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Thanks Lorna! So easy! Val

i have fallen at the first hurdle. I was following David's advice to find unconnected sources, and when I got to Record Type Display Options, Sources was set to "always show", which was fine, but the Individual Record window was greyed out so I could go no further. Have I read the instruct...

Mike, now that I have heard all the difficulties I think I will opt for starting again with my whole tree, as I only separated the trees on Sunday. It sounds a lot easier!
with many thanks, Val

Thank you very much Mike and David that sounds really helpful. Thanks for the point about Notes etc, which I had not realised. There is so much on FH that I don't know about and I shall try to work through your suggestions tonight. Re the connections to the rest of my tree - this 200 is my father's ...

Hi there, I use FH 6.2.7, I have recently decided to go through my files and make sure each person is correctly labelled and sourced. To do this I made a complete copy file of one section to start on, about 200 files. I am using that file, but I am replacing some of my sources and now I would like t...

Good morning Mike and Mervyn and thank you so much for helping me. I went right through all your suggestions, but nothing worked until I got to the bottom of the list and went into safe mode, which did the trick and now it is all sorted and I am up to date!
Val

Thank you so much Mike and Mervyn, I shall try all the suggestions in the next day or two and let you know how I get on. Your help is much appreciated!
Val

Thank you tatewise for your quick response. Here are my details: I use Windows 10 and HP Pavilion computer. I bought V6 boxed to replace my V2 and many upgrades. I have no downloads on my computer for any V6 upgrades so I think I must just have V6. V6.2.5 was downloaded from an invitation on my FH p...

I have been using FH version 6 or 6.1 or 2, not sure because I now have no access. I use windows 10 and I have a newish HP computer. I tried to download V6.2.5 and it told me to abort and gave me error message 183. I did this at the weekend but now I find I cannot access FH at all. Can anyone help o...

Thank you Mike, I have now done the checks you suggested and deleted the unwanted copy. It all worked perfectly with your instructions. Yes, of course the warnings are VERY important, but because I am not always confident on my computer I was just a bit worried that something awful might happen!
Val

Hi there, this is a very simple request. I have a full copy of my main project file with 700 names, notes, sources, media photos etc, which I do not now need. I want to delete this copy but I need reassurance that the copy itself will be deleted but that my original project and all the attached medi...

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction both of you, it worked like a dream, and yes, I am fully backed up![smile]

I started using V2.1 several years ago and since then have bought or installed all the upgrades up to V4.1.3. I now want version 5 and would prefer to buy it anew rather than an upgrade. Will I have any problems installing it over V4, will doing this delete all the previous versions, and could any f...

Well you were right Tatewise, it was something to do with the picture being a face on another photograph. I solved the problem by deleting all media, unlinking Eileen from her parents and children then reinserting the photo I wanted and linking her up again. For some reason it would not work while s...

Hello Tatewise, I have tried what you suggest. When I click on the individual box on the family tree that has the wrong picture showing, the property box comes up. When I then click on Multimedia it shows only one photo (the one I want!!) which is preference 1 and jpeg. There are no flags. Strange??...

Thanks for trying anyway Chris. Much appreciated - Val

I clicked on 'save diagram' (not save diagram as ...) and a box came up for me to put a title, which I did. It is saved as a Chart accessible from the View menu.
Val

It is a descendants chart and it's saved within FH.
Val

Thanks for taking an interest in my problem Chris. The ALL tab just contains the picture that I want to insert.
Val

Thanks for that Chris, but I have done that and it didn't make any difference. In fact I removed all the other photos linked to that person so that there was only the one I wanted left. It is quite mysterious!
Val

I have produced a family tree with photographs and I want to change one of them. The photo I now want to use is already in the multimedia file. I cannot get them to change. I have even tried unlinking all the other photos for that person in the file, but still the unwanted one appears. I have tried ...

Thanks Tatewise, that was a very quick reply. I have checked the pages you suggest, and everything seems to be working as it should in FH.
I have now downloaded AS v2 so I am all organised now. Thanks again for your help.
Val

I have a new computer with Windows 7. I have FH up and running and am wondering about Gedcom Census and Ancestral Sources. I had them both on my old computer although I have not yet started using AS. Could I just load AS on my new computer and would I be able to use it to read all the census pages I...

I have a similar problem which has occurred since I moved my documents folder to my D drive. As far as I know I have changed the file paths correctly but it wont let me save, and I get an error message saying There was an error moving the previous backups: Object variable or with block variable not ...

Thanks Nick, that sounds great I shall certainly investigate further!
Val[smile]