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I've just bought a new pc , added FH7 to it as well as AS. I uploaded my gedcom for my project and added the media.
When I exit FH7 the back up is nothing like what I had before, it used to be 9 GB but now its only backing 10 files and is about 10 KB-where am I going wrong? The tree itself has 31592 people and 10834 families which it says at the bottom?

That is because your Project consists of a lot more than a GEDCOM file and Media files.
The technique you have used is not the recommended method for migrating from an old PC to a new PC.
See FHUG Knowledge Base Family Historian Copy and Migration Guide and Ancestral Sources Migration Guide.

If anything is not clear then please ask.

Thought so Mike! However, I've reinstalled FH7 as the report said but it only gives the sample project-I can use the Tools on that but surely there is no point doing that for the sample project; if I delete that project, I can't use the tools at all?

At last have followed the instructions properly I think Reloaded FH7 and logged in to it, restored the settings and the media files which are on the portable L drive now.
Seems OK now but the tree is not showing the surnames in alphabetical order?

Further to this my project doesn't appear in the project window?

Now found way to get to alphabetical order.

As no reply and finding this whole thing too complicated, I'm going to abandon FH and use Legacy instead.

You only posted yesterday so you've not left very long for an answer and I can't actually see a question? Your last question was "Seems OK now but the tree is not showing the surnames in alphabetical order?" and then you followed that up with "Now found way to get to alphabetical order".

Anyway bye bye, hope all goes well with Legacy.

NickWalker wrote: ↑

11 Apr 2022 10:42

You only posted yesterday so you've not left very long for an answer and I can't actually see a question? Your last question was "Seems OK now but the tree is not showing the surnames in alphabetical order?" and then you followed that up with "Now found way to get to alphabetical order".

Anyway bye bye, hope all goes well with Legacy.

My thoughts too. Curious post, as this person already had V7 and has made nearly 650 posts to the Forums!

Have changed my mind and returned to FH7 for time being as my project seems to have appeared in the project window, maybe shutting down and restarting it found itself? The sample project isn't there though?

When you go to File > Project Window, what location shows underneath the list of projects? Is it the location you expect?

It is possible that the sample project and your project are in different directories.

I don't suppose it matters whether I have the sample project?