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Re: [PAF] Multimedia files organization
Cheryl,
At 08:15 PM 3/1/73 -0500, you wrote:
> > 2) Everything in one directory
>
>Makes it easy to find.
>
> > Then after the directory, come up with a filename format that contains the
> > following elements:
> > 1) Individual or family (marriage identification)
> > a) RIN or MRIN (Dave and actually is what I am currently doing.
> However,
>Hmmmm.... so a typical path might go:
>
>C:\images\birthcertificates\thomas\MRIN4325ThomasSteve.tiff
>or
>C:\images\immigration\RIN4371\GetzdannerGustav1.tiff
>
>Or worse yet
>C:\paf5\data\THOMAS\images\birthcertificates\ThomasSteve\R8765Minn.tiff
>
>
>Yes, I'm being Devil's Advocate here, hoping to stir the rest of you up
>some. (g)
>
>Cheryl
I would urge caution in using the RIN/MRIN as a directory or filename
identifier. Especially using the versions 2.2/2.31 of PAF.
The RIN/MRIN numbers could be changed when deleting any of these numbers
and then following with a GED input and a MATCH/MERGE session. This could
make those RIN/MRINs unreliable as reference numbers. A suggestion might be
to use
the ID number that could be a unique number for that individual and is not
effected by the RIN/MRIN re-arrangement caused by GEDCOM and/or
MATCH/MERGE/DELETE operations.
Jack <jackchandler@worldnet.att.net>
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