Sandy Clunies

Being one of the TMG "pioneers" (beta tester pre release 25+ yrs ago) - I have become lazy in my old age and have not upgraded quickly - am currently on TMG 8. Do you recommend upgrading to TMG 9 anyhow? I have no intention of jumping the TMG ship any time soon - will await other developers making a transition easier for those of us with huge datasets (some of my exceed 20,000 individuals).

Thanks, Terry! With your help and a quick call to Dorothy at WG ... the move went smoothly... all up and running now on the Win8 machine!

Waited for new PC before long-delayed updating. Please walk me thru the steps needed to upgrade - have a dozen .pjcs with over 100,000 person entries! TMG 7.4 remains on the XP machine - have nothing on Win8 machine except all the images on an external hard drive.

Thanks to Jim and Virginia's good advice, I was able to successfully re-install 7.04 on my netbook.

Thanks, Jim and Virginia. That's probably it - the email I used way back when!

OK - MOST everything worked out! Program installed and opened. And a .sqz backup installed. Only glitch was when I entered my ancient serial number - it rejected it and said I had a 30-day trial! Now that takes me to Oct 23rd and I really only need this on the netbook Oct 18-20! But that is cutting it rather close! I guess I could call Tech Support and get help - or drive up to the office and surrender myself (only a 30 min drive!) Dorothy is making 20+ charts for me this week, so maybe I will show up in person!

Thanks, Jim. Have had 7 on my desktop since release! Where do I find the TMG7 installer? Have to do everything with a USB drive on the netbook, or dopwnload from the web. I still have the 20 Apr 2008 email with the serial number - shall try that!

Want to copy TMG7 program files + one project over to a netbook (with only USB drives) for one event - then I promise to upgrade to V8 ! But there are 18,000 entries done over 5 years in this project and deadlines are looming. I copied all the files I could think of from the desktop to the USB to the netbook. But where/what are the filenames to actually RUN the program on the netbook? HELP!

Sandy -

 

There have been a couple of reports of this problem, including a fix suggested by a Firefox user in the tmg mailing list archives here.

 

Virginia

Thanks, Virginia - guess it's a Firefox fix needed!

Lately, when I have a tag entry screen open for new person, & have gone out to the web (either from inside or outside TMG) to copy info, when I return to TMG, I cannot enter the data. The keyboard seems frozen, and I have to cancel out and re-do the whole new person entry. Glitch, gremlins or what?

1. Use File > Copy Project to make a copy of Project A.

 

2. In that copy of Project A, delete all Data Sets other than Meade.

 

3. Merge the resulting Project with Project A.

 

For details on merging Projects and Data Sets see my article on Merging

Thanks, Terry. I had scoured your "Primer" book but wasn't sure about moving it to another already established project, rather than to a new project.

I used focus group to copy 170+ people in Project A to new dataset Meade. Now I want to move dataset Meade to Project B. Steps to take?

Sandy,

 

You could attach all the individual files, but there are a lot of them so it's easy to miss some, and they are large. Better to make a backup of that project, and email the backup. Making a backup both bundles them into a single file and compresses them, so you have a smaller package to email.

 

Your correspondent "opens" the backup by using File > Restore.

Of course - (whack on side of head!) - thanks, Terry!

To send a GEDCOM, select 'People in the Focus Group' on Step 4 of the export wizard.

 

To send a TMG project, use the List of People report. Select 'Focus Group' as the subject. Use the Options / Secondary Output tab to create a new project.

Bingo! I'd done it once long ago, but forgot the steps. Now that there's a new project with files in a separate folder - how can I email this to someone who also uses TMG 7.04? Do I separately attach each individual file? Am I right that my sources for those 877 people have all transferred to the new project - seems so on first glance.

I did search both Lee and Terry's books but didn't find this TMG>TMG email transfer mentioned.Thanks, Jim!

I want to send a TMG friend what I have on her lines. I have 877 of her ancestors in a focus group (my full project has 33,000+ people) ... what is the best and most goof-proof way to do this?

Perfect! - thanks, Jim!

Love my new 22" LCD widescreen monitor - more space for layout, etc. - but, alas, I have the same old eyes and need to increase font size in data entry tag box - only see way in Preferences to increase font size for memos and lists - how about just for basic data entry box?

Intermittently, I am getting this error message during routine data entry:

"Error 58 REPPUSH Record is out of range"

A "retry" allows data entry, but it is a nuisance. I have done a recent maintenance check of the large (22,000+) project.

What is the cause and fix ?

The dilemma of the "creeping commas" - How do I keep credentials, separated from a surname with a comma, from jumping to the front of the output. If I place "John Jones, Ph.D." or "Sandra MacLean Clunies, CG" in a space in a master source list as author or compiler or recipient, the output moves everything after the comma to the FRONT of the displayed surname fo it looks like "Ph.D. John Jones". I've been doing a workaround by leaving off commas, but am sure there is a way to do it and present names correctly. Same thing happens with multiple authors. "John Jones, Bill Smith and Herb White" comes out "Bill Smith and Herb White John Jones". Advice please!

I recently moved every TMG file and folder from C:\ to external drive E:\ to free up space on C:\ The program works fine - all my projects open and work - BUT I have not been able to update to 6.07 or 6.08 because a message comes up that a file is missing. I moved every single file that was in the TMG folder. Is this "update" file hiding somewhere else on the C:\ drive -what is its name?

---Sandy.

Sandy, with CDs (and the software used to burn them) it often works better to make your backup to a folder on your hard drive and then copy the .sqz file to the CD, rather than backing up directly from TMG.  Same for restore from a CD; sometimes it works better to copy the .sqz file from the CD to the hard drive first.  I do backup and restore directly with a flash drive, but occasionally people have a problem with that too and have to copy the file over.

 

Virginia

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Thanks, Virginia - worked like a charm!

Rec'd a CD/DVD disc with a Family Tree Maker .ftw file on it. Though my desktop CD drive is also DVD, it wouldn't read the disc. Moved to the laptop - no problems - smooth import into TMG including images, etc. Up and running. "encountered no problems" said TMG and it looked great - has over 10,000 persons on it.

But I want to move this .prj to the desktop, OR to a flash drive for portability, so while open in TMG on the laptop, I selected "backup project" to another plain CD - and got all kinds of "file missing" messages and had to cold boot to get out of it.

Any ideas here?