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johnmorrisoniom said: As an aside to this. I always edit my media in a separate location to my projects, before copying them into a project. If you work this way with picassa, you will not get the problem with the thumbnails in your project (which also increase the size of what's in the folders). T...

Thank you very much, Tatewise, that works a treat.

Just one small point, the relevant code is on line 86 in my version which is v1.7

I am using Version 3.9.16.37 for Mac. Having carried out a little experimentation it appears that this version of Picasa will always create a folder called '.picasaoringinals' within the folder holding the image being edited. (I renamed the original folder but Picasa just created a new folder.) This...

I wonder if some kind person who is familiar with Lua programming could advise me how I could amend Jane's excellent plugin. I would like the search to exclude any folders called '.picasaoriginals' but don't know what code to use or where to put it!

janefrances said: Mine came out a bit dark around the edges, and have had to lighten them up. Looks like I will have to go back and do some of them again, any tips for the best results? How did you invert the colours? I used Picasa (free for Mac and PC). When you are in Edit mode click on the 4th T...

Also looks good if you invert the colours:

According to the Help file Query Windows are not re-used but doesn't say that only one is permitted. So, if a Query Window is opened by a plugin (I was using the 'Check for Unlinked Media' plugin) not only can the window not be locked (as expected) but the menu option to open a Query Window just bri...

I have added a note to the page for this plugin on the Family Historian site asking if it is possible to amend the plugin to exclude the folders created by Picasa. At the moment all the Picasa thumbnails show up as unlinked media, which completely swamps the actual unlinked media. Would anyone else ...

You can just add it as an additional name field. I type it as, for example:

Dovid // b. Hirsch

so that the patronymic doesn't appear as a surname. I use  'b.' to stand for bar, bat or ben, the context showing the correct interpretation.

Jane said:
A quick way to find them at the moment is to search in the Knowledge base for youtube.

I have also added my Videos and Calico Pie's new videos to a playlist on my Channel.

Thanks, Jane. I see Calico Pie and Tatewise also have channels so I have subscribed to all of them.

Great videos!

I would find it helpful if all the available videos wherever they are located were listed with links in one place on the FHUG web site.

Have you checked out the new videos at

http://www.family-historian.co.uk/support/videos

These explain the options very well.

Graham,

I am very grateful. Thanks very much. Yes, I think I will buy the CD as it will provide a broader picture of the RE's activities.

Gerry

ganstey said: Hi Gerry, I'm not sure what you mean by Civil Affairs. Each volume is over 500 pages long, and there are two volumes covering WW2. As an example of the type of coverage given, here is an extract that refers to my father's unit: ... I'm afraid you're going to have to give me something ...

ganstey said: Just received a copy of this CD. It contains the entire Corps history up to 1980 split into 11 volumes. Each volume comes as a PDF containing scanned pages from the printed version. Some of the scans are a bit wonky, and the typeface looks like it was produced on a mechanical typewrit...

tatewise said:
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Please report them via the Broken Downloads? option.

I did but I didn't get a response so wasn't sure that the message had got through.

The links to the latest downloads seem to be faulty:

 CENtaR: The GEDCOM Census Table Report (8)
 Vivify: The GEDCOM Birth Date Estimator (6)

Has anyone managed to find the correct links?

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Mike, Here are the results for my setup (Win XP running under Parallels on an iMac): http://www.fhug.org.uk/images/uploads/screenshot_3.png 2nd run with 1.5 MG (1 MG on first run). Slightly faster on the first test and the same on the second. It seems to be sensitive to background tasks as the firs...

tatewise said: It is difficult to be certain what the gain might be, especially since your iMac/Parallels set-up is so different from the others. If you are going to go through the hassle of adding RAM why not go for more? A quick Google search suggests it does not have to be Apple RAM, which looks...

Mike, Thanks for all your hard work on this study, as well, of course, in writing the programs and plugins in the first place. Although I run FH on an iMac with an emulator (Parallels), the main impact seems to be the amount of memory rather than the processor speed. Would that be a fair conclusion?...

tatewise said:
Gerry & John ~ ...

How much RAM do you each have on your PC?

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1 GB

Mike,

Here are the results for my setup (Win XP running under Parallels on an iMac):

tatewise said:
The age statistics are all under Age@ so as the Help & Advice mentions they are derived from the AgeAt() function and do NOT exist as Fact Date fields.
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Thanks, Mike. That showed up the problems nicely.

Unfortunately a simple query isn't showing up the culprits as they must be buried somewhere in the Facts/Events.

tatewise said: Gerry ~ Nothing in those statistics looks particularly unusual. There are rather more Flags than I tend to use, but that should not matter much. Would it be interesting if I created a temporary Plugin designed to report the run-time of the Plugin FH API interface versus purely Plugin...