Family Historian User Group

Thanks jane. I'll look at that tomorrow and send to Calico Pie as you suggest.
Dagwood

In the last week or so I have returned to my project using V5.0.9 not having touched it for a couple of months while we moved house. Data entry seems ok but when I open any diagram for, it would appear, any person I notice the diagram has a slight wobble to start with and then sections of it start t...

It's good to know there are folks out there like Nick, Jane, and Mike who are willing to put so much time into developing features for use with FH, unpaid and alongside their day jobs. Sometimes our impatience has to be tempered by considering how much we really need the next feature against the eff...

Thanks for all the replies. Obviously it is not quite as easy as I had hoped ie I was not missing a known method of flagging Threads and Posts and from what David says it has been raised before and would need some work on it if at all possible. The Notification button I had overlooked before CVG's p...

As my senior moments approach the point where they are almost as frequent as the non senior moments I would like to be able to flag posts or threads of particular or future interest. I guess I am not alone when I read a thread or post which offers a potential solution to an existing, or suddenly app...

Thanks to you both for taking the trouble to look up this Gerrard for me. I guess I mistook his initial J for an F....Specsavers here I come! George died in 1904 and we think we have all others accounted for. There is no WW1 record or subsequent death for Fred'k so perhaps he emigrated; a distinct p...

Can anyone assist in finding F G Gerrard living in 6 Western Road, Romford in 1911 as I cannot find a census page but can see him on a census summary when using Ancestry. He may turn out not to be the Frederick Gerrard I am looking for,born Hackney approx 1884, but missing census pages in Ancestry c...

Many thanks Richard. They were of course brothers in arms so I shall put them in are research tree as brothers along with my Uncle and add anyone I find who was killed, or even mentioned , in the pages that describe the horrors that these young men of the Royal Fusiliers went through in those last d...

I have been researching the final days of my Uncle's life in the Battle of Passchendale during WW1. As with so many Other Ranks there is no mention of his name in the Battalion war diary but the officers who died that day are mentioned . I'd like to add an event in his life to cover the day he died ...

tatewise said:
That is a great feature of Windows 7 & 8, but only works if there has been a System Backup or System Restore Point created between loading and deleting the photos.

And that of course is something I hadn't even started to do!

Useful to know Jane, thanks for that....I hope I never have to use it though! I wonder if that would be worth downloading now onto the same USB stick rather than worry about it when there is a disc problem?
Dagwood

I spent the weekend up in Surrey seeing my youngest Grandson who is over briefly with his parents from Gran Canaria. Also got some great photos with them alongside Great Nan. Many other irreplaceable pics were downloaded to PC on our return to Cornwall when I realised that the empty folder I had jus...

Thanks Mike , I'll try it later,
Dagwood
Update: Worked perfectly, thanks Mike

I'm grateful to ejp for confirming the path is correct as shown in the Knowledge Base. As I mentioned in an earlier post I'm not sure my netbooks Program structure is as it should be. I will however go back to the netbook and try and sort that out. Can I raise one other issue with the Kinsfolk Censu...

That was it Mike!Thanks for the guidance on Hidden files etc. I'm using XP on the netbook and whilst the path was not quite as shown the info given enabled me to display hidden files and folders and change the Read Only box. I've been back to the Query and can now change the column widths without th...

tatewise said: Dagwood ~ What happens if you try to change the original Custom Query? Does it still produce the warning message? If so, please check the Properties as advised above. Ok, perhaps the problem starts way back. To start, when you and Jane referred to the read only box being ticked I was...

That's very interesting. I've just started using Synctoy to back up both PC and netbook to an Ext HDD so will look at using that for the applications between PC and netbook. Many thanks for the suggestion,
Dagwood

Edit: Just got pipped by last two posts I'll answer your one seperately Mike.

tatewise said: If this is true, then the same problem will occur if Dagwood tries to change his copied Kinsfolk To Do- adj cols Query. Perhaps Dagwood could confirm this. Back on the netbook and I'm able to change the column widths on the amended version without the message popping up now. Strange!...

tatewise said: If this is true, then the same problem will occur if Dagwood tries to change his copied Kinsfolk To Do- adj cols Query. Perhaps Dagwood could confirm this. As soon as I get home and back on my netbook I'll let you know. Thanks to John and yourself for your suggestions. Dagwood Ps Is ...

I've checked both PC and netbook and the Read Only box is unticked in both. However your the answers you and Jane gave have led me to a solution. I had never saved the Query after running it so on both mc/s I altered the column widths and saved as Kinsfolk To Do- adj cols. I then closed it and reope...

Hi Jane , the Read Only box is unticked. Unless I misunderstood your point about saving as a new file the problem is as I open the query and , mainly when using a netbook but on my PC also, adjust the column width. It's not so much the repeated need to adjust them but having to cancel this message e...

tatewise said: I suspect the annoying message is caused by your use of Dropbox, or SkyDrive, or some similar auto-synch/backup utility, which is temporarily locking the Custom Query File in C:ProgramDataCalico PieFamily Historian. I have the same problem with almost any Query change but have not in...

Well not so much a problem but a niggle! Whenever I use this excellent Custom Query I find it necessary to alter the column widths. The niggle is that each change is followed by an annoying little box which tells me it cannot be saved which I have to click on OK to cancel. It drives me up the wall! ...

Thanks for the link Jane. I'll inquire about their having a copy of card.

Going through the contents of my father's wallet I came a cross a number of In Memoriam cards . Two were for his parents ,the third for the crew and passengers of the R101 which was lost on it's maiden flight to India on Sunday 5th October 1930. I have no idea why he would carry this until his death...