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Sorry about my terminology. What I meant by "hard shutdown/restart" was that instead of selecting Restart on my computer, I selected Shutdown and then I started it back up it. I was told once that doing this was better because it cleared more "stuff" from the computer, although, now that I think abo...

I'm not sure if that is the correct name because it is from memory and I can't seem to find it in the plugin store. Am I mistaken, or was it pulled down? I tried running it, but it gave me an error message saying it needed to be updated, so I deleted it and went to the Plugin Store to get an updated...

I did another hard shutdown/restart and then uninstalled FH again and restarted it as an administrator. The Help file still won't work properly. I searched Microsoft and went to their Get the Windows 10 May 2020 Update , and it seems all roads lead back to going through the computer's Windows Update...

Thanks everyone! The Copy File is still not working, but as Mike suspected, I have a LOT of media files that need to be re-linked after my final download from RM7 - which I am still working on. The backup is working fine now! I am backing it up to OneDrive\Backups\FamilyHistorian . The restoration o...

That fixed the backup challenge (Thank You!), but I'm still having a problem making a copy of the file through the Project Window. The purpose of making the copy is because I'm doing some testing of various plugins and want a backup in case I do something in my learning process. I guess the successf...

When attempting to do a backup of my file, I get a popup error box saying, "Unable to open zip file. Cannot perform backup". This has been happening every time I try to do a backup, since I first installed FH, and after doing a re-install. My FH file is kept on This PC > Documents > Family Historian...

I did reinstall FH earlier, but it did not fix the problem. I just uninstalled it again so I could reinstall it as an administrator, but I can't figure out how to do this, so I just reinstalled it again normally. I attempted to update my computer windows and it says I am not up to date, but it will ...

I didn't notice Nick's suggestion earlier of double clicking on the files and also checking if they are blocked. The fh file does the same weird thing, where it opens the tab when double clicked, but won't completely open the file, however, the fh_plugins file opens the file up completely and proper...

Per your recommendation, I checked the file path and it looks good (see below) and I also checked Mervyn's suggestion of the default application, and Microsoft HTML was selected. The help files for the following programs work fine: All Microsoft programs, Ancestral Sources, MyHeritage FTB, NCH WaveP...

Thanks for your Reply! Previously there were only 4 or 5 Record Types listed, but when I tried it after reading your reply, there were 7 Record Types listed and Source was one of them. I ran the plugin and it worked perfectly! Maybe I missed the others, thinking I was at the top of the list, when I ...

Thanks for your Reply! As for the Help not working, it happens regardless of whether I click the Help or press F1, and every item in the main menubar Help command works except the Family Historian Help, the Help with Current View and the Search Help. For each of them, a window opens in the taskbar s...

I am trying to run the Where Used Record Links plugin, looking for where records links are used with a source. This is per the Munro example project, given in the KB of Citing Sources: Method 1 and Method 2, where it worked just fine. When I attempt to run it using my own project, it asks to choose ...

Clicking on any Help buttons in the program does not work, which makes learning a bit more challenging.

Thanks for your insight, Mark.
You have given me much to think about, but I think I better understand the pros and cons of the different directions I might go. And now it is time to do a little pondering and playing.
Thanks!

Yes, all the sources came over and the citations were all attached. You asked, "If you have a specific example in mind and how you want to split it, I can advise the best option". My answer to that is a very vague "I don't know"! :? All I can say is that from what I have read, it seems I need to spl...

Thanks so much for you very thorough response! It is now all making much more sense. It was awfully nice to find all my sources nice and safe in the View > Citations to Source Record! And I must admit that the thousands of exclusions in the log files were rather upsetting. I feel much better - and m...

I guess I was not very clear in my description. I did the direct import and what is being interpreted (excuse my lack of proper terminology) is what I get on my end, is as what I described as the RM7 gedcom to gedcom - as in, the log gives me many errors and the citations come in some-what scrambled...

I am attempting to import a gedcom from RM with a lot of difficulty. I have tried exporting RM7 and RM8 with the same results. The first file, I imported as a gedcom. It imported without too much difficulty until I looked at the Log File. There were approximately 2000 exclusions and twice that many ...

I just discovered this post. I also am abandoning the RM ship in favor of FH. What a difference it is, albeit a little more challenging on the front end, but I'm having a great time learning about all it can do! I wrote a template in RM that could handle all my potential situations. It was basically...

Ahhhh. Yes, I was expecting it to fill in the citation fields. So what it does is to link the citation to anyone tied to the event. In this case it would be the mother, father, occupations of both and possibly family witnesses - and if I brought in any media, then that media would also be linked to ...

Here is a screenshot while the Auto Source Citation was turned on and one of the opened citation afterward.

Yes it says Auto-citaton Enabled. I'll post a screen-shot shortly.

I have been trying everything possible to get my ASC working. I have followed the Help section, videos and forum in an attempt to use this feature. I'm testing it by doing the following: 1 Creating a source from template using the button on the upper bar 2 Selecting the appropriate source (an Essent...

Thanks so much for your response! I can do without the Bibliography.

I am having a problem designing a custom source template that uses the Citation-specific tick box option in the Source Definition Editor. For some reason, I am only able to assign some of the fields to be citation specific. For the others, It returns an error message when I try to save it, that read...