Peter Tarkkonen

Thank You Michael! Very impressive reply, lt gives a lot to think about. Looks like there is no simple answer or several pros and cons in all. Sentence (using memo) could make it perfect from output point of view, but in entering data mode data would look different. Also many tags should be edited. If I would use irrecular date and enter "the latest 1771" in data field and 1771 is sort field. What do I lose then? In reports age calculation will not work with after/before anyway, right? Peter

Thank You Terry, this option is worth of thinking. Peter

How you colleques document source for Exhibits? I have many photos received from relatives or scanned from books. Mostly I have those books as a Source allready and just wish to add them as citation Thank you! Peter

John, thank you not giving up! I was not aware that also link to source can be made. I tested it. Works with Journal reports aswell with SecondSite. Thank you once again! Peter

John, thank you for this idea. Need to try. That would cover "legal" part of it. Direct citation link to source would be perfect. Maybe one day..... Peter

Thank you Jim, I tought I was right not finding "direct" way to do this. In most cases I have just one primary photo of a person and then direct citation link would be easy. For "Group Photos" I do exactly as you told. It is also very easy to get all people in photo listed thru wittnesses field. Works perfect especially with Second Site. Peter

JAK, just for a reference. Same level PC with 4 G. With 26.000 individuals takes about 45-50 sec. Peter

Bill, I had same kind of problems earlier. In my case I had some corrupted data in event detail field. Peter (Finland) PS. Used to live in Pacific Palisades at mid 80's. Hopefully it is still as beautifull as it used to be. Lucky you! Sorry, but it was "Citation detail field". Peter

Bill, I had same kind of problems earlier. In my case I had some corrupted data in event detail field. Peter (Finland) PS. Used to live in Pacific Palisades at mid 80's. Hopefully it is still as beautifull as it used to be. Lucky you!

Virginia, just wanna let you know. After this discussion I turned OFF "Link project explorer to other windows". And have NOT seen this "out of sync" problem anymore. (100's of people and tags added) So, surely this "out of sync" issue has something to do with this linking. I will not turn it on again, but it is a feature I liked to use. Peter

I just moved to new PC with Windows 7 Installed TMG via backup file. However, path to files is different as before. Two questions raised Q1. Four exhibits (I only use external) can not be found by backup in new installation. All four are original map.jpg's on which I have added some highlighters. New file names are like map_hl(tmg).jpg's and those can be found and seems to work ok. Bacause path was changed, somehow TMG is searching originals from original path. I just can't find how to fix those paths. More important, by short look, I could not find any reporting problems, only warming after backup. How can I fix this issue ie. fix those original paths? Q2. When I make backup from new PC, size of backup file is 3,7 M less (total about 20M) than the file which I imported. Those missing 4 pic explains only 1,1 M. I am worried here that in installation something went wrong. Is this normal that same data, same backup, same compression, has so big difference or should I reinstall? Number of people is 24.000 so it is impossible to check by hand. Peter

Hi Peter, As a layperson, I can think of several things that might effect file size (for example, the "repeat" files). Assuming you still have TMG loaded on your old computer, considered opening the project on both machines. You can compare detailed statistics about both instances of the project at File > Project Summary. Those with more technical knowledge may have other suggestions. In a pinch, hope the above helps. --GJ Gene, thank you. Helped a lot. Data seems to match, only size of backup file is different. Probably does not matter. Peter

Neil, I can find the files, no problem. They are in same folder as other exhibits. However, TMG link to these 4 files is "the old one" (=path is not the same as iI had in old PC). Validation does not report any problems. Btw validation fixed all other exhibit paths except these 4. What have I done. - added map.jpg to exhibit folder - make an exhibit in TMG - Add highlights to the map.jpg. A new file is generated by TMG called map_hl(tmg).jpg and exhibit link is pointing to that new file. (In my understanding, TMG does not need original map.jpg at all anymore) - But now, backup tries to find those originals ie. map.jpg and because there is no link from TMG (at least I can't find it) to this original, I can't fix the path. Now I am worried about backup warning that these files can't be copied. Peter

Once and a while I find tags/events which do not use default sentence ie. sentence field have "something" in it. I dont know where did those come from, but only can assume that those go back as far as inporting database from UFT some years back. I tried filter "any event; sentence" or "any event; sentence(default)", but did not get good results. Is there a way to report or search/filter these tags/events so I could fix them? Peter

