Remove preferred image for whole file?

[cyfinnie]

Hi,
I use Family TreeMaker to sync my Ancestry Family Tree. I exported a GEDCOM from FTM and imported into Reunion. I've been doing this for years. I did this last month and this time every person has a preferred image set. But most of these "images" are documents - at least 85% of people in this 18,000+ file lived before photography was commonplace. Is there a way to globally turn off preferred images? Or to globally say that all Multimedia should be treated as a document? Or assign everyone in the file a blank image?

I'm looking for a way to stop looking at newspaper articles and census pages as the preferred image.

Thanks for your help and Happy New Year!

[theKiwi]

I use Family TreeMaker to sync my Ancestry Family Tree. I exported a GEDCOM from FTM and imported into Reunion. I've been doing this for years. I did this last month and this time every person has a preferred image set. But most of these "images" are documents - at least 85% of people in this 18,000+ file lived before photography was commonplace. Is there a way to globally turn off preferred images? Or to globally say that all Multimedia should be treated as a document? Or assign everyone in the file a blank image?

The easiest way I can think of to fix this would be to edit the GEDCOM file to remove this designation of Preferred image out of it and then do a new import into another empty file.

Can you post part of a GEDCOM file that has this information showing, and someone will be able to tell you how to easily make this edit with something like BBEdit.

Roger

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

Put images of newspaper articles and census pages in the multimedia section of a source instead of for an individual. There there is no chance it will be a preferred image for an individual if you do this.