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tatewise wrote: ↑

22 Jun 2023 19:31

So if your default Media directory is outside the Project folder you will have to copy each file one by one.
Then the Auto Repair Links button should still work to recover the links.

Thanks Mike. This is the one I'll need to do.

The selecting of a subset of people and exporting/merging into my current file really went quite well. By looking at a sorted 'updated' field on the old file, I was able to identify exactly the transactions I'd added after the last full back up so it was only necessary to export these. There was a b...

Thanks Lorna,

I'll do this over the next weekend.

Kind regards,

Robin

I had a major problem at the end of March where I could not access any of my FH data file. Luckily I had a full back up taken a couple of weeks prior to this problem occurring so have been using that since then. Now I've got access back to my end March files but I know there is two weeks work that w...

Same issue after trying to instal 7.7.1 as administrator. I just ignored the AS error messages to see what might happen and I then got a warning message from my security software (Norton 360) that something ancestral sources was doing had been blocked. I had the option of getting N360 to ignore the ...

Thanks - will try that tomorrow and post the result

Just downloaded and installed the latest version of AS but I get the following error message (followed by others if I keep clicking through). AS.jpg Running the file as administrator gets the same result. OS is Win 11; browser is chrome; security is Norton 360 Any ideas on how to overcome this? Than...

Thank you - that's it

Thanks Lorna and Mike,

The GoTo record icon approach certainly solves my problem.

Just for information I've file attached a screenshot of the query results showing a record that has been selected but with Focus and Key Diagram areas greyed out.

The strategy I've adopted over the years in terms of deleting (and then regretting deleting) large amounts of files in a directory is going to the directory in File Explorer and renaming the directory in question with a suffix zzz or similar, and then taking a note of the change. I've used the techn...

After I run a query, I can click on a person and the record window opens OK. But, focus and all chart options are greyed out.

Is there a way of getting those to work. (At the moment, I'm rather tediously entering the Record ID# into the 'Go To' field in the records list.)

Many thanks.

I do get a 1921 hint /very/ occasionally but most of the time they (a) are missed out (b) very obvious to find directly. What I am also noticing quite a lot now on FH is - I've got other records already entered in FH and sourced back to fmp (eg censuses). Sometimes they appear again in internet matc...

But you’ve found the surname using Freebmd! But from the original post I got the impression that a registration in the new name hadn't been found, and that a search in another quarter hadn't been tried: I suggest we wait for clarification and/or a response to our suggestions. This might be a bit le...

Thanks,

My objective is to tidy up my project file, particularly to merge any duplicate people/records that appear both in my main tree and dirty tree which I think is consistent with the advice in your last post.

Thanks Mike, At the moment not only are there duplicate marriages for husband and wife, as you rightly point out, but there are also two separate records for each of the spouses. My starting point has been to merge the records of just one individual in the main tree and dirty tree But what I'm findi...

I've been building a series of smallish (c50 records each) dirty trees as a prercursor to slot in DNA cousins into my main tree. All that is done and the dirty trees are now 'clean'. I'm now at a stage where I can see many individual records in both a dirty tree and my main tree that are definitely ...

Thanks Helen/Mike for the replies - much appreciated. The 'How Related' option fits my needs exactly, particularly as the shortcut, Ctrl-R, opens up the dialogue box to enter the details of the two people I'd be interested in. All I then had to do was tick the box to ensure that siblings and spouses...

I'm getting to grips with the video on the FH website "making branches stand out". I'd like to be able to do something similar but by identifying a person and a direct ancestor and for just that ancestral line to be highlighted automatically. If that's possible, would it be possible then to work wit...

As an experiment to see if your thought was correct or not, I copied and pasted the AS exe file back from C:\temp, where it ran successfully, to my desktop. I then tried to run it from there. The original error message came up again. Screenshot attached for your info. Screenshot 2022-12-02 120329.jpg

Thanks Nick, I'd already clicked the unblock box on the AS exe file and that did not work on its own. My default download is to my desktop - much easier to find for me :) It might not be the correct explanation as to the problem but it definitely is a solution to that error message that has worked t...

The exe file wouldn't run as I got a message to say it had been downloaded from the internet and was potentially unsafe. I had this experience with another exe file, again from a trusted source. This had never happened before There is a lot of information on the internet giving multiple ways to over...

Thanks all for the suggestions. I'll definitely try the Save Diagram route

I have a husband and wife with seven children and this is the start of the decendant chart. On the chart, the two eldest children are on the left of the parents and the rest are on the right. Between them is a /huge/ gap caused by the tree of the descendants from the marriage of the second child. It...

I regularly have to stop myself going 'but of course that's how it works' when I have that empathy with the developer and others don't. Well said, I've worked in a pc environment for decades and one of my distinction uni subjects was logic - so I'm neither short of generic pc know-how nor the abili...

... if only I had your knowledge