Family Historian User Group

First, I have followed this exactly: Each such root folder holds the Public folder, and the .fh_data folder, which is prefixed with the Project name. It also holds the Family Historian Project File that has the Project name as its file name, and .fh_proj as its file extension. The content of this file is identical for each Project.

Finally, the .fh_data folder holds the .ged Gedcom file that contains your family history data, and a series of folders such as Books, Charts, Media, etc. Most importantly, the Media folder holds all your multimedia files.

To reiterate, it is crucial to maintain this folder & file structure, otherwise the Project will no longer be recognised by Family Historian.

Everything is where it is meant to be in the folder structure, Within data folder, all subfolders are there. What is not is the GED. There is a .tmp file with an undistinguishable name.

What was different?? FH7.09 was running slow, having problems closing windows, resulting in "program not responding" and needing CTL-ALT-DEL, twice. Obviously, the program was closed and then reopened. After the 2nd forced shutdown, it was missing GED. Any ideas?

You probably killed Family Historian while it was recording the gedcom file.

The simplest option will be to recover a previous snapshot using the Project Window, More Tasks , Manage Snapshots to recover a recent snapshot prior to the problem occurring.

You might also be able to rename the tmp file to the correct gedcom name, but it's likely to be incomplete.

I recognise your quotation from FHUG KB Understanding Projects which needs some minor updates for FH v7 but is still largely correct.

When FH is attempting to close it renames the .ged file as a .tmp file, creates a new .ged file, then deletes the .tmp file.
However, the problems you experienced when closing FH disrupted that process, leaving just the .tmp file.
So I suspect that changes made to your data in that last session may be lost, but possibly only since the last Auto-Save.

You could try using File Explorer to rename the .tmp file back to a .ged file with the Project filename.
That may recover most if not all of your data.

It should at least let you open the Project in FH and get to the Project Window.
If the data is unsatisfactory the only option is to use one of the File > Backup/Restore options.
Revert to Snapshot... will let you revert to a GEDCOM Snapshot Taken earlier.
Restore Backup... will let you restore from a Backup ZIP file created recently.

If any of the above is not clear then please ask again.
[Jane's and my Reply were posted simultaneously.]