files are generically named
- image files can be duplicated
- source citations are less detailed
SO -- I need to learn how to work with the images to give them specific names and prevent the duplication! And, I need to decide to either accept Ancestry citations OR quit using TreeShare.
I have come to the same conclusions as you. You certainly outlined my thought processes with your reasoning. Thank you!! Im not going to use Treeshare much I dont think, except to compare changes, add them manually, and dismiss them.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kyla! I hadn't considered accepting the hints on Ancestry and just dismissing them in RootsMagic.
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