Fact Sets: Edit? Merge? export to Print?

MarionE · Post by **MarionE** » 05 Jan 2010 11:33

Hi,

Have recently had a new HD fitted to my PC and am about to have my laptop reformatted, so have been busy sorting data from all sorts of files. I run FH on both PC and laptop and have FH data fiiles on both, on an external HD and 1, sometimes 2 pen drives. I have therfore ended up with lots of different versions of files but this is in hand as I am now storing all data on the PC and accessing on home network, which is working well.

However, I have also managed to create lots of Fact Sets, all of which I need as I have used them at various stages. Is there any way that I can open the fact sets to edit them, eg in Word or Excel? Or just print the lists so I can compare the names? Or can I merge them all together?

Any helpful suggestions would be much appreciated.

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 05 Jan 2010 11:58

There is nothing to stop you having all your fact sets loaded at once.

The simplest way to see what you have set up is to tick the show hidden button to show all the facts you have defined along with their parent fact sets.

You can then go through and delete the ones you don't want.

Although you could open the fhf files in a text editor I don't think I would help you much other than to merge them together.

Bilko · Post by **Bilko** » 05 Jan 2010 12:06

Hi Marion,

One simple solution would be to download and install Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 (just do a search on Google for MS synctoy). This is a small program which helps to keep the contents of different folders (usually on different machines) synchronised. You have to identify which folders are to be matched (using left & right folders ie this PC & that PC) and it compares the two then transfers any additional files and asks which file to keep of similar files.

I currently keep my master FH4 program and files on a 'Netbook' and have a (synchronised) copy on a networked hard-drive on another PC (which is also backed up elsewhere as a backup file).

I'm using Windows Vista and have the following complete folders synchronised :-
C:Family Historian Projects
C:FH Project backups
C:ProgramDataCalico Pie

These are matched to Folders called 'Copy of . . . ' on the other PC.

The main problem would be any files which have the same name but different contents. However, you could set up SyncToy on each PC and sync to the 'pen drives' too.

Hope this helps

Bilko

PS I found out about SyncToy on this forum through Jane

MarionE · Post by **MarionE** » 27 Jan 2010 20:07

Hi Jane & Bilko,

I think I may need to clarify what I mean when I say I have created lots of facts sets.

Because there are several thousand people on my full tree, with lots of facts and photographs;
Because my HD was fullish and RAM memory low (also upgraded);
Because I only work on subsections of tree at a time;
Because I haven't worked on some branches for four years;

I have ended up creating and changing the facts in the fact sets so that the same fact name in one ged file actually looks different from one in another ged file. [oops]

Yes, very disorganised......

And now I am trying to clear it all up therefore would like to see the text from the various facts to see which one I want to use as my default.

Does this make more sense?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 28 Jan 2010 07:04

Fact Sets are not saved by GEDCOM, so I assume you mean you have Facts, which should be the same, but you have given them different names?

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