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can anyone explain VFI and Optimize, what exactly are they doing and how often should you do these procedures? thanks Kristina

When i try and disable the soundex under other info box i get message: array dimensions invalid 3FRMOIBSETUP.CMDDISABLE.CLICK If i click ignore i get the following: Variable 'LNDSID' is not found. 11 FRMOIBSETUP.CMDDISABLE.CLICK any ideas? only option is abort Thanks Kristina

thanks Michael, just wanted to be sure it wasnt something on my side, Thanks Kristina

Is it possible to color tags? I see in the preferences witness to tags can be colored, but what about Principals? I want to color code all my Census so with a quick look i can see which census' i have. I saw in preferences i can make primary tags Bold or have an asterick but wanted to know if i can color code tags and how to go about doing that. Thanks Kristina

Thanks Terry! Now we just have to find out when V8 is coming out.

Thanks, Michael's work around works best as we can get now, but would definitely want it on the wishlist-would like to do exactly as Excalibur stated each census a different color so at quick glance i can see what is there and what is missing as far as census. How do we make sure it is recognized as something on our wishlist? Has it been sent to the powers that be? or do they monitor the forums? i know zero about programming but would think this should be an easy add and extremely valuable to most. thanks for everyone's input Kristina

Thanks Teresa,That is a wishlist feature i am guessing- i was so excited bc that is exactly what i wanted and have been going through the master tag type trying to find the option to change the background and font! Thank you also Michael i will try your suggestion and see if that works the way i want, Kristina

Ok i need the for dummy's help here, i had a blank for the living flag on many people, i tried to use TMG utility but found that only works if you have a ?, i had a blank so i tried various things to get a flag for people and some how i have managed to make my own living flag set to N , i am fairly sure i am still living, so i need the best way to clear all and start over from scratch, to get all my living flags in order, Thanks Kristina

yes that is what happened it was an import from another program that caused me to get blanks, i havent bothered with it bc the filters and conditions baffle me, and some how i can not comprehend it to set my flags appropriately. i export my file to my website and rootsweb and want to make sure no living people are displayed, which i think i have successfully done, but i always end up with some ancestors in the 1700's who are also blocked as living, so i tried John's utility, (of course contributing)which i guess worked but then i saw the other post about how some imports ended up with a blank value for the living flag, checked and sure enough i had blanks, for ancestors who died 200 years ago. so i tried a few conditions and ended making my own flag set to Living =N?? ok have done as suggested, still unclear as to why the living flag is never Y, i read the topics Michael suggested, my understanding is during an export only Living =N is searched for, is that correct? so anything else is assumed living (flag with ? value)and will be blocked out. Is it best to leave it that way or is there another step i can now take to set the living from ? to the appropriate Y or N and eliminate the ?. Thanks so much everyone Kristina

Whenever i try to add others to my focus group, my TMG times out and i get the not responding at the top. My focus group is 3400 people. i have optimized and validated, anything else i should do? thanks Kristina

Recently someone emailed me regarding an online tree, the person they inquired about i have no idea who they were or how they ended up in my tree- i have only merged 1 or 2 gedcoms, several years ago, what i want to do is somehow limit my data(?) Project(?) gedcom(?) [not sure of the terminology] to my ancestors, their spouses, their descendants, bascially people who are related to me somehow including by marriage and their ancestors and descendents. I may even want to start a new file/project/ with only those people, not sure why i would want or need 5 generations of ancestors of someone that i am not related to. I also have some "branches" from the gedcoms imported years ago that i would want somehow chopped off. my file is relatively small about 5,000 people, I know there will be several suggestions and various ways to do this so i welcome any and all suggestions, Thanks Kristina

i recently changed all my internal photos to external. i have my exhibits stored in two places, one is stored on hard drive by family then when i add to TMG, i put a copy in my TMG exhibit folder, so it involves several steps, one -adding to tmg exhibit from my hard drive second- when i am in the exhibits, i click on properties -click on save as -and change that to the exhibit path to put copy of the exhibit in my TMG exhibit folder is this the easiest way to do this??? thanks Kristina

