erniej

Thanks to everyone for a lively and interesting discussion of what I originally thought would be a relatively simple process. When I mentioned two thumbs, i was picturing one on one machine and one on the other, then putting both onto the same machine and merging the files. And that was just a thought. This kind of shows you how far we have come, back in the 70's I had a makeshift genealogy program running on a DEC VAX and did this operation all of the time. The output looked like trash but the work was done. Now the output is gorgeous. Still prefer TMG over most other programs for everything I do.

Thanks have tried that but found that the transfer was not particularly great. Some things seemed to get lost. My next move is to use two thumbs in different drives and see what results I can get. Thanks for all of your suggestions and help. Ernie Jenkins I am currently looking at a program that purports to be able to do what I want. If so will come back and provide details. It seems to offer the "merge" blended screen when running into something it doesn't understand. If I were more organized I wouldnn't have to worry about such things but tend to do things as they come up and on what evere machine is around. Has made for some colossal messes of my own making.

Thanks for the input. I was wondering more about use of two computers between synchs with each having had some information added and perhaps to the same individual. Would or does it handle something like that? That's not very clear I guess. Let's try again. If I were to add something to individual #100 on my desktop and before the two units synch up I then made some changes to individual #100 on my lap top would it be able to handle that type of change. I hope that is a little clearer.

I have not been able to figure out a successful way to easily synchronize two machines so that I can input data to either machine at any time and have them synchronize the data to the latest and greatest. Is such a move possible. I have tried backup and restore from one machine to the other but it seems not to get all of the information and I am not sure why. As a wish list item: a utility that synchronizes in time order so that information entered at the earliest time is entered first then the later data either adds to or overwrites. This old head is just getting too full of computer.

It was my own stupidity, my brain confused flags and tags and kept trying to change the tags. Just plain old age stupid. Thanks for the help.

I have been trying to change the sex on a couple of instances from ? to either Female of Male. Using TMG 6.08 and not having a great deal of luck. Will try further experiements but would appreciate any suggestions

Thanks for the hint, but if memory serves, that selection is greyed out and inoperative when it happens. Hard to reproduce but will give it another look next time around. Again thanks. Ernie Jenkins

Has anyone experienced the following: While in edit mode for Sources the edit screen is displayed but "clicking" on an action produces no results and the screen can not be closed nor can the program without a hard slam the door shut down?