HowTo: Gramps: Clean up your Media Paths

If you did my tutorial Apple-Q HowTo: Gramps: Consolidating Media Files then you will find that once the media files are consolidated within a Media Folder they still maintain their original folder structure as a Relative Path (ie they are several folders deep). My demonstration Family Tree Database has only seven media files, imagine if you had hundreds. Yes they are now in a single location
but the folder structure is very messy. It can be cleaned up but it is not an easy task and is very time
consuming. I had this trouble with a PAF GEDCOM file and I found it much easier to open it within a text editor and perform bulk Find/Replaces. Gramps has a Tool to do this once your files are linked to its
database.
Here is how...

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