Jim Byram

Right. The model is...

Globally... Tag Type > Role > Sentence

Locally... Tag > Role > Sentence

Note that multiple roles for a tag type (or tag) principal won't translate to other programs. (Although the principal in a Family Historian fact can have a witness role. The trick there is to suppress the principal role with a {blank} local sentence so the fact doesn't have two outputs.)

Multiple roles for a tag type (or tag) witness will translate to some other programs. (such as RootsMagic or Family Historian)

That you can't edit suggests that TMG is locked. You need to make sure that the installation is unlocked.

1) Run TMG normally and unlock. Help > Unlock the full program If TMG is already unlocked running as Standard user, this selection won't appear in the Help menu.

2) Run TMG as administrator by right-clicking on the TMG shortcut and selecting Properties > Run as administrator. Reply to the security prompt and unlock. Exit TMG once you are done and then you can run TMG normally.

You must use the registration information that you received in your registration email from Wholly Genes.

On the Tag Type Definition / Other tab, the GEDCOM export type should be 1 EVEN 2 TYPE. "CE19" is non-standard and invalid.

The sentences make no sense as written. Something simple that works...

[P] <|and [PO]> appeared on the U.S. census <of [D]> <[L]>

[W] was enumerated in the household of [P] <and [PO]> in the [D] U.S. census <[L]>

> Are you guys saying that only the "Census" tag was standard in TMG and the "Census 1900", "Census 1910" et al are not standard tags that came with the TMG software?

Yes. "Census 1900" and "Census 1910" are custom tag types created by you? or by another user if you got the data from someone else.

If you open the master Tag Type List and select a tag type, check the second entry in the middle column. The Type will be "Standard" or "Custom". You can determine whether any tag type is standard or custom by checking this.

To cut through the confusion...

You are using the standard "Census" tag type and add Census tags to individuals with different dates for the different census years? This is the issue that Terry and I aren't understanding.

Although the Census tag type is a standard tag type, you can edit the tag type sentence globally and you can edit the Tag sentence locally in the Census event tags. This should explain why you get different different sentences in different projects.

The standard Census tag type should have a GEDCOM export tag of CENS. Any custom tag type should have a GEDCOM export tag of 1 EVEN 2 TYPE. A custom GEDCOM export tag like CE9 or CE19 is non-standard and not portable in a GEDCOM.

You should not be using GEDCOM to copy data between your projects. Using GEDCOM results in data loss of things like witnesses and sentences. You use the List of Individuals to export individuals to a new project, merge that new project with an existing project. and then merge the new data set in the target project to the existing data set.

You've been inconsistent about what custom tag types that you've added to different projects and how you've set up those custom tag types. You just need to clean things up by adding the tag types or editing the tag types as you wish. I don't mean 'inconsistent' in a negative way since it's perfectly normal to have different custom tag types in different projects.

Using the master Tag Type List, you can export selected tag types and import them to a different project. This allows you to copy a custom tag type created in one project to a different project.

You can't edit a witness sentence unless there is a witness since those sentences are specific to each witness.

First... A project is a SET of 48 files. As a general rule, you NEVER move one of those files from one project to another project.

Second... A .DBF file often has a corresponding .FPT file. They are closely linked to one another. If you replaced only the .DBF file, then the .DBF file and the .FPT file no longer correspond to one another.

The question is how much data you lost and what other problems will occur by your choice to replace one file of the project set.

You found that the original Name_PD.DBF did exist and it's possible that I could have fixed it. The file probably had a damaged header.

If you don't have the original Name_PD.DBF, your only choice at this point is to revert to the backup.

The error message is saying that the NAME_PD.dbf data table is missing. Confirm that by checking the project folder.

1) If NAME_PD.dbf is present, it is likely damaged. I might be able to fix it. Otherwise...

2) Is there another  NAME_PD file with a different file type such as NAME_PD.bak or another file type (other than .FPT and .CDX)? If so, rename the file to NAME_PD.dbf and try to open your project. (WARNING. NAME_PD.FPT and NAME_PD.CDX are correct. Do NOT rename those two files.)

To be sure, the project folder isn't being directly synced with something like OneDrive or DropBox or another syncing service? That would be a good way to cause this issue.

Mary,

You could use an exhibits folder (the default location or a location of your choice) and include a subfolder for each of your projects.

As a matter of good practice, each exhibit should have a unique name irrespective of which folder it is stored in.

When you add a new exhibit, the exhibits are opened to the exhibits folder location in Preferences. Since each project has its own exhibits folder location, you can set the exhibits folder path to the proper subfolder for each project. 

If you ever need to relocate your exhibit tree in the future (such as moving to a new computer), be sure to update the exhibit path in Preferences for each project and then use Validate File Integrity to update the paths for the exhibits in each project.

