Lisa,
You might be able to fix this by editing at the gedcom level - if
tediously. In principle, you would export to a gedcom (giving it a
precautionary different name), open that in any text editor which
handles the file size and has "Search and Replace", then locate each
duplicate and delete it. This is time consuming because you have to
visit each occurrence of a photograph, but you go directly to each one
and don't miss any. This also assumes that the problem is not
something exotic, but if it is, looking at the gedcom should give
information which higher grade help can use to better advise you.
I used the Sample family file from Legacy 6, as that has graphics,
exported it as a gedcom and right clicked it so I could force Wordpad to
open it. I've copied a fragment below. The numbers denote the levels
of each line and the next group, in capitals, is a Tag. I used
OBJE(space) for my search, but if you know your photos are in only one
or two folders, the best choice would be the file folder name and enough
of the path to ensure uniqueness, e.g. "iles\Legacy\Pictures\". Looking
at the fragment below, the last line of the preceding record has a
level of 2 and a CAUS (cause) tag. The next record starts at the same
level and is a SOURce one. Depending from it at level 3 is an OBJEct
one, with a further subordinate description on level 4 that its FORM is
a jpg file and the FILE is named C:\Program Files\Legacy\Pictures\sample
- 1957 Oct 09 letter to Virginia Larsen from Mabel Hilton.jpg. The rest
of the data for this Source record is on the lines below until the level
pops back up to level 2 or above, in this case at the beginning of the
next Source record.
Your gedcom must have some duplication which repeats the file
designation, probably with some or possibly all of the surrounding
lines. Hopefully, the fix will be obvious or you will be able to post a
snippet which will get you better advice - perhaps even some magic from
someone expert with regular expressions. Feel free to contact me
offline and I'll help if I can, but this computer is in deep trouble
with hardware problems so I may go dark quite soon..
kb
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2 CAUS Heart disease
2 SOUR @S23@
3 PAGE page 2
3 QUAY 3
3 OBJE
4 FORM jpg
4 FILE C:\Program Files\Legacy\Pictures\sample - 1957 Oct 09 letter to
Virginia Larsen from Mabel Hilton.jpg
4 TITL Letter
4 NOTE Letter from Mabel Hilton to Virginia Larsen. You may trans
5 CONC cribe the contents of the letter here if desired.
4 _DATE 9 Oct 1957
4 _SCBK Y
4 _PRIM Y
4 _TYPE PHOTO
2 SOUR @S25@
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