argothor

Thanks Terry, I have used exhibits and always picked external, but didn't have any real reason as to why. Now I have a reason. Given your advise I'll continue to use external exhibits.

In my view there is no reason to ever use internal exhibits, though others my disagree.

 

There are two advantages I see to making them internal - 1) you don't have to worry about their location if you move your data to a new computer, and 2) they are automatically included in your backups.

 

The second one is also a major disadvantage - it means that every time you make a backup of your data you are backing up your exhibits too, even though the exhibits seldom change. As a result your backups are larger, much larger if you have lots of exhibits, then they need to be.

 

The second disadvantage is that internal exhibits cannot be used when building a website site with Second Site. Even if you don't currently intend to do that, I think it is wise to retain the ability to do so without having to re-do your exhibits.

 

A third issue is that if you attach the same exhibit to more than one person, tag, source, etc., another copy is saved each time. With External exhibits only one copy is saved on your computer no matter how many times it is attached.

 

I think it's best to use external exhibits, and do your backups of them separately, as you do with all your other valuable data.

Thanks for the response Jim, but now I have more questions that answers. I've used TMG for years but I have no idea what I'm suppose to do with List of People and List of Events Secondary Output nor do I know how to run a filtered report.

I do know how to make backups.

Can you be more detailed in your directions

Thanks

List of People report / Secondary Output tab

 

List of Events report / Secondary Output tab

 

You run a filtered report (such as Flag = some value) and use the Secondary Output tab for what to do such as change some flag to a selected value.

 

Make a backup before doing this so that you can experiment and revert if necessary.

What are the pros and cons of external exhibits vs. internal exhibits?

I'm wanting to change the flag value of numerous people to another already existing value. And with nearly 90,000 people in my data it would be a lot nicer if I could do this globally rather than one at a time.

Is that possible? If so, can anyone walk me through the steps to do that?

Thanks in advance.

Roger Dellinger

Reinstalling, then deleting the .CDX files and doing the maintenance seems to have done the trick. I'm back up and running.

Thanks Michael for your help.

Roger

Gosh, I am out of ideas. Maybe some other user will have a suggestion. You might consider refreshing your installation using the TMG v6.12 full installer. Install over the top of the existing installation using the same settings and path as the current install. This will only refresh the program and have no effect on your data. If you don't already have the file, you can download it from here:

http://www.whollygenes.com/files/tmg6setup.exe

 

Remember to record your username, email address, and unlock code as you are likely to need them again.

 

If that doesn't work, I can only suggest that you contact Support directly.

support@whollygenes.com

Still getting the same error after deleting all of the .cdx files.

I am just a user like yourself, but searched this Forum for this older TMG version for similar posts. The common suggestion on some similar postings for Version 6 were to go to the folder where your project is stored and delete all (and only) the files with the Windows file extension of ".CDX". (There are likely to be nearly thirty of these files for a project.) TMG will rebuild these files when next you open your project, so you are not putting your data at risk doing this.

 

Once you get your project to open, be sure to do the File Maintenance commands.

 

Do the maintenance actions as a pair: Optimize, followed by Validate File Integrity. Do this pair until the Validate reports that it found no errors. Then do a final Optimize.

 

You should do this maintenance regularly for your TMG projects.

 

Let us know if this works.

When trying to load any project in TMG 6.12 I get the following error message:

An error happened when opening to data tables...

File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST\_ND.dbf not found.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

My project loaded just the other day, so I'm not sure what has happened in the meantime - no new programs were installed since it last worked.