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Thanks Mike, I had not used the custom item attributes, and for the life of me could not find the adjustable fields size. All done now.

Running on v6.2, and I have read the many notes on creating research and to do lists. I have chosen to create a new tab in the property box for 'Research' and previously created a custom fact for Research note. BUT the data entry field displayed is only one line deep, and what I want to do is have i...

Thanks Mike - is there a way to show the alternate names in the records columns please? For example I have many people with the same single name, and whilst I can filter and hit the '+' mark to see the alternate names, it would be nice to have the alternate name in a column.

Thank you for your thoughts, and the interesting article on indexing Welsh names Mike. One comment you make - that I can see alternate names in the records filter - where please? I have used FH for many years and have checked the attributes that can be added to the filter, but cannot see alternate n...

What is people's convention on entering old Welsh names into FH? I am a long way back in my Welsh roots, and have a number of entries to make where there are multiple 'ap' in a name - e.g. Gwilim ap Gryffydd ap Dafydd ap Llewellyn. By default FH uses Llewellyn as the surname, but in fact people only...

Mike many thanks for all your help, all projects now cleared of large files and fully backed up. Not only do Calicoe Pie need to look at large file backup facilities, but if as you rightly say a full backup is only needed when changing media files etc, the save/backup window on closing must be chang...

Mike deleted all the huge files, they were tif files, and the media links were to the jpg versions, so have no idea why tif versions were even in the folder, also a zip file, which was only ever used in sending images to a friend through email, so never even in a project!!! Saved and backed up - ins...

Hi Mike moved out the thumbcache - backup started faster, then suddenly stopped, and FH went into Not Responding mode. Had to close through task manager. Checked the windows explorer, FH had re-created the thumbcache - deleted the new one, and replaced with the original. Have been checking and corre...

Have now fully checked the project media folder in windows - it has some huge tif and zip files, which do not exist in my master media reference files, used to store original files, nor in the tools/work with external links, nor in the media records list. I recognise the file names, but have no idea...

In the external file links there are 12 red crosses - 1 txt file, 1 htm file and 10 jpg files - one of these jpg's is a 4.3 mb map, others are register page copies, so typically 5kb.

Hi Jane

I do not have any video or sound files. I have the usual images, pdf files, etc, but I have not added any media since upgrading.

Rob

Further update - have checked the backup folder on F drive - new zip file header created, but will not open, file not recognised, so presumably FH has created the file name, but nothing in it?

Hi Mike tried amending default drive and/or folder name - no difference. Interestingly the 'adding files to backup' progress hangs at 134 records out of xxxx, whichever project it is I am backing up. When it reaches 134, the close/backup window disappears, and FH remains open. If I try to close FH u...

Hi Mike the default is set to F:, which I selected using the 'select' button. The drive is fully open, and is used by my laptop regularly during the day, and is exactly the same as I used for V4. The other settings I have are as per attached screen shot. I notice in my backup file that when I upgrad...

I have just upgraded to V6 from V4. When I closed V4, the backup or skip window appeared (as in V6), and when I chose backup, it created the zip file almost instantly and closed FH. In V6, the backup never completes, it tells me it is adding file xx of xxx, and then just hangs. I am backing up to ex...