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Thanks for all the help, Jim. I'm going to have to brute force it. A small group of people in the focus window imports fine but a large focus group (my small group + their descendants & ancestors) still has the broken sources. And the "all people" option also transfers with broken sources. I don't understand why that happens, but it does.

Wow! At first glance, it looks like creating a focus group and making a new project (via secondary output in the list of people report) worked! My sources came over correctly. Why would creating a new project of a subset of people work? The source problem seems to be an issue throughout my project, so I need to do this for everyone. I tried creating a blank project and importing my project into it, but at the RM import window, it still recognizes it as two separate sets of data. The file still had the source problem when I tried this way. [one interesting thing to note: my dataset had a note that it was originally imported in 2002 from UFT. I don't remember that. My memory is that TMG has always been my program! I think I must have used UFT for a couple of months before discovering TMG and moving to it. I wonder if this is what caused the problems?] I also tried to create a new project with everyone by going to Reports--> List of People and choosing "All people in the project" as the subject of the report instead of the focus group. The new project created this way still had source issues, so there seems to be something special about going through the focus group. Does this make sense???? How do i get the entire list of people loaded to a focus group? I know only how to add them individually!

Hi Jim, We've been communicating on RM boards on this same issue. I'm having the exact same problem as ehindmar. I've changed source types to try to sync. I've imported the whole list of source templates from a new, blank project (with BL prefix added to distinguish them). I've changed my original source to one of the new BL source types. That strategy works to a limited extent. It at least assigns a source type to my sources for import into RM (as opposed to no source type with no fields). But it's still the wrong source type and information is missing. A source of "BL-will..." type becomes a book source upon import to RM and the fields don't match. Even a newly created freeform source type imports as a book. There's something seriously wrong with my sources and I can't seem to sync the sources following the TMG import guide document from RM. Did you find a solution to ehindmar's problem? Maybe the same solution will work for me. Thank you for your time. - Dorie

Thanks, everyone. The answer so far is what I expected but I was hoping I was wrong. The ability to run a report would be a huge benefit in a manual conversion. The reason I'm changing them is that I'm trying to make the way I use TMG more conducive to migrating to another program at some point in the future and I prefer to do that now before the project grows any bigger. My limited research so far suggests that even TMF-friendly direct imports like Roots Magic can't handle internal exhibits. I've verified that in my own practice imports. External image exhibits transferred fine but internal ones didn't. I ran TMG Utility to convert the 56 internal images to external & it worked like a charm and direct-imported to RM as expected. Because I came across Terry's posting on external exhibits years ago, I had only a few to convert. As for internal text, well they seem to be a problem. And I have somewhere around 300 of those. I figured copy & paste was my backup option, which I think is feasible given the relatively small number. I probably typed them into Word first for spellcheck anyway so maybe I kept those files in a backup somewhere!

Back in my early days, I entered a lot of transcribed wills, etc. as internal text exhibits and now I want to make them external exhibits. Is there a way to do that? If not, is there a way to print a list of internal text exhibits so I at least know where to find them? I can see them in the exhibit log (all people, exhibit type = text) but I can't figure out how to push that information into a report. I've taken a half-decade hiatus from genealogy so I'm still trying to remember how to get around! I have version 9.05. Thanks!