i think i am making things more complicated but not sure why....or how not to?? when i get a document i keep it in a file organized by family in the desk, then i scan it in and put it in a similar file on my hard drive. Each family has a file where i keep documents that pertain to that family, both in the desk and on my hard drive. I then put a copy of that document or photo in TMG. I was not successful in leaving the link directly to that file on my hard drive bc sometimes i reorganize and clean up that family folder and make subfolders if i get a lot of DC, obit, photos, headstones, or collateral line information, then the link is lost if i move the photos to a subfolder so i made an exhibit folder that i put all exhibits in with TMG after they are linked to the family. I have not been able to drag and drop exhibits with TMG, i have seen posts to do that but it doesnt work for me.....again not sure why?? i am using VISTA home and have TMG 7.04 currently i have alot of photos and documents that i have not added to TMG, as i just started using TMG about 6 months ago, and thanks to modern technology i have been able to collect documents and photos faster than i can extract the data from them and place them in TMG. so i guess ideas on how people deal with their exhibits, storage and filing would be helpful. Thanks Kristina

Thanks Terry, didnt work until i put in a sort date in the second tag

How is this done? i read thru the help and see the option but how to I get it to connect with the sentence i want it to? such as death and burial? and then print in the journal? thanks Kristina

In the Master Place list, TMG provides the ability to click on events to see what event is associated with that place, then you can edit or do whatever you want right there. In the Master Source List, The title of the source is there, along with the number of times that source was cited........... Is there an easy way to find those citations? I am sure there is a way to run a report for it but i am really bad with the reports and never seem to get the results i want, and i would also like the ability to edit while i am in the record directly, like you can with the Master Place list. I am trying to clean up my data, and strongly suspect that some of my citations are not as i would want them, now that i am more familiar with the program, i do not want to do an edit to the master source until i see how it is used in the various tags. Is this a wish list request or is there already a way to do this? Kristina

Thanks i got it to work! Kristina

I see how to add a standard report to the toolbar, can you add the filtered group button to the toolbar? i think i got it-Run report of specific name? thanks Kristina

Thanks Terry Yes, I still think direct link as in the Master Place field would be the easiest, I hope they can implement that, I created a report and got 135 pages of all my citations, i think that would keep me busy for eons correcting, Thanks Kristina

Thanks those were easy, not sure why reports baffle me....... any idea why the random order of the citations occur? they are not numerical? they are not most to least, nor are they in creation order? Kristina

my backup takes about 7 minutes my project is 809 MB, i have lots of exhibits, internal, i want to change them to external, and was wondering where do most people make that external exhibit folder? i did a sample to see how it would work with John's utility, and put them in the TMG exhibit folder and the back up took the same time, as it goes through each exihibit being backed up, should the folder be outside the TMG folder? when i was backing up, the option is greyed out to uncheck backup exhibits i have been having problems restoring backups, and am hoping reducing the size of my project will help. any suggestions on how people handle the external exhibits would be appreciated. Kristina

I got a new laptop and installed TMG, my husband went through to clean up my files and noticed the TMG files in their default paths. he moved and deleted some: for example i cannot find this file path anywhere- C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\The Master Genealogist v7 or the user data files path C:\Users\username\Documents\The Master Genealogist v7 needless to say i have a multitude of problems, backups dont work, restores dont work, i thought it was Vista i was reading thru some topics and noticed this data file storage and looked thru the help content; now i see these file paths are missing......what should i do? my husband said he will make the paths and fix it but i am afraid, should i uninstall and reinstall? or is it simple enough to make the paths? any suggestions from the computer experts would be appreciated Thanks Kristina

no there is something wrong with the compression on the sqz files, they rarely open to be restored, they are on my hard drive, i finally gave up after 3 months and loosing lots of work, so now i just copy my current working file to my thumb drive and too my external drive, so i have a duplicate in case something happens, but i am desparately trying to find out why this happens, my sqz files should work and be reliable, on my desktop where i am running xp, everything works fine, but surely i am not the only one using vista and have restoring problems, so i guess it is not vista, but cannot figure out what it is. it is just frustrating thanks any ideas would be helpful Kristina

thank you, didnt realize there was hidden files, ok they are there, back to the drawing board......to find out why things arent working right

ok, i was just trying to figure out why my backups dont work, and restores are always corrupted, i have so many issues on my new laptop but everything works fine on my old desktop that has xp on, it is just slow, whereas my laptop is very fast but does not seem to cooperate with TMG at all