
Gramps does not import Media Files into its database – this would make it very large and slow and also risk losing you media files if the database crashes. Instead it uses Media Object records that stores the location (path) of the file.
Sometimes when I am attaching media to a person’s record I forget or do not realise that the Media Object already exists – so I create another Media Object that uses the same media file. This can cause problems – if information (like Notes, References, Citations etc) is attached to one of the Media Objects this information will not appear for a person linked to the other Media Object. Multiply this by 21,000 persons in my family tree and things could quickly become very bad – information that you know you entered seems to go missing so you enter a slightly different version – gets worse.
This can be fixed fairly easily by one of 2 methods: Automatic or Manual (transferring all of the linked information to one of the copies and deleting the other).
Here is how ...
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