Jim

After you make the changes to the List and Project Explorer font sizes in Preferences, you need to save your layout to make the changes stick.

Saving the layout apparently isn't necessary for the Other font sizes.

I see various issues here that should have been cleaned up during TMG development.

Help / About tells you which version of TMG that you are running. It also shows your registration information if you need to recover that (name, email address and registration number). This assumes that you can run TMG on your older computer.

You can contact me by email using the link in my message above.

You need to install TMG v8.08 on your new system and restore your project backup(s) on the new system.

Terry Reigel has written a guide to the process of moving to a new computer.

http://tmg.reigelridge.com/new-computer-version.htm

Please ask questions about anything that you do not understand.

If you write me and tell me what installer version that you need (US or UK), I'll give you a link to download the installer.

You can contact me by email by clicking on the link below...

Jim Byram

Reports that have a Sources tab in the options should have this option...

What do you do when this happens?

It could be that the file header is damaged and that's why TMG can't find the file. When this happens, if you send me the _nd.dbf and _nd.fpt files, I can check the table.

You can contact me by email by clicking on the link below...

Jim Byram

The error suggests an issue with the tag type table memo file (the .fpt file).

Although this looks like a data issue, I'd try running the installer and selecting [Repair] and if that does nothing, try reinstalling.

Send me your project so that I can check it. Make a project backup and select only the project files. If the backup is too large to email, you'll need to make it available for download.

You can contact me by email by clicking on the link below...

Jim Byram

The error suggests that there is a problem with the image file.

Remove the exhibit and see if that resolves the thumbnail creation issue.

If it does, you need to try a fresh copy of the image file.

Missing data in the Other info Box is likely a project issue, not a program issue. The .PJC file might be damaged.

Send me the .PJC file so that I can check it.

You can contact me by email by clicking on the link below...

Jim Byram

Follow up - The issue appears to be Gail's custom layout. The Other info box labels appear but there are no values. Changing to a different layout shows the values. 

The Value header and the values were hidden to the right. The header issue and the values issue had to be fixed independently.

Military Service (Military-Service?) is a custom tag type. Try deleting the tag type.

If you can't delete it, I can.

Nothing is corrupted. The issue is that the file cdintf400.dll used by TMG is not properly registered.

The last TMG 9 installer is located here...

Running the installer and selecting [Repair] or uninstalling and reinstalling might fix the .DLL issue.

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My notes say this is the issue. The reinstall was the easy way to try and fix it. Here's the manual way.

Program Error - OLE error code 0x80040154: Class not registered
The error occurs because a file cdintf400.dll used by the PFD driver is not registered.

The file should be located here...

"C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cdintf400.dll"

1) Close TMG

2) If running the Windows 10 or 11 Start menu, right-click on the Start button and select 'Command Prompt (Admin)'.
Alternately, navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select cmd.exe and right-click on it and select 'Run as administrator'.

3) type: "cd \windows\syswow64" (as always, no quotes) (or "cd \windows\system32" for a 32-bit system) and press enter.

4) type: "regsvr32 cdintf400.dll /u" and press enter. You should get a message that it succeeded.

5) press the up arrow and the previous line should be repeated. Hit <Backspace> twice to remove the "/u"
(or type "regsvr32 cdintf400.dll" from scratch) and press enter. You should get another message that it succeeded.

6) Type "Exit" and press Enter to close the window (or click on the X if that works)

Repaired the Living flag values in the C-table (Flags).

That's the Flags window, not the Flag Manager.

Send me the .__C.DBF and __C.FPT files from your project and I'll take a look.

Make a .ZIP archive of the two files and send it.

You can contact me by email by clicking on the link below...

Jim Byram

One of the repeat file databases is corrupted. It happens. Nothing that you can do to prevent that.

With TMG closed, delete the files in the Repeat_files folder.

C:\Users\(your user account name)\Documents\The Master Genealogist v9\Repeat_files

New files will be created the next time that you run TMG.

1. Typically, the file extensions are not displayed on a new Windows installation. You need to enable showing extensions in the File Explorer options.

View / Options / View tab

2. Your TMG exhibits can be located wherever you choose.

Use File Explorer to move the exhibits to your chosen location.

Run TMG and use File / Maintenance / Validate File Integrity to relink the exhibits. (This only works if each exhibit file has a unique name.)

The problem was that the layout was corrupted? If so, you could have deleted the layout from within TMG.

The app.ini and layouts are located here...

"C:\Users\(user account name)\AppData\Roaming\The Master Genealogist v9"

There was no point deleting the user data folder in Documents since nothing in that folder has anything to do with the program installation.