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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 23, 2024, 14:00:31 »

OK I have a possible idea ...

I think it might be because I have spaces in the home directory for the GEDCOM file ("C:/Family History")

I just created a new family tree / GEDCOM using C:/Temp as the base directory with sub-directories
C:/Temp/Media
C:/Temp/Media/NoSpace
C:/Temp/Media/With Space

When I add a media file into each of those sub-directories the paths are stored correctly as relative paths.

When I created a second new tree/GEDCOM using C:/Temp 2 as the base directory with sub-directories
C:/Temp 2/Media
C:/Temp 2/Media/NoSpace
C:/Temp 2/Media/With Space
and media files in the sub-directories the paths are stored as absolute paths.

The only difference between the two trees/GEDCOM locations is the space in the directory name / path of the home directory of the GEDCOM file ... "C:/Temp" vs "C:/Temp 2". Spaces in the sub-directory name seem to be OK but not in the root/home directory.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 22, 2024, 20:31:18 »

Sorry Zurga

Either I am not understanding how relative file paths are supposed to work or I am doing something.

As mentioned in the initial post I have "force media paths to be relative" selected  but when I add a new file it always stores the file name in the GEDCOM as an absolute file path. My media files are in direct sub-directories of the home directory containing the GEDCOM file.

1 FILE C:/Family History/Documents/Cemetary Records/Dodd, Reginald Walter - Cremation_Burial.png <-- when first added

When I look in Media Manager the files are shown as absolute references. Media Manager shows "Relative path files are located from the GEDCOM file directory which is C:/Family History"

I can select a file and change it to be a relative reference. This then updates the GEDCOM and stores the file name as a relative path (i.e removing the drive:/{home directory} part of the absolute path).

1 FILE Documents/Cemetary Records/Dodd, Reginald Walter - Cremation_Burial.png  <-- after Media Manager change to relative

How do I get it to store the relative path when I first add the media file? Is that possible or do I have go into Media Manager and change use that to change absolute to relative paths after I first add the file?

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: Media files - relative path

« on: June 22, 2024, 09:43:54 »

Sorry slightly confused by this.

I currently have:

C:/FamilyHistory   <-- my gedcom file here
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents <-- no files
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/Census <-- census documents
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/ParishRecords <-- church documents for baptism, marriage, burial
C:/FamilyHistory/Documents/...  <-- subdirectory for each media type

Are you saying if I get rid of the "Documents" level so I have ...

C:/FamilyHistory   <-- my gedcom file here
C:/FamilyHistory/Census <-- census documents
... other subdirectories for document type

relative file paths will be stored when I add media files?

With approx 1200 media files already it will be quite a bit of work to move them all (yes I know the media manager tool can help) so I don't want to get it wrong and totally mess things up.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Re: v13 - high CPU usage?

« on: June 22, 2024, 09:33:39 »

Thanks

I picked jre21 because it was the recommended version as the current LTS version.

I'll try 'downgrading' to jre17 and see if  that helps reduce resource/cpu usage.

UPDATE: Just uninstalled 21 and installed 17. On initial run it seems much better. CPU load back down to less 2% and no heating issues / fan constantly running. Looks like jre17 is the way to go if anybody as similar issues with jre21.

Chris

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ENGLISH / Media files - relative path

« on: June 21, 2024, 20:46:20 »

How do you add a media file to source and have it store a relative path, as you recommend in the documentation so you can move / share files on usb drive etc?

I have set the "preferences>editing>medias>Force media paths to be relative rather than absolute" option. I have closed and re-open Ancestris but still when I add a new media files using the Gallery tab on a source in the Aries editor it always stores the absolute file path / file name. This happened in v12 and still happens in v13

Is there some other setting / option I should be enabling as well?

Chris

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ENGLISH / v13 - high CPU usage?

« on: June 21, 2024, 20:09:24 »

I have just updated to the latest release of v13 and updated my java from jre8 to jre21 (as required for v13).

Now when I run v13 I have v. high CPU usage with the fan running constantly.

Windows 10 task manager show Ancestris using 65-70% CPU and over 600Mb of memory with "very high" power usage. All other processes are showing less 2% usage. As soon as I close Ancestris everything drops back to normal and the fan stops.

Is anyone else noticing increase resource utilisation with the new version?