Bookworm

I had no problem using the F3 to repeat and also the F4 to enter a source in either TMG 8 or TMG 9- until I bought a computer running Windows 8. I have to combine the FN and F3 or FN and F4 keys to avoid the default for these F keys which is to change the screen brightness. This is very inconvenient- is there a way to reprogram the F3 and F4 keys so that th TMG functions are the default?

Bev

I had no problem using the F3 to repeat and also the F4 to enter a source in either TMG 8 or TMG 9- until I bought a computer running Windows 8. I have to combine the FN and F3 or FN and F4 keys to avoid the default for these F keys which is to change the screen brightness. This is very inconvenient- is there a way to reprogram the F3 and F4 keys so that th TMG functions are the default?

Bev

When I upgraded to v7 I could no longer see the ages, but ignored it. I just upgraded to v8 and still can't see them nor can I find a way to turn them on (or off).

Bev

Thanks for all the help! I did go into Windows Explorer and change the way file names are viewed and then eliminated the extensions following .ged- and naturally got a warning from Windows that this would make things unstable- which, of course, did not happen. The reasoning of MS is inscrutable for sure. Makes genealogy look easy by comparison- Bev

Did you rename them using Windows Explorer so that the extenstion was now only ".ged" and not ".ged.txt"? What error messages do you get when you try to open them in TMG? You said they are plain text files. Can you open them with an editor? What do the first couple of lines look like? You said that you tried to "Save as" in Word. Did you "Save as" a text file and not a Word document? Have you tried opening them with Notepad instead of Word? Something must be strange about these files as lots of people have no problem with importing GEDCOM files into TMG.

Hi Michael- I tried all the things you mention, but still kept having a Whatever.ged.txt filename. In Explorer the TXT suffix after the GED suffix was invisible to me- but not to TMG. TMG kept telling me that it wasn't a ged file. I used the method Virginia suggested and it worked, but I do prefer to understand these things. I had taken a three year break from genealogy and gone through some software upgrades in everything, from Windows to Word to TMG, but previously I too had edited gedcoms in Word, saved them as text files and imported them into TMG with no difficulties. Thanks for responding.

Regards- Bev

Bev -

 

You have renamed the extension .ged in Windows Explorer? Try this:

 

Open the file in Notepad, then click on File > Save As. At that window, change the 'save as' type to :All Files and change the encoding to Ansi.

 

Virginia

Thanks Virginia- that solved it. I can't help but wonder why after doing this for years in Word Perfect and several versions of Word and several versions of TMG it became a problem. I am grateful for the solution.

Regards- Bev

Use Windows Explorer to rename them to remove the ".txt" extension.

Hi Terry- Using Windows Explorer was the first thing I tried when the "Save as" in Word didn't work. Despite renaming using Explorer and also trying to change the attributes (e.g., make it something other than a txt file and make it a file that would open in TMG), it still comes up as a text file and TMG won't open it. I just don't get it.

Bev

I obtained several gedcoms and cannot import any them. They are all plain text documents saved as whatever.ged, but all of them are saved as whatever.ged.txt, so naturally TMG doesn't import them. I have tried several editors (various versions of Word, Notpad), but can't seem to save them properly. I never had a problem doing this in the 4.x versions of TMG, but am getting nowhere fast with the 7.x version. What am I missing?

My computer crashed while TMG (and several other programs) were running. Now I can’t open the TMG project that was open when the system crashed. I get a series of error messages that offer me the option of IGNORE, ABORT or RETRY. When I choose IGNORE I get the following error messages:

File_N not found, variable NPER is not found , SS1 is not found, nesting error, alias is not found, and other error message. I have “ignored” my way through all of these as a bar signaled a percentage of something was finishing, only to have them start again when the bar reached 100%.

I am using TMG Version 7.04

I backed up two days before, but would prefer not to lose the hours of data I had been working on. Any suggestions?

When I was using an earlier version of TMG I was able to export a gedcom that consisted of all the people for whom I had entered data within a certain period of time, e.g., on 6/20/2010 I could request everyone for whom I had entered changes between 6/10/2010 to 6/15/2010. I haven't done this in a while and haven't done it with 7.04 and simply can't figure out how to do it. Thanks for the support!

I have a large database and a cousin would like a GEDCOM of her family data, including all the spouses and children and descendants of those children, even those from other marriages. I can get all the direct ancestors and their spouses, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the "extra" spouses and their children. I am using the Focus Group to collect everyone and then copying everyone to Project Explorer and then exporting the GEDCOM with all spouses. It works fine for the direct ancestral line. Can I just change the filter in the Focus Group (and change it to what?) or am I on the wrong track altogether? I did think of going to the top-of-the-tree people and filtering for their descendants, but there were a lot of them and it seems awkward. Thanks in advance- Bev