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=Structure of the User Directory =
{{man note|Idea for new section that provides an overview of the files and folders/directories found in the user directory|see https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_XML#See_also Auxiliary XML files in Gramps <br> https://gramps.discourse.group/t/auxiliary-xml-format-documentation/2800 <br> https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Backup_Omissions <br> https://gramps.discourse.group/t/recovering-tree-from-hex-named-folder/6478/3 }}
In general the following Gramps user files and folders can be found in the "User Directory"
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{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto"
|+ Gramps User Directory
|-
! Gramps
! folder name
|-
| Top level folder
|-
| ?
|-
| ?
|}
-->
Gramps - Top level folder
Subfolders:
* CSS - Theme files used by the narrative website report
* grampsXX - example: "gramps52"
gramps.ini - file holding Gramps configuration settings ( Gramps key file )
'*.ini - for each view or bottom or sidebar the configuration of each will be stored in assorted *.ini files
** plugins - location of user installed addons for Gramps either manually or via the addon manager
* grampsdb - location of your family tree files each in subfolders using random seven (7) alpha/digit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal Hexidecimal] folder name
** abcdef12 - each SQLite based family tree folder may contain the following files
database.txt - plain text file that contains what format the data file is in eg: sqlite / bsddb ...
meta_data.db - ?
name.txt - name of the family tree
sqlite.db - family tree data file
** abcdef34 - each legacy BSDDB based family tree folder may contain the following files 31 files!
(list example)
** abcdef56 - other addon database backend family tree folders may contain other files as required please consult that addon
* thumb - folder contains media thumbnails for use by the Gramps programs and various reports and addons
** large - versions of the media thumbnails
** normal - versions of the media thumbnails
recent-files-gramps.xml - file
report_options.xml - file
GrampsXX.txt - file containing any error reported by Gramps eg Gramps52
==Backup Omissions==
{{Template: Backup Omissions}}
moved to my sandbox