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I followed this up with FH Support, and have clarified my memory problem. Thought I should put a clear final answer here for anyone who searches FHUG in the future. Support helped me understand how memory (RAM) was being used. I understand that when FH opens each image, it opens the image to its ful...

Thanks, discouraging, but good to know there is not much I can do about the issues I have been seeing that appear (thus far) to be likely memory related.
Thanks again for the answers!
Trent

Does anyone know, to deal with the memory limits, I assume that deleting media does not help, as they should just database links. I looked through other postings to FUG on memory. I have 64GB on my machine and seem to keep hitting memory problems when only 60% is used. I see that some have had benef...

Thanks! It is helpful to have my suspicion verified. I have started backing up 3x per day, and saving frequently. I have also had recent trouble with it showing an "X" on some media, that I know has not been moved, with either a can't find or Bad jpg error message. Suspicious this could also be memo...

Lorna, Thank you for the suggestion! Worked with strips. S o I saved the background image at 100 dpi vs 150 dpi, thinking it might be a file background image size limit. As usual, I could not import a different background image. I had to close FH, open the custom saved diagram, and rebuild the diagr...

Thanks. Yes, I had checked that. The "Print background" is marked.

Photoshop is about as standard as one can get. The only JPG option/choices I see are: 1) yes or no on "ICC Profile: sRBG IE61966-2.1 2) compression amount (which I have set to 5, resulting in a 2.9 MB file 3) and of course the number of pixels, which drives the file size 4) "Format Options" baseline...

Well, I tried, and partly worked. I couldn't find the Save Chart (did Save Diagram), but as I left it prompted me to save the chart. I came back in and the Original large chart came in perfectly. So to try to get the other cropped background image, I changed background to grey, left again and came b...

I am trying to create a nice Tree to get made into jigsaw puzzles for Christmas gifts. So I first went into a 4 generation Ancestor Chart for me, and added a 4 Gen Ancestor Chart for my wife, and arranged it above my tree, so it would not end up such a wide format. I moved them and then went into Di...

I need to do a bunch of queries that trace family lines back, That is, if I pick say "John Smith" or "Mary Smith", I want to limit output to all the Smith named ancestors (father smith, grandfather smith, great grandfather smith, etc.). I am guessing that I need to add one more constraint to the "An...

Its been a while since I checked back here. Thanks for all the thoughts. I have tried a number of approaches over the past month. And after hundreds of hours of trying a few approaches, this is where I have landed . . . - It is challenging to just consolidate places first, as I end up with several a...

Looks like I have more experimenting to do , a lot of thoughts here. Thanks! Interesting Notepad++ was mentioned . . . I just downloaded that yesterday. My current goal is exporting from Ancestor Query with added Birth Year and Surname, so I can separate the birth locations for each family line. Tha...

I have been through hundreds of Place merges, and I am seeing a pattern that makes me think I should being going a different direction in standardizing. At first, I thought it was just when I Geocode outside FH, but looks like the same problems inside FH. 1. Geocoding does NOT seem to like national ...

Sorry, would have been easier with a picture. (see below). It started with my problem, That sometimes people use commas in the Name field (e.g. James I, King of England). Unless there is a setting I am missing, when I export from a Query to a csv, I end up with extra commas, and when importing a csv...

All interesting. Customizing the Property box could help, but then not there in Focus Window and other key places. And I worry about things like < or { etc. I have tons of Place names where someone included these for some reason. So I have to merge <England> with England, etc. I agree it is a bit br...

I have seen that sometimes people include things like titles as part of names, so one can distinguish which say "William" it is. (e.g. ", Esq.", ", Rev." ",Capt." ", King of England", etc.) Obviously, those things could go in a Title field, or go at the beginning of the name. There are some disadvan...

Thanks again.
One last "Sovereign State" vs. "Country" question. In reading some postings, I get the sense that most people leave out "UK" after England, etc. I assume that is best practice and Geocodes well for the UK? or when I clean up, should I add UK?

Thanks again. That was the sense I was getting: 1) reduce (and clean up) number of versions of places by Merge in Place List 2) perhaps keep old Place names, but put new place name in the "Standardize . . " field 3) Find out how to turn off Geocoding in FH. 4) Geocode 5) figure out how to export th...

And to the challenge of problem Geocoding . . . I just found the "Find" feature on the Place List, which makes it easy to bring same places near each other. So I typed in Sudbury (for Sudbury, Massachusetts). And I get the following . . . Sudbury FUG example.JPG Interestingly (and VERY troubling ), ...

Sorry, I should have added this example for question 1: I found something with Google I thought would allow a check on Geocoding (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/?csw=1) But I tried the variants I have for Sudeley: Sudeley, Gloucester, England Sudeley, Gloucestershire, Eng...

Thanks so much to all of you!! It really helps to understand these things, to make sure my clean up does not need to be done twice. Apologies, a couple of other Location questions: 1) European question: About 40% of my family was chased around the Holy Roman Empire before heading to the colonies, t...

Thanks. I have tried to read the Help . . . and this video helped a lot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00VtjUTyNOc) But I do see things in existing Places that confuse me. Perhaps these examples will help clarify. Ex 1. I assume/hope all of these were intended to be the state of New York. Looking ...

Yes thanks, I don't know how to move it. I was about to post, below, with what is a certainly general question. I have specific examples below, but basically I am looking for the location of general instructions on how to clean up thousands of place names. I am sure there is a very simple place to g...

Thanks for confirming my suspicions (adjustable symbol size would really be a nice feature for many people I would guess.) And yes, if I can find the fields I should be able to export and use them. I do have work to do on Places. Still need to standardize and correct some. And when I go to the Work ...

I think this may be the right location to post. I want to plot births of my immigrant ancestors on both a current map of Europe and historic maps of 17th century Europe, especially the Holy Roman Empire. I am trying to put something together to help my kids understand the differences between our Hug...