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As you say Synctoy must be run manually which I do at the end of the day. I agree with you that the suspicions are on the media files, but given that the 'stopped working' error doesn't always appear it leaves some element of doubt in my mind. Re checking which thumbnail FH stops on in 'faulty' mode...

Thanks Tatewise, I posted my latest note and then saw that you had just posted one on this issue too! The message I've been getting is ' Family Historian has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. ' Re waiting a few minutes after a reboot one of the things I tried r...

Some progress on this issue. After booting up the computer this morning I started Family Historian. Following Tatewise's suggestion I made it open the Sample Project instead of my own project. All was well, no dreaded 'not working' message. Next, keeping FH open, I made FH close the Sample Project a...

Thanks Jane and Tatewise for your feedback on this issue. No, I don't have an NVIDEA graphcs card, its an ATI Radeon HD 700 Series which I've been using for the last two years. The 'not working' issue only arose about 4 weeks ago. Are there any known FH issues with this card? I did check out the 'Ho...

Like others have reported before I have been encountering (in the last 3-4 weeks) this particular problem. It happens just shortly (about 15 secs) after FH has been opened. Usually I find that on the second attempt (occasionally the 3rd attempt) at opening the program the problem goes away and FH wi...

tatewise said Further to my comments above, I have updated my own fhpopup.js script to include zoom buttons and scrollbars. It will soon be published as an extra feature of the Improve Website or CD DVD HTML Plugin. Excellent - I look forward to that! Thanks too for the tips about tweaking the late...

I have followed your suggestion and will stick with that in the meantime. However, I thought I'd see if the Lytebox developer had a new version of the script at Lytebox.com There is and I downloaded and replaced the FH version of lytebox.js and lytebox.css in the Data folder. I changed the auto resi...

Thanks for the note about the script, I wasn't aware of that. While the script has a part to play in size restriction from a test I did it seems its not the sole reason for the restriction of the image size display. When choosing the option 'No Maximum Size' the actual jpg file sizes saved to the Da...

There are FH options to control the maximum size of images when creating a CD/DVD. In all cases I want the image popup to be the size of the image that resides in FH's media folder. This is particularly important with certificates and census records where an image does often have to be displayed gre...

Thanks for mentioning that. I've looked at the function now and that does seem very useful. Rarely a week goes by where I don't find out something new about FH and just how customisable it is. I'm very impressed.

Thanks Peter. I have to confess that I had not seen the custom id field on the main multimedia object tab. I had only been looking at the four fields above the image in the Multimedia window - I really need to be more observant! I have tried out your idea and it seems to be doing the job, I just nee...

I keep all original documents/photos/etc in Secol sleeves in a series of binders. Each sleeve is numbered 1, 2, 3, etc., and I would like to add a new field (called 'Index' say) to multimedia records in FH5. The new field would just specify on which page the original of the multimedia item can be fo...

Many thanks for that - I've voted!

Thanks for spotting my omission in html code, it works fine now that I've corrected it and I've successfully used the alternative code you also set out. The <a href='video.wmv' anchor solution was not my invention. I wondered how Family Historian dealt with video when using the 'Gedcom or other down...

Video is an increasingly common way of recording family events via smartphones etc. Currently video has to be itemized separately on CD/DVD in the table of contents. Ideally it should appear in the individual summary report along with other media, such as photos for events, thereby maintaining an ag...

Success with the video! I decided that the best place was to include it in the first section which displays portraits for the individual plus the images associated with their events and attributes. I inserted the following html at the point at which I wanted the video to appear - <div class="fhimgwr...

The Firefox problem is resolved, it had a default application set for .wmv files that didn't work, I changed it to Windows Media Player and that problem is now gone! Thanks for confirming my thinking. It will probably be tomorrow or Monday before I have a chance to edit the html in the way you sugge...

Following your notes I've had some success and was able to add a .wmv file to multi-media. For the DVD I'm still using the 'Gedcom File or Other Download' option and doing this the video will play from the DVD but only if my default browser is Internet Explorer. I normally use Firefox as my default ...

Many thanks for your prompt and detailed response!  I'm glad there seems to be solutions and I will follow your guidance. Re the html, I'll try and implement that too but it would be helpful to the less technically inclined if this were not necessary. I think video should really be just as automatic...

I decided to add some short videos to my family history and have encountered two issues. Firstly, it seems that Family Historian 5 does not recognize .wmv files - Windows Media Audio/Video File. I have had to convert it to a .mpg file but so far am having some trouble doing that successfully. The co...

Thank you - that works perfectly. Thanks too for the link - I'll follow up on that. I've been working on and off on the CD creation project for the last month gradually refining the layout to how I want to see it published. Although I've been stuck a few times to achieve what I want it seems every t...

In step 4 of creating a CD (Add Items for Table of Contents) I want to add 'Family Tree' item in the Table of Contents. Currently I do this by adding a picture (a saved jpeg of the family tree in question). This works fine but rather than using a jpeg I'd like to add a PDF version of the family tree...

Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of Ancestral Sources - I'm only getting back into family history after a long gap. A quick skim at Ancestral Sources looks as if it could be good a time saver, I'll set some time aside to check it out.

Many thanks Tatewise for your last two replies, what you say is exactly what I'm now doing now and it works fine :) I'm also using sources as well linked to all the certificates in media. The certificates attribute was just an added extra so that I could easily see what I've got and not got on a cus...

Thanks Jane. I am using sources as well with links to the actual certificate records which are all viewable in media. The source section of the CD summary report shows all the certificates. My reason for inventing this additional attribute was just to have a neat way of showing on the family tree wh...