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I think I have two issues here: #1 - Terry is right, I have the backup configured to include external exhibits, so that explains the backup size (but more on this below). #2 - It is still not clear though that the audio files are external: I have two ways to see exhibit info: [a] there is an area at the lower right of the exhibit log that displays info about the exhibit, and on the info tab of the exhibit's properties window. Here is what I see using these two methods: FOR AN INTERNAL EXHIBIT (an image, 2nd exhibit for the person): [a] shows: "2 (Internal), (1-15)/15 person 1:3" shows "IMAGE ******************** Internal image file Full name c:\USERS\STRATHGLASS\APPDATA\LOCAL\TEMP\TMG422098729\E_000013.jpg (etc)" FOR AN EXTERNAL EXHIBIT (an image, 1st and primary exhibit for the person): [a] shows "1 (External), (1-15)/15 person 1:3" shows "IMAGE ******************** External image file Full name c:\strathglass_genealogy\exhibits\PHOTO-SMITH-John circa 1935.jpg" (etc)" FOR AN AUDIO EXHIBIT (9th exhibit for the person): [a] shows "9, (1-15)/15 person 1:3" shows "AUDIO ******************** 26,741,239 bytes, 13 Aug 2010 20:24:34 c:\strathglass_genealogy\exhibits\MISC-SMITH-John oral recording circa 1959.mp3" So you see, it is not obvious for the audio exhibit (unlike the other two cases) whether the exhibit is internal or external. However the path info does support the notion that it is external. Shouldn't the info per [a] and support this like it does for image exhibits? Finally, how are images in a backup handled? Specifically, what happens when I do a restore to those images? (Never had to do a restore.) Regards, Strathglass

Dumb question, but: would one normally record BOTH an emigration and immigration record when one knows where someone emigrated from and immigrated to? If you only used one tag, you can only record the one location (of emigration or immigration). Thanks in advance! -strathglass

Scenario: I will temporarily be on the road and doing some genealogy updtes (TMG7.04) on my laptop instead of my desktop. #1 - Is it better to just copy my database folder to the laptop, or restore on my laptop a backup made on my desktop? (If I copy the database, I would also copy the exhibits, reports, & exports folders I created on the desktop [placed under c:\genealogy\<subfolder>, instead of TMG7 default location]) #2 - I presume whatever the answer to 1 is, going in reverse from laptop back to desktop would be done the same way. #3 - If a backup is the way to go, should i use a data-only backup? I am not entirely clear what I miss if I do a data-only backup (except I know that it would exclude screen layouts, which I would not want on the laptop anyway given the different screen sizes). Any advice appreciated. -Strathglass

There are two populare, commercial software packages that let you run windows programs on a Mac, both mentioned already: * Parallels Desktop * VMWare Fusion Both will require you to have the OS disk available (e.g. Win XP) I have personally used both of these to run TMG7 without any problems (currently using VMWare Fusion 3). -strathglass

My backups are very slow. Is it normal for a backup to take on the order of an hour? I have only about 600 people in my project. I have about 75 internal images too (taking up 95MB of space). It seems to me backing up such a project should not take so long! Regards, Strathglass

Hi All: Making your own book has become so inexpensive now, I'd be interested in generating a book based largely on the data in my TMG7 database. Anyone have any experience doing this? I am looking for tips on what works and what doesn't. How to include ancestor/descendant charts? (Formatting issues due to page size limitations, how to split them onto multiple pages...) What kind of TMG reports to embed into the book? etc. Really, I should learn more about TMG reports because I haven't experimented much with reports yet. Any tips appreciated. Including suppliers you've used successfully (Blurb.com is one I've looked at). Regards, Strathglass.

Thanks Virginia! Regards, Strathglass

Here is a line from my GEDCOM output from TNG 7.03: 2 TITL PHOTO-CHISHOLM-Finlay (b.1858- This is a truncated version of the full file name, which is "PHOTO-CHISHOLM-Finlay (b.1858-03-25 d.1931-06-18), Portrait.jpg". All such TITL lines for JPEG images seem to be cut off at 30 characters for some reason. Why is TMG truncating this? Seems like a bug to me. Regards, Strathglass.

I am looking to figure out how to: #1 - create a list of all exhibits within the database (ideally indicating what item they are attached to [which could be multiple items]), including whether they are internal or external #2 - export all internal images to a folder Now I am pretty sure I had previously done #2 and #1 to some extent. But I can't remember nor figure out how to do it again now! Regards, Strathglass.

Thanks again Jim! I'll have to write a script to parse the GEDCOM to pluck the file leaf name and plug it into the TITL field, as that is what I really want. Regards, Strathglass.

Ahh - excellent, thanks Jim! -Strathglass

Hi all: I am trying to understand if the situation I have is normal operation or if there is an issue with the TMG tree display and/or Visual Chartform's output: There is some inbreeding in this particular family tree, which may be the issue: John and Dorcas begat John Jr. and Asa. But Asa and John's offspring married each other and begat Sabra. I was entering data from younger to older and realized that Asa's parents were the same as John Jr's, so I simply put the existing person# values for John and Dorcas as Asa's mom & dad. The problem? In the output report, I would expect to see John and Dorcas once, but they show up twice (the second instances marked as "This person is a duplicate"). I was hoping the output generation would be smarter than this, and put them in only once and draw the appropriate lines to children John Jr. and Asa. Also, in TMG tree view, John and Dorcas also show twice, but at least you can figure out its the same people because the person# values are shown (and are the same in both places). Are these just limitations or are they bugs? My main disappointment is that the chart output duplicates the couple instead of just drawing lines appropriately. Can this be fixed? Regards, Strathglass

Great! Thanks Mike, I will try to play with the output in VCF. Regards, Strathglass.

