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tatewise: The old HP Laptop has never had it's colour display changed. It is as downloaded from DVD F H V6. It was an on line down load for the new laptop. The two laptops show markedly different colour displays from the same colour data. See my previous posts. I have taken a colour photo of the two...

Lorna: No problems with any other programs. Only F H V6 since I have a new Acer Laptop. See my screen shots. Have done the recolouring of Focus & Property Box windows. Have a problem here also. Some parts of the display do not seem to have any facility to change their colour. eg. Navigation Bar, Uns...

Thanks to all who replied, most helpful. Apologies for the for the delay in replying. I have had other important items to do. I attempted to transfer the the Colour Scheme (mainly a blue display) from the old laptop using the Import/Export controls via a memory stick to the new laptop. It seemed OK,...

Thanks for your reply. Yes I have tried this. I only have a choice of two. 1.The default setting which brings me the almost monochrome display I would like to replace. 2. A high contrast version of 1. Adjer.

After I upgraded to FH V6 I have a mainly monochrome display. Previously I had the standard mainly blue display which I prefer. I seem to remember when installing V6 I had a choice of display colour. Using the "Preferences>Focus>Window>Colours" method is not easy, changing one item at a time. Is the...

Thanks for the replies from both. I feel a more confident about this download now so will go ahead. Thanks Adjer.

I have a new laptop & I wish to install F H V6. When I go on the Family Historian web site to do this I get a message saying, This site has been reported as unsafe Hosted by family-historian-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com Microsoft recommends you don't continue to this site. It has been reported to Micr...

Backup zip file in place. Will see if it works when I next do family history in the winter time. I am still pondering your file structure suggestions. At my age innovation & change is not what I need. Steady state is much easier. For that reason I will stick to F.H. V5 until I am stuck for something...

Tatewise: I have looked at Knowledge Base for info how to activate the Backup zip files in FH V5 but I am in a bit of a fog over this. 1.Does one zip file save info from all of my projects or do I have to have a file for each project? 2.On the preferences dialog there is a reference to; File name pr...

Tatewise: Problem solved thanks to you. The key to the file recovery was when you wrote: " try right-clicking the Gascoigne family tree.ged in the Gascoigne family tree.fh_data sub-folder and use Restore previous versions. If available, choose a version prior to the problem starting to see if that f...

F H File Structure Family Historian____ ! Craigs Family Tree Gascoigne family tree-------------------! Gascoigne's Medieval Ancestors ! Stokes family tree ! Tutorial Files ! ____________! ! Gascoigne family tree.fh_data Public Public FamilyReports Gascoigne family tree.fh_proj Gascoigne family tree....

Thanks Tatewise for your help. I have just looked at Knowledge Base page on Backup & Recovery. I don't think I have any Backup zip files as I have never been prompted by FH V5 to do this on file closure. So when I try to recover my corrupted project I get a dialog saying my project is neither zip no...

I have a corrupted FH file. Have tried to do a restore for it but small medium & full backup are "greyed out". Using Restore Backup takes me round in a circle & back to the initial dialog box saying: You cannot restore a restored file.
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Mike; I have loaded the plugin, & AS + Data entry are working properly now. I simply got hold of the wrong stick when your post said "run" I did (Windows+R) keys & of course it didn't work. Thanks again, Adjer.

Mike; I have not been able to write to OS registry as you suggested. I am not familiar with the text format for entry in the "run box". Can you please explain further. Thanks for your patience. Adjer. Nb. I put up two attachments to show that all my FH history projects have this problem.

Mike; I tried all your suggestions before my 1st post except for delete dat. file. You are correct about the rogue window in the task bar being the data file display not A S. However the hover display being small, was hard to read & it was corrupted. The only words present in a box in the bottom rig...

Mike; Thanks for the reply. I have tried deleting "Ancestral Sources Data Entry.dat" but it does not clear the problem. When I run the Data Entry Plugin it just reinstalls the deleted file & Ancestral Sources is in the Task Bar. Also tried deleting both plugin & the dat file together then reinstalle...

When I start Ancestral Sources via the Data Entry Plugin & click Run, the usual Birth, Marriage etc. dialog box does not deploy. A new window opens in the Task Bar & saying Ancestral Sources. The start box says Data Entry plugin is running but Ancestral Sources does not start up. See my attachment. ...

Mike Tate. I think you are correct about the notes held in OneNote. They are in a dotted box that does not allow the text contained inside to be edited. As you say, a picture of the text. I have not noted any errors in the transfer process (C & P) up to now but I will keep an eye on this. Regards Ad...

Bingo! Have found how to Copy & Paste from M S Edge browser to F H notes. 1. When on internet & text has been highlighted it is essential to place the cursor at the top of the highlight before L clicking copy. Any other position & the clipboard does not load & Paste in F H is "greyed out". 2. Copy &...

Adrian, I am using Microsoft's new browser Edge which has OneNote incorporated in it. (An excellent tool) I had hoped it would solve my problem. Paste to Word Pad works but not to Notepad. Adjer.

The copy & paste problem goes back a long way, in my case back to my Windows XP days. It's been discussed here before. As far as I know nothing was done about it unless it is dealt with in FH v6. Have a look at this. It's about Windows/FH clip-boards. 14380|Copy/Paste in the Property Box Tatewise ma...

Again thanks every one for your help. Yes I have tried right click for copy & paste (before I started this conversation) but as I say it is "greyed out". I recently switched browser from Firefox to Edge to get easy access to OneNote. The idea was to make internet clipping simpler. Perhaps I should m...

Thanks for your replies & help. Sorry to tell you I still cannot Copy & Paste text from Onenote into F.H. & have never been able too. No problem doing it to M S Word & other programs. I cannot do it from M S Word to F H either. Is it me or F H??? Mainly I need to transfer text clipped from the inter...

Have just started to collect family data in Onenote, but cannot find a way to install the edited items into Family Historian 5 without re typing it. The Copy & Paste in the Edit File don't appear to do anything.