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Thanks Terry. I'll try to move all those pics to be external exhibits to see if that helps. I will report back in a few weeks! -strathglass

So I tried anyway with just the one line in the data paths text file for the user data: First, note that "My Documents" is actually mapped to \\.PSF\.Home\Documents (somewhat as expected). However "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents" does not match what is in the real "My Documents" folder. Not sure why it wouldn't. Anyways, putting the user data path under \\.PSF\.Home\Documents didn't fix the GOTERM problem. In fact, that seemed to have no effect as the user data folder was created with the default name (in the real "My Documents" folder and visible as expected also in Mac's "Documents" folder) and not the name I used in data paths text file. So next I deleted the just-created user data directory and changed data paths text file so that user data was now "UserData=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\TMG7-User-Data\". This does indeed seem to fix the GOTERM error. But of course the TMG7-User-Data folder is not in "My Documents" (Mac's "Documents" folder), but rather in "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents" - which is NOT the same thing!??? So I don't really know what the real intent of all this is, and how things should really appear! I will shortly actually try to load a project backup from my PC to see what happens. -Strathglass

A timely thread for me, but some information above does not jive with what I'm seeing: First, TMG help says the Data_paths.txt file should have FOUR lines, not the two as in Glenn's example (i.e. you need to also define shared & user program data file paths). So I am hesitant to try this without all 4 lines. Second, after setting up the shared profiles and shared user profile settings as Glenn initially described, I see a problem: My account's (Administrator's) "My Documents" folder should be as per my Mac's "Documents" folder, so I would have thought. But the contents of "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents" does NOT match the contents of my Mac's "Documents" folder. So I am confused about how this can work or at least what is going on??? I'll try it anyway and report the results. But if anyone can help, please do! Regards, Strathglass

I tried to add a DNA fingerprint based on my FamilyTreeDNA 67 marker test results. However when I go to add this test a dialogue window comes up entitled: "Locate ltocx13n.ocx" It wants me to specify the location of this OCX file. Looks like a s/w problem. Can anyone help? (I am running v7; there is nothing in the change log suggesting this is fixed in v7.02.) Regards, Colin

Should have checked the 7.01 change log. Thanks Jim! I will try this. Regards, strathglass

One issue and some basic questions on exhibits: I have an exhibit tied to a burial (tombstone photo), but even though the tombstone photo shows in the persons exhibit list, the tombstone photo can't be marked as primary (and it's the only [photo] exhibit I have for that person). Is there any way to get this to be the primary photo without adding it directly to that person? As an aside, how do the exhibits get used? What would be the best report to get all those exhibits out? I've obviously yet to do much with reports, but eventually will want to do a lot! Maybe a pointer on the most useful/popular and/or most detailed reports would help! Regards, Strathglass

Thanks Jim! -Strathglass

Can someone provide a brief explanation of how to use repositories? I don't really have a good feel for how you use them to document sources. Maybe the best thing is a sequence of good examples of what sources would logically have a repository, and what sources would not. Thanks, Strathglass.

Another very basic question: when should I add witnesses/how are witnesses used? Obviously for things like weddings, we know what the witness is. But in what other less obvious ways would you use a witness? And how would this be output? Someone suggested using witnesses for the names of the subjects in a photo that was attached to a special tag for the photo - would this ever be output in reports? Thanks, Strathglass.

Thanks all. This helps clarify. But Teressa's comment raises another question I was just about to ask anyway (and which may be related to Teressa's issue): however it is more about exhibits, so I'll start it in another thread! Regards, Strathglass

Wow - very detailed input. Thanks very much all. This gives me enough ideas on how I can use repositories effectively! Regards, Strathglass.

