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  1. Importing v4.0d into v7

    If it's a .SQZ backup file, the project should be RESTORED, not imported. Try that. Caution: Any data in the project will be written over. Do you mean your sample project, or the V7 sample project? It should end up with a project with the same name as the .SQZ file after the restore.
  2. Something still sounds twisted. Run a reindex first in this case. Normally run optimize before the verify and again after the verify. If worse comes to worse, you may have to restore your last backup. Backing up at least once a day is a good idea.
  3. Master Tag Type List

    for version 6......
  4. task manager - ctl-alt-delete - Is any other rogue program taking a lot of computer time? Our own rogues may be in the line of descent, but that doesn't count. What about a cleanup and defrag of the hard drive? Once the V7 data has been converted from V6, or even every now and then, it could stand to be optimized/validated/optimized/backed up.
  5. V7

    That's the first I've heard about strings, but tech support does look at these messages. Something isn't right, for sure. I might as well pass along my shingles story. My sister's mother in law had tried several medicines for shingles and nothing seemed to work. One night she grabbed the wrong thing by mistake and it started to have an effect. After several more days (?) of this, they were gone. What was it? Colgate toothpaste ... and you don't need a prescription.
  6. Vietnamese names with accents

    Late news from Microsoft is that they say that VF9 will be the last one and there will be no VF10. The last update for VF9 does not include Unicode either. Somebody, VF10 may appear with Unicode due to "popular demand", meaning y'all. If VF10 does NOT appear, TMG may have a decision to make several years down the road, depending on whether something better comes along. That would also mean that UTF-8 GEDCOMS could be imported directly. For the moment, the workaround is to bring them into wordpad and save them as ASCII.
  7. I think that I'm on to something. It could be that a MEDIUM size project was the cause of all of today's grief with missing memo files and dynazip errors. It has 73,672 people (ID numbers) in it with many duplicates that are being merged as time permits. I tried to do a restore of a SMALL project. It has 1,072 people (ID numbers). It was a standard backup with default compression. I got a lot of messages that . dataset already existed, with a null project name. I said "yes to all" and the restore apparently went with no problem. That was the cleanest copy so far. I don't think that I will even attempt my LARGE project. It has 485,681 persons with many duplicates that are being merged as time permits. It goes slower, because many lines have different source citations.
  8. It appeared to be an undetectable garbling of some files by V6. V7 has better error checking, they say. Anyhow, tech support rejiggered the files. The medium project is restored to V7 and the large project restore is in process. Some other projects are full gedcom downloads, so I will merely redownload in V7 instead of converting, especially if they are newer.
  9. Upgrading

    To make sure, I did an optimize/validate/optimize/backup before trying to restore a 75,000 ID project in V7. I got a missing G memo file. I backed up again in the UNCOMPRESSED mode and still got a missing G memo file when trying a restore. Phil DeSilva is recovering it in the meantime, because something else in there is not quite at 100%. Those WCG guys have been on top of things and wonderful this week.
  10. No, No, No. I hated Microsoft Word so much at work that I retired early. It does what it wants when it wants, regardless of your intent. I certainly don't want TMG to lose its intuitive features. We're using Word Perfect, Lotus Notes and QuattroPro at home in a Microsoft Free Zone. We don't WANT Microsoft Word or Excel files sent to us in a message. grrr. If it's that much of a monopoly, Mickeysoft needs to be broken up. Arrrrgh. It's 9 more months until "Talk Like A Pirate Day".
  11. I am not playing with narrative sentences, but am keeping in direct data mode for SS2. I found a birth record in VA. The official designation for father said, "can't tell who". Another death record had wife died of "old age". For duration of illness, it stated "two weeks". I still haven't figured out another situation there. A child had two birth records iwith the same name listed. These/this were/was not twins. One listed the first wife and the other listed the second wife, and the records were on adjacent lines of the court house ledger. The marriage of the second wife was a month before the birth of the child, and I couldn't find any local death record for the first wife. "Who was the mother?" is still the question. In Texas, I saw several death records in the early 1900s that stated merely, "Mexican" with no name at all for someone that lived his entire life. Sad.
  12. When I tried to clear it using the clear button in the picklist, the full number of people was restored, it changed to surname = blank but still said FILTERED. Later, I exited the project and restarted. I got a box asking whether I wanted to keep the filter. I said no, and the filter cleared. It now says simple picklist with the count.
  13. I have an e-mail going to upload the medium size .SQZ to bvelke as an attachment. The cable modem upload is really struggling, since upload is a lot slower than download. It almost finished the message and started over a couple of times. The computer didn't have enough memory to send up the uncompressed .SQZ so I am trying a compressed .SQZ, which can always be restored and backed up V6 as uncompressed. Let me watch that for a little while. ...I killed it. ------------------------ I uploaded the small file via message manager. That seems to run quickly. medium file upload was successful. large file upload was successful. file names in e-mail to phild and bvelke
  14. This is a different type of file corruption. deleting the .CDX didn't work for me. I also tried moving the UNCOMPRESSED backup to a different hard drive in a directory this time. Restores from the uncompressed backup don't give me missing memo file fix errors, but have some dynazip errors. The N file was also missing in both cases. To be sure, I also copied the backup to a flash drive. That was worse. I got one dynazip error and a "restore failed".
  15. TMG v6 to v7 restore problem

