I entered a lot of information in Family Search on my own family and I downloaded that same information to my tree. Now I have a ton of webtags I want to get rid of. Is there a way to remove them all at once? Why do I want to? Because FS (and Ancestry) are notorious for changing the name and location of files that break the links. I have also made sure that I have the webtags as a source without the http:// connection. Thanks for your help.
Not possible within the RM application. Could be done with a text editor on a GEDCOM export which you would import to a new file but that loses other stuff. Most effective is a SQLite 3 query directly on the database but that requires a skillset you may have to learn.
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as @TomH explained Sqlite would be smoothest way to do that provided you some database skills and understand the potential risk involved - and whatever you choose make sure you have multiple backups you can startover if needed.
Kevin
Thank you Tom and Kevin for your response. I was afraid it might involve some database manipulation Iām not inclined to attempt. Last time I built a database, Microsoft Access was the premium software for that. So I will likely do it manually when I come across them. Cheers!
FWIW ā the query itself it probably one of the simplest delete query as you do not even need a where clause. Assuming the database tools clean up the phantoms you would be good to go. The risk is mostly related to user error ā (such as wrong table).
Kevin