Family Historian User Group

my XP is NTFS and I assume that an Acer Factory pre installed Vista would be NTFS but I will check tomorrow. Also what does not help is that when they booted it from new and finished with the preload of Vista they just renamed the Administrator account instead of creating a new user with admin right...

Hi Jane I have done some more investigation at a distance. What happens is the following. I make up the query in XP and then email the .fhq file to the Vista user whi then installs it into FH. Then the query runs fine but the following happens: They cannot edit the query by adding a column item as w...

Have you run the Work with External File Links routine from the Tools menu?? This will show the pathing of all linked media and also if the media is not present it will show an icon with an X thru it. This will enable you to check the location that is in the link. You did not say whether the linking...

Hi Guys after an all nighter i finally got the query to work consistently. the solution still baffles me as it is seems like reverse logic, but it works and that is good enough for me. now to send the custom query files to the Vista enduser and then leave the building for a day and get my emails on ...

Is it possible to bypass the default of storing custom queries within the All user profile and set a choice of own choosing in a folder in a higher level in the system?? I successfully bypassed the standard location of project files away from the dreaded My Documents area and it works a treat as now...

Hi I am on XP but have issues when receiving a file from a Vista system. I set up a system of census flags first to get a visual check via diag for census entries done via gedcom census. The i introduced linking the census image file via standard multimedi function linking the file to the person rec...

I am an XP user but am mentoring someone with their family history and also using Fam Hist v4 on a Vista system. Firstly Vista ran into problems with the 'long' filename when importing a custom query which worked fine in XP. SO I renamed the files as short as possible and they then reimported them h...