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{{Languages|Media Management}}
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{{man warn|1=Work In Progress|2=This wikipage is an outline from a template being roughed in. Please don't edit. Instead, contribute suggestions on the Discussion page. <br /><br />This page is not planned be linked to a public page until about 10 Nov 2020. <br /><br />If this notice remains after that date, please feel welcome to remove this notice and consider the content 'fair game' for unlimited editing.}}== [[File:Gramps-media.png|left]]A [[Gramps_Glossary#media|Media references are not the ]] Object describes an external file that holds media data, such as a scanned page, audio recording or a video recording. Media Files ==files can also be in document formats, such as a text file (<code>[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT .txt]</code>), portable document file (<code>[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF .pdf]</code>), word processing document (<code>[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DOC .doc]</code>), a web page (<code>[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML .html]</code>, <code>[https://wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML .mthml]</code>), as well as any number of other file formats.
The “content” of the Media Object element is not the object itself but merely information about the object. The external file that contains the object is named by the xlink:href attribute.
== Media Objects in Gramps are not the actual Media Files ==
Gramps does not manage {{icon|medi}} Media files. It Instead, it is more similar to a [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata metadata] manager. That means that Media object actions of: moving to another Gallery tab, duplicating, deleting, or merging; will do nothing to the actual Media file. They simply rearrange the pointers to those files.
There are exceptions. The backup and restoring of backups includes the option to make file copies of Media objects up to 1 megabyte in size. And some Media related addons recognize paths with internet URLs and have the option to automatically download and archive copies to local storage. Gramps also manages thumbnails and downloaded map tiles.