Ancestry.com media not syncing

[KimberlyGreen]

@TontGinSF Kevin gave a great compare & contrast. (I’m biased though because I think Kevin’s a pretty good dude.)

If you’re interested, I posted a fairly detailed explainer on how I organize and also use file meta-data for my media.

Organizing Media and Data

If you’re interested, here’s how I organize my media. Since one of your goals is to make people easier to locate, my method might give you some ideas. First, I store media by macroscopic categories. Within those categories, there may be sub-categories. For example, in the Census folders, there are further subs for year. See screen cap: [01] For the media themselves, I name them by what the source is. Using Census as an example again, the typical filename goes from largest to smallest compo…

Something Kevin didn’t touch on is that eventually you will have media that is outside of / independant of Ancestry. Storing that media in an orderly, logical way is super-helpful.

I presently have 16.8 gigabytes of media consisting of 2,546 individual items. A notable portion of those are not on Ancestry, but are attached to my RootsMagic instance.