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From: Tanya Johnson <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Finding internal exhibits
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 18:29:16 -0400
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Thank you Judith. I'm glad to know what can be done (and how to do it).
I am used to John's TMG Utility and will use it for these images. Mine
are a good quality, with few exceptions.

Tanya

J Lipmanson wrote:

> Tanya:
>
> I am not wild about Pathwiz's user interface, but it works; and, once
> you get used to it it's fine.
>
> After you select your directory and project you have two choices: Filter
> Actions and Project Wide Options. The latter will give you a nice short
> report of internal vs. external exhibits -- a count. Filter Actions is
> the one you want. In the first column select Internal Images; in the
> second select the Exibit Type -- e.g., image, video, text, and in the
> third, the exhibit group of Person or Other. I found all mine with
> Person, but you may want to also try Other and the options that come up
> when you do. That's all I had to choose to get my internal exhibits to
> show up.
>
> Unfortunately, these options are mutually exclusive and you may want to
> do several runs to make sure you haven't missed any.
>
> John's response introduced me to a function in TMG Utility that was new
> to me. It sounds good but it's not what I would use for my problem. The
> internal exhibits I had were from my import of my project from FTM, when
> I first started using TMG. In FTM all my exhibits were internal, mostly
> photographs. These internals were brought into TMG as thumbnails, and
> the quality was poor. I wouldn't then try to convert them to externals
> with any program because there is no way to improve a degraded
> thumbnail; the data just aren't there. Once in TMG I proceeded to
> replace those internals with high quality external images that could be
> read on screen or printed out. I needed Pathwiz to find those pesky
> thumbnails that were still hiding.
>
> Judith
>
> Tanya Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>> Thank you Judith. That seems to be the only way. I haven't yet used
>> Pathwiz but will download it. Do you remember the filter?? Or will it
>> be self evident?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Tanya
>>
>>
>
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