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From: "Jim Byram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Default Exhibits Folder
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:22:49 -0400
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John Harris wrote:

> In File/Preferences/Options/Current Project Options/Advanced there is a
> default Exhibits folder and it has me confused. I thought that this folder
> was used to backup & restore external images, but Dennis wrote that this
> folder is not used by TMG to backup or restore external images. Also I
> noticed that all external images record the full path to the root of the
> hard drive - in the exhibits log/properties.
>
> So, the question is: How is this pointer (default exhibits folder) used?
>
> The only place I can find it used is in "Save to External Image" where it
> us
> used as the path name to the image being saved.

When you add a new exhibt, this is the default path for the Open dialog
looking for the new exhibit to add.

Dennis is correct. External exhibits are backed up and restored based on the
path for each exhibit stored in the exhibits table.

The preferences exhibits path is a convenience to find the shortest path to
the exhibit to be added (typically in that folder or in a subfolder of that
folder); however, you can store external exhibits wherever you choose to
store them.

Jim

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