RM9 and treeshare

[bossgen]

I don’t know if this should be a feature request or not, but can’t hurt to ask (see bottom of this topic)

After working with RM9 and treeshare using Ancestry, I’ve decided I do NOT like the way that Ancestry downloads sources/media - the names are meaningless and therefore difficult if not impossible to know what the document is by the name of the document.

I am in the process of renaming / moving / fixing broken links of the sources/media downloaded to my PC to match my naming and saving process. (I also don’t like that Ancestry saves census information as a residence fact - but there is a work around in RM9 to edit the fact and change to census - so I can live with that.) But I am going back to the manual method to download from Ancestry and attach to RM.

I like the updating of fact information between the two databases, but I do NOT want to download/upload sources/media to/from Ancestry/R9. I see nothing in the settings to turn this process off. When I am in the ‘changes’ screen in RM9 and update a fact I can choose not to include the sources - this is good. However, if I want to add a fact, the source/media is included automatically. I know that I can view the changes and then edit in either RM or Ancestry as needed.

I would like (feature request) to NOT include sources/media when adding a fact (in either direction) automatically.

[KimberlyGreen]

Your desires line up with mine, and the Feature request that I put in about a week ago.

You might find the answer provided in that thread useful:

Feature request: Initial TreeSync option - disable media download

I would like to have the option, for initial TreeSync download, to disable media downloads, so that I can (a) avoid the duplication of media I already store and (b) avoid having to manually delete the media download after-the-fact. Acceptance criteria: Boolean toggle is provided to enable / disable media download on the initial TreeSync login / setup screen. If disabled, the application will download all person ‘facts’, etc but will not download media such as image gallery content, source ima…

Summary: the RM folks apparently don’t have the ability at present to control the media downloading because of the Ancestry interface (API).

[bossgen]

Thank you. I didn’t do a search of topics, so I missed yours. As I am using a small database that I had on ancestry but not on RM, I am using this to learn RM9 and treesharing. I can see that for my large databases there is no way I can do treesharing because of all the (wasted) time needed to rename the media, verify that I don’t already have the media/source and then if not move to appropriate folder.

[KimberlyGreen]

Yep, I think the media download ability is useful for some basic users, but for us orderly folks it’s a nightmare.

You might find this topic interesting too:

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…

[bossgen]

I saw that - thank you. Much of what is described, I do.

[JP1]

@KimberlyGreen

Summary: the RM folks apparently don’t have the ability at present to control the media downloading because of the Ancestry interface (API).

But surely they could just throw the media away rather than storing it if the user was to set the appropriate setting. Seems a very valid request to me, even if it wastes some bandwidth. I guess there could also be another option to not upload any media.