Terry, thank you again! Both "List of..." and "Project Explorer" give close to the same results. But not exact. I can only find few instances and I cant believe I allready found them all by just coinsidence. The few I found are a bit strange I need to investigate more deeply into this. There is something to do with sentences with different languages. I had this before and it was a TMG bug. Example: It does not show any custom sentence in Tag Entry screen. Then I open Sentence window, P1 sentence is wrong, I click Role:P2, Sentence is correct. Then click Role:P1 and now P1 sentence is correct aswell. Click OK to exit. If I go back to Sentence window, P1 sentence is wrong again. In any case output in Journals and SecondSite seems to come out correct. I suppose this is not worth of more time. I will keep an eye on this in order to get a pattern. Peter

I get an error while adding a person thru "adding person wndow" f.ex when adding a spouse. "File 'laplacearr.prg' does not exist. 74 FRMADDPERSON.MVALIDATEPLACES". After I answer "interrupt" I get a window which ask about new Place Style. No will keep places style as it was. However, new Place Style was added. I have made earlier a Place Style called "Suomi" and have used it years. However, I edited Output Template and some labels some time ago and since then this error has shown up. Defaul Data Set style is "Suomi" What can cause this and what should I do? Peter

Thank you Jim, I will do so. Peter

I had living flag "?" for one person. I merged into this individual an other person who had death tag. After merge, Optimize and Validate Living flag was still "?" Only after editing death flag, living flag was changed to "N" Not a big deal, but just wanted u to know Peter

Mike, fully agree. I was more refering to validation. Just tought it is one of those points which could be checked. Probably this case does not happen too often and nobody told it before. Now they can fix it if there is a point big enought Peter

I try to import a gedcom file as 2nd data set. 1. How do I get Gedcom "Birth"-tag imported and assigned as "Syntymä"-tag (=translation)? And other tags aswell? 2. How to I assign Place style correct? 3. How do I control place import? Background 1. All individuals are imported ok, but how can I assign std tag types but "renamed" ones. I have translated Birth -> Syntymä, however Gedcom tag is still "BIRT". (In import Step 7. Tag Types options, only Birth-tag is available but not Syntymä-tag.) After import, all people have Birth tag, but not Syntymä tag as I want. I was afraid to copy any individuals cause dont want to create "birth" tag types to set n:o 1. 2. Also difficulties with default Data set style fo places. My default place style is set to Suomi. However, after import each tag has place as "US standard place style". 3. After import all place info is in State-field. OK, this is easy to fix put better if all place fiélds would go closer to final field. Thank you in advance And thanks to Terry Reigel. His artilces about Projects and Data sets http://tmg.reigelridge.com/projects-datasets.htm everyone should read. Btw, all other artilces are worth of gold too))) Peter

Terry/Jim, I made test and imported one new data set and then copied few people. 1. Birth tags etc. where "translated" automatically to finnish ie. in data set 2 those were "Birth" but after copy "Syntymä". All other tags the same. As I said, I only have changed the name of the tag and did not greate new tags 2. Place style for new places was "US standard" after this process. Even my default is "Suomi" and changed references as Jim told. Not a big issue cause every place have to be checked anyway. see point 3. 3. Places are more complicated. Those have to be found one by one in order to avoid dublicates. Difficulty is to find new locations from long "Place Master list" A great help here would be same kind of serial number as sources have ie. last ones on the list are the new ones. And also a merge function would help, again the same as sources have Summary: It is a quick way to add people. However, one needs to be very carefull especially with places. Peter

Terry, thank you! This just mean that there is a bit more hand work to be done. But now I know what can be done and what not. And my tags are translations only, not new tags. Sorry for confusion. Peter

Marianne, I get the same all the time (=while adding people after about every 10). Quick help is to close TMG and start again. I have assumed it is because I have "Project explorer linked to other windows". And somehow this link is not allways updated. If I select person from Project explorer, correct person comes up in individual window. But sometimes not wise versa ie. f.ex. selecting father from individual window does not select that father in Project explorer. And if I now click "add tag", it goes to wrong person. So the person I have open, is not the one tag is added to. I use Project exploror with birth day order. Peter Btw. Sort of the same happens somehow in main place list. The one I open and edit is not updated but the previous place on the list ????

While adding people with copy person feature, PC crashed. When I tried to start TMG again, it did not start at all but I got error message "Alias "FILE_N" is not found". From error message there was help available, and it was instructed to edit desk top icon. (ie. start + file) Got TMG running, but cant open my project, however sample project will start. I keep geting error message above plus many others. Backup file is from last night, but did quite a bit work today. Anything I could try? Peter

Jan, sounds like an option to think about. What I did: I added backup button to toolbar. I also have there reindex, optimize and validate. I have to run those constantly ie. about after every hour. So backup is not big additional thing. Peter