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Thanks Mark - much appreciated

Andrew

Hi both I'd missed the subtlety of any debatable banter - all went whizzing over my head! To summarise - I still think there is a "feature" lurking in "Backup and Restore Family Historian via Windows v1.2.1". Everything ran as expected with Backup and Restore Family Historian v3.5. I've confirmed wi...

Before we get too carried away, the video referee has to intervene - did you select the "Discard any changes..." option when restoring using the Windows plugin? If you didn't, this is exactly the scenario I described above. The backup file is older so will not overwrite the newer file on the target...

OK, I've tested with both the old and new Plugins - and got different results! 1. Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings v3.5 2. Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings via Windows v1.2.1 The "via Windows" plugin didn't restore my Death fact witness roles. The other Plugin did. The steps ...

That would certainly seem to confirm that the Fact Set has a global System scope. So that leaves the question why the Backup & Restore via Windows plugin does not copy it across to the other PC. A stab in the dark, begs the question, are you sure the correct backup file is being copied to and resto...

Thanks Mike The way to differentiate Project local from System global Facts Sets is to use Tools > Fact Types... then click the Fact Sets... button and check the Scope of each Fact Set. Project Fact Sets always take precedence over System Fact Sets. Using "Death" event as an example, it's showing as...

In case it's relevant, the old PC was Windows 10. New one is Windows 11.

Andrew

Hi Mark Sorry I missed a couple of your questions: OK, we can rule that one out. What about my other question please - did you modify the standard Death fact or clone it to create a custom version that you then edited? Once I know exactly what you did, I can try to replicate it. No - it's the standa...

Hi Mike I'm not sure of the technical way to confirm "local" or "global", but I created a new Gedcom on the source PC and checked if the witness roles I'd created in my original Gedcom showed up. They did, so I'm assuming that means they are global and not limited to a particular Gedcom or project. ...

It was FH7 to Fh7 backup/restore. (v7.0.18)

Hi Great Plugin and very helpful for me to bring my FH customisations over to a new new PC. I think I may have discovered a small glitch and hope it is helpful. On my source PC I have defined various witness role types - eg "Informant and Present at death" and defined sentences to go with each role....

I've used Irfanview quite a bit and it's a brilliant program. However, when saving as PDF I don't think it runs OCR to make the PDF searchable. To make a searchable PDF I've used this free program: https://www.naps2.com/ ("Not another PDF scanner"). Whilst it is a scanner program (which I use in pre...

I've been receiving two copies for quite a while.

Having said that, I changed my email account for FHUG a week ago, and I have only received one copy this week (so far!)

I find Irfanview (free) the simplest way to extract images from a multi-page PDF https://www.irfanview.com/ (Download and install the application AND the plugins) Fire it up then OPTIONS - PROPERTIES/SETTINGS and click "PDF Options". Tick the the box to use the PDF plugin. Open your PDF (either righ...

Thanks Mike & Jane
Much appreciated, as ever!

Thanks Jane & Mike I'll have a look at importing my standalone GEDCOM into a project. I have some custom facts and quite a lot of diagram & report customisations. Will these still be there in the new project? If not, what is the best option to maintain these customisations in the new project? (eg th...

Hi I've just upgraded to V7. I have always used a stand-alone GEDCOM file rather than a FH project, and have set my GEDCOM as the default startup file. In V7 I am now seeing "Limited Functionality" for my GEDCOM file Limited functionality screenshot FH7.JPG In a separate topic ( https://www.fhug.org...

Thanks Mike for the quick reply an I'll raise a ticket to find my V6 key.

BTW I tried my v5 upgrade key and it came up with a 20% discount on V7.

Hi I'm on v6.2.7 and want to upgrade to v7 at https://store.family-historian.co.uk/product/family-historian-7-upgrade/ I must say the page feels somewhat confusing, but eventually I got myself logged in so the store could calculate my V6 discount. It needs my V6 product key, but despite me trying to...

Thanks Mike & Adrian for your input. I've raised ticket #328562 and hopefully, regardless for how FH handles report processing, the developers can have a look at it and decide what is possible and it's prioritisation. I know is always useful to have some understanding of potential challenges in work...

Hi Mike

Many thanks for the heads up. It would be great if FH report page break formatting is fixed in V7.

If it's not in the current list of fixes for V7 (assuming you will have sight of this?), how does this get raised as a problem needing to be fixed in a future release?

Regards

Andrew

Hi I've been meaning to raise this for a while, as I've seen this formatting problem in previous versions. Narrative reports (eg Ancestors): In the section which shows source images, I'm finding that the heading for an image and the actual image can get separated onto different pages. This happens a...

Thanks Mike - I thought that might be the case.

Andrew

Hi Small puzzle. On my focus window the sentence for my birth is: "Born: 10 December 1954 in 11 Norfolk Road, Mitcham, Surrey SW19 2EH" In narrative reports: "He was born on 10 December 1954 at 11 Norfolk Road, Mitcham, Surrey SW19 2EH" My sentence template is: {individual} was born {date} {=Combine...

Mike

That's an excellent solution - I'd not spotted the option to add a plugin to the tools menu.

Brilliant!

Thanks again

Andrew