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'''Starting with ===From GRAMPS version 3.1.x:'''===
'''Up GRAMPS has some predefined MIME types for some file types (e.g. ".JPG", ".BMP" or ".PDF") and uses the MIME definitions of your Windows System, to version 3select the external application accessing the media file.0.4:''This is not the usual way of the Windows Explorer where only the file' s extension defines the default application for the file (the method is usual called File Associations)!
GRAMPS has some predefined MIME types for some file types (e.g. ".JPG", ".BMP" or ".PDF") and uses the MIME definitions of your Windows System, to select the external application accessing the media file. This is not the usual way of the Windows Explorer where only the file's extension defines the default application for the file (the method is usual called File Associations)!
Comment (12.10.2008)Note: Up to release 3.0.1 for file and folder names standard ASCII letters are allowed only (e.g. no 'Ü', 'Ä', .... on a German Windows)! This issue is fixed in the 3.0.2 release (see [http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=2246])
→Opening media files: clarify
==Opening media files==
To open any media file GRAMPS uses the default application as defined for each file type inside MS Windows.
===GRAMPS version 3.0.4 and earlier==
If GRAMPS knows the MIME type of a special file this MIME type will be shown in the column "Type" of the table "Media". But it may be, that this MIME type is an unknown or incomplete MIME type of your system. In this case one has to define the correct MIME type. It’s possible but really not easy. So, a better way would be, to find an application where the MIME definition for file type of your choice will be defined as a MIME type or to focus onto the build-in file types of GRAMPS.
There is a general limitation for GRAMPS using MIME definitions: GRAMPS is not able to handle MIME definitions where the command "OPEN" is defined by using the method DDE. Because e.g. PaintShopPro in version 6.0.0 is using DDE, it works not as image viewer for GRAMPS.
==Archiving==
