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PeWu / topola-viewer

Topola Genealogy Viewer – interactive genealogy visualization
https://pewu.github.io/topola-viewer
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OPEN > Open file > GEDCOM > ERROR #63

Open Francisco6x opened 3 years ago

Francisco6x commented 3 years ago

MyHeritage web.zip MyHeritage pc.zip

OPEN > Open file > GEDCOM > ERROR 1) GEDCOM generated by MyHeritage website, displays photos. MyHeritage web.zip 2) GEDCOM generated by MyHeritage Family Tree Builder app, does NOT display photos. MyHeritage pc.zip Why? Can you help me?

PeWu commented 3 years ago

Hi Francisco,

Thanks for showing the examples.

The GEDCOM file generated by the MyHeritage website contains links to photos like this: https://sites-cf.mhcache.com/... It looks like some kind of web cache. If the photo is in this cache then it will be displayed in Topola Viewer.

The GEDCOM from the desktop app instead contains references to photos on your disk, so they will not be displayed. However, there is a way to show these photos (it's not a documented feature):

  1. Put the photos in the same folder as the GEDCOM file
  2. When opening the file in Topola Viewer, instead of just selecting the GEDCOM file, select the all files in the folder (e.g. by pressing CTRL+A).

This will open the GEDCOM file and also load photos.

A nice feature for the future would be opening zip files like the one you attached :-)

Francisco6x commented 3 years ago

Hi PeWu, thank you very much for your attention.

Your alternative "2. When opening the file in Topola Viewer, instead of just selecting the GEDCOM file, select the all files in the folder (e.g. by pressing CTRL+A)." it is very good. Works to perfection.

I like to host GEDCOM.ged on Google Drive, or another website, for the "Load from URL" option. Following your alternative, to put GEDCOM.ged in the photos folder, I wouldn't need to inform the path of each photo. Topola Viewer would just use the name of the photo (without the path). Is this possible?