Paul M

Simple question - Do you use maiden name or married name for a married person in the "name of person" field in the source definition? While I'm at it what is your standard convention for abbreviation and titlle for a cemetery marker source? As always, your help is much appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks for your reply. I'm with you on finding flash drives worrisome. I just bought a couple of 8 GB flash drives for $18 each. So, besides the worry of losing them, I figure anything that cheap has to have something wrong with it. I suppose your procedure is secure, quick and easy. However, I really like being able to just grab the flash drive and laptop and be on my way in two seconds. Thanks again. I don't know about "official" -- but for what it's worth, you can do it if the flash drive always takes the same drive letter when it is inserted into each machine; moreover, the drive letter of the flash drive must be the same on both machines. I worry about flash drives -- losing them, stepping on them or having them hit by cosmic rays. It's a better idea to keep the project on both machines, updating them with batch files to and from the flash drive as required. The directory structures have to be identical on each machine, and of course one must remember to update the flash drive whenever changes have been made to the project. This has the advantage that one's data exists in three separate places -- the two machines and the transfer flash drive. It has the disadvantage that one must be scrupulous about using only one machine at a time and updating the flash drive every time one has opened the project, even when data doesn't seem to have changed. The TMG help file offers a very clear description of TMG's directory structures to which you'll want to attend. I use "robocopy" for the file transfers; it gives much finer control of the copy process and allows one to exclude directories or files which ought not be copied. Here's the TMG section of my batch file for copying from my desktop to the flash drive: REM TMG %SystemRoot%\system32\robocopy d:\TMG i:\TMG /MIR /XO /XD d:\tmg\UserProgramData d:\tmg\logs d:\tmg\backups /XF "Last VFI.log" /XA:SH /DST /R:5 /W:2 /LOG+ :\work\leap_down.log /TS /NP /NJS The robocopy help will explain the various switches (in a command prompt type "robocopy /?"). Although I keep TMG's UserProgramData directory on my d: drive it should not be synchronized with the laptop. The /XD switch excludes it from the copy process. All good wishes. formerprof

Michael, Thank you. I searched in help for "flash drive" finding nothing. Never thought to look for data storage. I found it and will read it. Thanks again.

I just started a new project, kind of in the feasibility study stage. I initially created the project on a flash drive. I have gone from desktop to laptop with no problems that I have noticed. I backup to the hard drive on the desktop, which in turn is backed up. It is just so easy to grab the flash drive and laptop and take off for the library or wherever, I am thinking of trying it with other projects. So, like you, I've had no problems. But, I am wondering if there is one lurking out there waiting to get me. Thanks for you input.

I am considering storing a project on a flash drive so that I can work on it using either my desktop or laptop computer. Is there official guidance/recommendations for doing this. If not, does anyone have any guidance? Thank you.

Is anyone running, or tried running TMG, in a linux environment such as Ubuntu using a Windows emulator, such as Wine? I have pretty much decided to move away from Microsoft over the next year or two.

Thanks all for the replies. I will give each suggestion a try.

I want to add a source type for an online database, called simply "Online Database." An example of this would be the Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 at the NEHGS web site, www.newenglandancestors.org. I would love to see an example if anyone has set up a source type similar and wouldn't mind sharing how they set it up. Thank you

Nope.

It is set to Tahoma, 8pt for both minimum and maximum. I am not necessarily making a list. The carriage return could start a new paragraph or be used as a separator.

Michael, thank you for the reply. That was my first thought, but it isn't the case. If I manually enter (no copy and paste) a carriage return in the citation detail window, say enter a "1" "CR" "2", then the boxes will appear in the citation preview between the 1 and 2 in the tag entry window. It's really not a big deal. Maybe it's intentional to show me there is a list.

With Acrobat Standard version, you can save your pdf files as a jpg or any number of different file formats. I don't know if Reader allows you to do this or not. It would be nice to be able to add pdf files even if TMG converted it to an image.

I'm a novice amateur and I've tried several formats and text boxes for noting census data, age, marital status, etc. I am not happy with any of them. Right now I am trying it in the memo section of the census tag in the format, description1: data1, description2: data2, and so on. Is there an official or suggested place and format for entering census details and/or what do you suggest? Thanks in advance for any help.

After updating to 7.02, the citation preview field in the tag entry window displays carriage returns as □□. Is this intentional and am I able to configure how the preview displays.

Thank you.