Sorry to cram 3 unrelated questions, but they are all hopefully easy: #1 - I have a family picture (parents + kids), and I am using external exhibits. Should I go in for each family member and add the same picture as an exhibit? Or is there some better practice? Or a way to make the exhibit automatically show up for the other family members? My tests show that if I do try to add the same picture for a 2nd family member, I need to re-enter the caption information each time! Is that normal? #2 - If I have a source like an email, which is not lengthy, I'd like to copy the text into the source tag in TMG7. What is the best way to do this? I see a source can have repositories for attachments: can someone summarize how repositories are used for sources, because the help was just confusing. I know I can add images as exhibits. I could even add the text of an email as a text exhibit. So I just need to know the right way to do this. #3 - My data is imported from FTM and mostly the female spouses do not have married names using the husband's last name: I noticed this since when I edited some of the data for the wife's I'd get a prompt asking if I wanted to create a married name for the wife with the husbands last name. I said OK. Is there a way to have it do this automatically for all the wifes that don't yet have this? OK, I lied: here is one more 4th question: #4 - If I have a printout of a persons ancestors or descendants as text file or tree (and no source gedcom file etc) do you list the source type as manuscript? That was my plan, just wanted to see if that makes sense based on what others do. Thanks for tolerating 4 questions! Regards, Strathglass

Thanks all so much for the valuable answers. Good point Michael about using separate threads for each question, I'll do that in the future. From your input I've decided on solutions for each of the issues I raised! (FYI, I don't really like the pseudo person approach, so for the family photo I will probably try the ideas of Mike or Michael). I am left with two questions - however I'll post those in new separate threads! Regards, Strathglass

I can't find any help info on what goes into the ADDRESSEE field vs. the DETAIL field in a ADDRESS or other tag with an address. So I was planning to use ADDRESSEE to hold the name of the institution, where relevant (church or school name, etc.). And where I know the actual street address, I was going to put that info (123 Main Street) in the DETAIL field. However I notice the reminder for the education tag says to put the institution name in the DETAIL field. Given this, can anyone recommend how to use ADDRESSEE vs. DETAIL? Should I just swap my original plans (institute name in DETAIL field, street address in ADDRESSEE)? I kind of feel ADDRESSEE was meant for something else, but I don't know what. Regards, Strathglass.

Good input Jim and Teresa, thanks very much. I like the idea of the cemetery as the source too! -strathglass

Oh, OK - thanks for clarifying Teresa. And I finally found that in the help (but it doesn't explain the "||" feature in any great detail). Does it matter how I use the up-to-nine subfields in the detail field? In other words, do I need to worry about consistency of info that goes in each position (like always putting street address in the 3rd field, or whatever)? Regards, Strathglass

Thanks Jim - that clarifies it. But it does leave one question: do you overload the Detail field with the cemetery name (Our Lady of Calvary Roman Catholic Cemetery) AND address (123 Main Street)? If not, you may end up omitting detail. -strathglass.

If it were not for me happening to notice a user post about it, I might not have known that a 7.01 release of TMG was made available relatively recently. I.E. -no notice on the TMG7 forums for the 7.01 release (just the same old sticky thread on the 7.0 release) -no email announcement -no home page indication of the update -no info on the News->Announcements forum either -the program itself hasn't offered me news about the upgrade (looks like the default is not not check automatically) I see now there is at least an indication on the Upgrades web page, and that the upgrade checker function in the s/w does detect the available upgrade. Still, I was disappointed not to see an announcement on the forums/the home page/via email. OK, enough whining: do people find this to be a good upgrade? I think I saw reports of a few continuing issues. But overall as long as it improves things I will probably upgrade sooner than later. Regards, Strathglass.

Thanks for clarifying Jim! -Strathglass

First time adding a person with TMG7: There is a field at the top called "Add to"? with a drop-down list containing only one entry. I am wondering why the one entry is a name based on the imported data: "FTM Data to 20080318 - Imported to TMG 7.0". I had imported all my data from FTM (Family Tree Maker), and the above string must have been something I created as part of the FTM export or TMG import. Still, I am not sure why I see this info here. Just bugs me to see that here. What does it mean and what can I do about it? Thanks, strathglass

Terry - you are a veritable wealth of TMG information. Thanks ever so much again! -strathglass

I was wondering if anyone can explain if there is a way to find the citation(s), if any exist, that refer to a particular source from the master source list (MSL). I have not yet found a way to do this. Regards, strathglass.

Thanks Terry - that is exactly what I need! -strathglass

Any advice on how to handle defining a source or sources for this scenario: much information is provided in an interview (really just a discussion with me making notes!) the information concerns many different families the information could even be provided over several different meetings, possibly over many years! Should I make separate source entries for each session? Or can I just use one source and load all the details in there? In this particular case, I am mainly concerned with info provided by one of my parents over the years. Thanks, strathglass

Thanks very much Teresa. This is exactly the kind of info I was looking for. -strathglass