Hi all: Have a new problem to resolve, hopefully someone can help: -I backed up my database that I last worked on with TMG7.03 under Win XP Pro SP3 running under VMware Fusion on a Mac. -I went to restore this using TMG7.03 again but this time with Win XP Pro SP3 running under Parallels Desktop on a Mac -I select the project to restore OK -I select the folder to restore TO and the existing exhibits folder to use: for both of these, after selecting, I will get the subject "folder ... does not exist" error message, even though it does (obviously, since I just selected them!!) I am about to remove and re-install the application and try again. In the mean time, does anyone have any ideas? The backup was a usual complete backup of EVERYTHING, if that makes a difference. Regards, Strathglass

Running TMG7.03 on Win XP PRO SP3 (running under VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X 10.5.4) (system has Office 2003 installed) (system [XP & Office] fully updated with MS Update). Weird problem trying to create the subject report: it creates OK in HTML format. But when I try to create in RTF or Word 2000 or later or Word v8, it seems to have a problem: -several progress bar windows show and complete/go away (generating output for 19 people, generating bibliography, etc.) -then it seems to just hang with the report window open and an hour glass (tried waiting many minutes to see progress, but nothing happens) -the task manager shows virtually no CPU load (System Idle process running at mostly 98 or 99%) -I have no way out except to try and kill TMG with task manager: when I try, TMG comes back with a Window saying output has completed, do I want to open the file?!!! -At this point the file is created but is empty! Any advice? (I haven't tried with this current setup to see if other reports in Word or RTF create OK.) Regards, Strathglass.

I have some external exhibits that display OK, but when I open the exhibit log window they display the Yellow frown face icon indicating the exhibit can't be found. Clicking the image properties button again displays the image OK and has the correct path. Any idea on how to fix this annoyance? I already tried to reindex and optimize the database, but that did not help. The images are under a folder that starts in c:\genealogy. Regards, Strathglass

Thanks very much Jim! I did not notice that option: I tried it and added my single external exhibit folder to the search path and that fixed the problem! Regards, Strathglass

Thanks for the feedback Carol. I have no compelling reason to keep the files on the Mac side (just wanted to do so to keep all my files organized in one location), so I am therefore thinking of sticking with Parallels and keeping the files on the PC side: as long as I back up my VM then the TMG files are backed up. And I can use Parallels Explorer to see & copy the files from the Mac too. So keeping files on the PC side would be OK. Just wondering if others kept the files on the Mac side (i.e. is this problem specific to me or a common parallels issue)? Regards, Strathglass.

John - are your TMG files stored on the Parallels VM (ie. on the C:\ drive), or do you keep them on the Mac side and let TMG access them via a shared folder? I was able to get Parallels to run TMG OK, but only in the former case, not the latter. Regards, Strathglass

Ah bingo - that did it Glenn, thanks very much! (Although in my case I do have a windows version of Office installed.) I was able to also get TMG working on Parallels by keeping the TMG files on the Parallels VM (in C:\ in My Documents folder) (wouldn't work with data files on the Mac side for unknown reasons). Do you have any reason to recommend one over the other for Parallels or Fusion? I prefer Parallels for a few reasons, but don't like that the files are kept on the PC VM. Regards, Strathglass

FYI - I have given up on Parallels due to this issue, which I was not able to resolve. It appears to be something peculiar to TMG7 by the way: regular text files are able to be edited OK, so I don't think it is any issue with the VM's access to the Mac files. VMware Fusion seems to work well for me running TMG, so I will stick with it for now. Regards, Strathglass

By the way: If I double-click the .pjc file directly (created essentially on a different machine [VMware fusion vs. Parallels Desktop]) instead of trying to restore a backup, I get a similar error message: "An error happened when opening the data tables... Path Z:\Documents\06.Genealogy\[...] not found" Again, this message is wrong because the path (folder) indicated DOES indeed exist. -Strathglass

Thanks John. Yes, I had already found and run that utility! The two weeks will be the time for me to get around to taking all those pictures and renaming and captioning them and loading them back into TMG (and also making sources where required as part of my ongoing db clean up)! It would take a lot LONGER if I did NOT have your TMG utility! THanks! -strathglass

On a Mac you'll need to run it using a PC emulation program, as TMG is not designed to run directly on a Mac. You can use a program like Parallels or Fusion to do this. See this recent thread about running TMG on a Mac using Parallels (with an issue that was resolved): http://www.whollygenes.com/forums201/index...showtopic=10076 -strathglass

Thanks for clarifying Glenn - what you say makes sense based on what I've seen. Only issue: I can't get TMG to start automatically (figured out how to get icon on Mac's task bar [or whatever its called on Mac!], but it doesn't actually start TMG, just Parallels desktop). I also would like to know if I can back up to my Mac "Documents" folder: I will have to try that. Also, in conclusion: does anyone know how Fusion does with TMG? Would I be better to use it? Maybe I'll have to try it out too! -Strathglass