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    Those are all permissions issues. You don't have permission to access your own Documents folder. <g>

    From File Explorer, right-click on the 'The Master Genealogist v9' folder in the Documents folder. Unselect the Read-only attribute. That alone might work.

    Also try this... Run TMG as administrator and try a backup. Right-click on the TMG shortcut and select 'Run as administrator.' Respond to the UAC prompt affirmatively. Open your project and try a backup.

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    The usual solution is to backup to your main disk drive and to the default backup folder. The ancient .ZIP library is very fussy about where it will write the backup. You can always copy the backup, after making it, to another folder or drive if necessary. You should never back up directly to any folder used by a syncing utility such as One Drive or Dropbox or to a network location. It's also possible that some external application (anti-virus, anti-malware, syncing, backup) is interfering with the backup process.

    It is possible that this issue can't be resolved. That's very rare but has happened for a user or two.

    You can always make a manual backup by making a ZIP archive of the 48 project files (29 .DBF files, 1 .PJC file and 18 .FPT files) and naming it appropriately. That archive would also need to be restored manually by unzipping it into the folder where that project is stored.

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    You can filter the Project Explorer for the 'Last Edited Date' to get a list of people's names who have been edited since a specified date.

    How a date displays has nothing to do with how it's stored in the database. Dates are stored in a standard format and can be displayed in many formats.

    Check Michael's bug list under 'Data Entry' to see if any of the date issues might apply to your problem.

    https://www.mjh-nm.net/BUGS.HTML#TOCDataEntry

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    With the new project open...

    File / Preferences / Current Project Options / Other

    Select Automatic "Relation" tag
    Enter "1" in the Focus person field
    Make sure the 'or the spouse' option is not selected if you don't want this
    Click [Refresh relationships]

    That's it.

    (edited to make the focus person #1)

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    No. You have three tools to build a group of people.

    1) the Focus Group

    You can add a person or people to a focus group individually and then use the Focus Group to add ancestors, descendants, and spouses. This is the easiest way. Just keep in mind that the additions occur for the selected person/people. Be sure to make the selection correctly before making additions.

    2) the Project Explorer

    You use the Project Explorer and its filters and add the selections to a focus group. This can be done in multiple steps to add people.

    3) the List of People report and its filters to set a flag. Again, this can be done in steps.

    The end results of all of the above is a group of people in the Focus Group or with a given flag and you can export the group based on either.

    The best way to proceed depends on exactly how you want to group to be specified. 

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    I do an image backup of all drives on the computer to an external hard drive once a week. All is done as specified in one Backup  Definition File and one backup file of everything is created.

    It is simple to mount a drive from a backup file to recover any folder or file that is in the backup image.

    The Macrium Reflect UI Watcher runs in the background all of the time. That is used to prevent deleting backups except from within Macrium Reflect.

    There is no real time backup process going on so the program has no effect on running TMG or on TMG data (other than backing up).

    I used Acronis but got irritated at how it backed up the Windows partition on my iMac. Acronis took about 3.5 hours. Reflect took about 30 minutes. The backup was the same data in both cases. I still use Acronis on my wife's two computers. btw... I never had any issue with TMG using Acronis.

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    You need to enter your registration twice... once running as a Standard user and once running TMG as administrator.

    Run TMG normally and enter your registration information. Exit.

    Run TMG by right-clicking on the shortcut and selecting 'Run as administrator'. Respond affirmatively to the security prompt. Enter your registration information and exit afterwards.

    Then use TMG by running normally.

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    A TMG project database consists of 48 files. 

    1 .PJC file

29 .DBF files

18 .FPT files

    The project can be recovered only if you can retrieve all 48 files.

    A single file is of little value although some useful things could be done.

    You could recover the _$.DBF file (the person table) and open it and sort by the user ID (the 6th column). When those user IDs are compared to the person table from a backup, you could determine how many people have been added since the backup.

    You could then use the person ID (the 1st column) for those missing people to recover the names of the missing people from the _N.DBF file (the name table) assuming that it was recovered.

    This is considerable work and not something undertaken without proper tools although these steps could be accomplished using Excel. Ultimately, you would still need to add all of the missing data to the project backup that you restored going person-by-person from the sources as was originally done.

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