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Help .......... saving WW1 images

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mgnv

mgnv Report 6 Nov 2009 04:25

Sylvia - however they are on the site you're saving from is how you get to save them, so a jpg on Ancestry will get saved as a jpg, and a Canadian census pdf at LAC will get saved as a pdf, and a Canadian attestation gif will get saved as a gif, etc.

I must admit I don't understand why, when you right-click on the body of the image you want to save, you only get properties - I've never seen that happen. I normally get a Save As option, and a little save as dialog box opens up with the default name, say 123456a.gif already there - which I would change to JohnSmith.gif and maybe navigate thru the folders displayed there so I could put it with the Smith's instead of the Jones's.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 6 Nov 2009 04:29

Hi mgnv

thanks for that


so I guess I have to live with the jpgs then??




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

mgnv

mgnv Report 6 Nov 2009 07:12

I guess so - I'd never really thought abt it. I just checked on my grandad, and I've got 26 WW1 service images + 9 prewar service images + 3 medal card images. I'd just stuck them all in the same folder, and kept the folder with his family's census images, but now I come to think of it, I suppose there must be some sort of PC photo album thingy that I could stick them in. Honestly, it's not a high priority for me, but I will keep an eye out for such a thing. All my certs are scanned too, but they're pdfs.

Now you've got them on your PC, you ought to think abt backing them up. I've got an external hard drive (well 2 actually) that I back this sort of stuff on, but a cheaper way is to buy the cheapest memory stick you can get, plug it into a USB port, and copy your 11 files onto that. Having said that, probably even cheaper is to email them to your daughter, and tell her not to lose them.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 6 Nov 2009 07:16

mgnv

I do have an external hard drive, a memory stick ........ and even a cd which I started backing up onto some years ago.


the problem is remembering to keep doing the back up!!

I now have the war records as hard copy, on my hard drive ..... as well as saved on ancestry.



it's taken sooooooooo long to get them!



I actually prefer to have hard copy .... I guess I'm still a dinosaur in some ways!




sylvia

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

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