Family Historian User Group

Wayne, I believe that you have hit upon one of the truly unique facilities of TMG that no other family history software has yet been able to replicate (unless anyone knows different), i.e. the apparent ability to wrap individual/distinct family data files within a single database/project structure. ...

Alan, To follow up on Jane's suggestion and having done a bit more research, any software which undertakes live scanning can interfere and corrupt file saves, so you need to identify which programs, if any, you are running which constantly monitor file changes. Chief among these are third party Viru...

William, Oops! I missed the second element of your query, but can't really add to the contributions already made. My approach is to use 'Work with Places' first and achieve consistency there, 'ignoring' any duplication that I might introduce in the address field. Having achieved the desired result, ...

William, Dealt with dispassionately, my view would be that, as Swordale is a village, the Address in your example is [Property Number] 25, and the Place is Swordale, ....., just as Swordale House is an address in the village of Swordale. From the point of view of a Family Historian datafile, or any ...

Alan, I believe you've definitely come up with an original problem - I've searched around extensively and this is not a behaviour anyone else seems to have experienced/reported. The first thing I would try to rule out is the possibility of a software installation problem/glitch by fully uninstalling...

Andrea, I'll post a 'full' reply and list of options for your return from holiday. Basically there are two: 1. A Windows Virtual Machine 2. Use one of the 'Wine' options to 'convert' individual Windows software applications to run directly on the Mac without a Windows installation. To try these out ...

Ray,

Have you checked out the recently updated guidance here: http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id ... t_from_tmg

Mervyn

Bob, 1. Have you tried comparing the file structure of your 'main' project with one of the others that do work/load correctly? It's possible that something 'got lost' when you were moving the files to their new location. 2. Are you able to open the gedcom file in your 'main project' in Family Histor...

Alan, Can we just clarify the situation: When you say your Gedcom file is 'corrupted' do you mean it is unreadable, or is it that some/all of the information you've entered is lost? 1. A gedcom file is, of course, a plain text file and I agree with 'jimlad68' that there is no clear reason why an ant...

Have just started testing a few Plugins that I haven't used previously; and have come across an interesting 'error': With the above Plugin newly installed from the Store; and on running "Check Installed Plugins Against the Store" I am advised that a newer version is available. After updating, the re...

Hmmm! Bet you're really looking forward to all the Windows 8.1 Updates and Windows 9. Not to mention OS X Yosemite and Parallels 10. Having recently moved away from Parallels to VirtualBox on my Macs I can empathise with steady step by step process you're taking. - My reason for switching : Parallel...

I'm guessing you won't be able to leave the mysterious behaviour alone. Try searching "Detect Corrupted Images" on Google and you might find some help. This link might be useful: http://www.thomasbarker.co.uk/2011/05/29/corrupt-jpeg-checkertool-for-finding-corrupt-jpeg-image-files/ Edit: This might ...

David, I'm not really clear what you are trying to do with you plugin/script. It may be just the terminology of course, fuelled by your understandable frustration at all of the weird and apparently inconsistent crashes. I'm not a programmer, but there seems to be a mix-up in your opening description...

Mike, Good point. I didn't link the appearance of FoxPro to the TMG import facility - never needed to use it; and I forgot about the addition of Books as a significant new feature in Version 5. Should have re-read 'what changed' instead of relying on (fading) memory. Looks like I'm back to the drawi...

Colin,

Thanks. It would be good to know if this is the likely 'problem', whether or not there is a solution.

Mervyn

Valkrider and any other Crossover/WINE users, I'm attempting to put together a step-by-step guide to installing Family Historian using the Wineskin front-end programme (and possibly Winebottler), which are both somewhat different to the commercial Crossover product, but produce a similar end result,...

David, Interesting. It's certainly likely that, if your script referenced a non-existant location and required some action to be performed in relation to that location, then it would terminate the script with an error. If your script is operating as a FH plug-in rather than running independently it ...

Jean,

A warm welcome. Try this:

Select your source and in the Family Historian Menu Bar, click 'View' and then Record Links...

Mervyn

David, The very best of luck if you go the full Windows/Program reinstall route. Stay cheerful and look on the bright side: At least you'll have a clean system at the end of the process. Mervyn P.S. It makes me so grateful that I mainly use Virtualbox/Virtual Windows Systems! Just have to copy the s...

David, Not FH related, but you might want to check this report of a similar problem "An improperly typed Lua script can crash Foldit" - http://fold.it/portal/node/996624 Reading that report suggests that there is a bug in Lua 5.1 that fails to trap certain typing errors - In the case reported substi...

David, Don't want to butt in but you might want to make a note of the following as a reasonable source of some key dll's required to run certain programs - http://www.portablefreeware.com/resources.php The other reasonably quick way for installed programs would have been to uninstall/reinstall the V...

Jim, Cross platform and free: You could have a look at Ancestris. It's an open source beta product and a Java app that works on Windows, Mac and Linux: en.ancestris.org. It has an interface that you might be very familiar with! The database is gedcom, so no export and can be read by any text process...

I agree with everything Mike says: The only way of knowing would be to test both applications ability to exchange data with sample files. The only thing I can add to previous comments is that you can check out the current list of GEDitCOM extensions at - http://www.geditcom.com/extensions/index.html...

Jim, I have a copy of GEDitCOM II (updated) 2 days ago, and yes, it's the nearest equivalent on Mac OS X to Family Historian, and unlike all other Mac programs it saves to a fully compliant Gedcom 'database': It has: - the same Gedcom export features as Family Historian for exchanging data. - Simila...

Craig, Whilst I don't and wouldn't backup my whole computer to any cloud service without at least one 'local' backup, access to 1Tb of One Drive Cloud storage, plus 5 constantly up to date copies of the full Microsoft Office packages (on both Windows and Mac) for around £80 per annum is tempting, wh...