    My account is the same type ... my own, with administrator privilege.
  16. TMG7 limits under Windows X64

    I may have to stay away, now, for the moment. The biggest problem with Win64 is lack of drivers. Many 32 bit drivers and installers out there also have some 16 bit portions (which won't run on Win64 at all). Bad drivers are a chief cause of many blue screen crashes these days. That comes back to where this thread started.
  17. TMG v6 to v7 restore problem

    It expected it to be in Squint1. Were you still logged on as the administrator?
  18. I tried it again. Here is the whole set of messages. Restore finished Creating indexes. Memo file missing or invalid (for each one of these) ...G.FPT 66 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 89 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 90 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 91 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 89 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 90 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 91 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 89 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 90 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 91 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 94 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 95 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 96 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 94 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 95 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 96 FIX-52 ...S.FPT 122 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 123 FIX-52 ...E.FPT 124 FIX-52 After a couple of % building names, I aborted TPG7. This computer running XP has 3 gigabytes of memory available, so that should not be a bottleneck.
  19. TMG7 layout

    Are you doing a custom layout for each census??? The responses are so different for each one that I would think that each should be customized. On the other hand, the later ones not released yet could be useless. There's little family info in there, and they are only samples of the neighborhood, not everyone. I don't really care how many air conditioners they have, either.
  20. This is not something I am doing...but something to think about in this regard. How about if a marriage was annulled? They were married for awhile because there was a wedding date, and then the marriage "did not exist in the first place". What's the timeline for that?? I'd probably treat it like a divorce, anyhow. --------------------- My wife's father was married twice to the same person concurrently. The first wedding was by the courthouse JP to make the marriage legal (I won't sleep with you until we are married kind-of-thing, we think). The next wedding was the fancy-schmancy one that everyone expected with military swords, etc., but they couldn't tell the wedding party that they were already married. The first wedding was secret at the time, but is of record. My wife recently received a copy of both marriage licenses.
  21. TMG7 layout

    This should have been in the V6 section, since my V7 data conversion didn't work. I'm not using V7 yet for real work. I find focus groups very useful when playing with accents. The focus window is designed for looking at ancestors or descendants of a particular person, so an accent level is not needed for that. To quickly find the end of a chain, I have an accent for father unknown. My layout contains the detail screen, focus window and a small flag window (to tell whether male or female, if the name is ambiguous) and a couple of other flags that I might be setting above the focus window. The focus window is a half screen wide and must be nearly a full screen high or it becomes unreadable. The focus window contains my own ancestors. If there is an accent, then it is a direct ancestor with no father. If you click on that person in the focus window, the detail window will go there. I could do another accent for mother unknown to make a conflict accent with both parents unknown. One is sufficient for some uses. I only have a very few with known mother and unknown father. Yes, a pure white background is very tiring. I also set up different color pastels for different projects open at the same time. I'm using the standard picklist of layout names to move between them. I don't want to dedicate any more screen space to something like that.
  22. TMG7 limits under Windows X64

    I don't mean dual boot, necessarily. Vista64 itself should have a partition in which to run 32bit programs. I was thinking about it myself, since my new motherboard and computer (yet unbuilt) has a max of 8 Gb.
  23. This is a pattern seen on many V7 threads. I am missing the memo file myself (projectname_G) plus several others. I could always do it again and write down all dataset names missing with a FIX_nn comment. There were several. I'm not sure that the data is trustworthy, so am continuing to work in V6. The conversion from V6 to V7 is supposed to parcel out pieces-parts of the datasets to different places. It appears as if some parts didn't make it. When whollygenes wakes up this morning, we'll see. Actually, I didn't get that error with the V7 sample project since there was no conversion performed. I got the error with one of my own projects.
  24. In version 6, one good way of fixing normal file corruption errors was to exit and delete all of the projectname*.CDX files (indices). That assumes that the base database files still exist in some form. I tried it for this error. The other indices were recreated, but 66 FIX_52 error is still there. It still seems that one or more of these files is still totally gone, memo file in my case. I was curious about the sample project provided with V7. The indices got created on first access and it come up without problem. I don't know what to check to find out whether all of the data is there or not. Another test might be to backup the V7 sample project to save it for later recovery. Somebody could backup the sample project in V6 and try to convert it to V7. The programmers should be aware of what numbers of records of each type should be there. It's easy enough to check. I have been working this evening in V6. When going to V7, it was recommended to backup any layouts, etc. that one wished to preserve. My large backup had a lot of these missing database errors. I had a newer "quickie" V6 backup of only data, without all of the other things checkmarked on the options box. Well, I still got the same kinds of errors and fixes, with several databases being gone. It is now updating names (why?) and is spending a very long time on it. Something's not ready for prime time. The conversion is taking a lot longer than the first one I tried. After about 1/2 hour of watching it struggle and move the % completion gradually towards 50%, I aborted it. The hard drive used for the V6 backup was being heavily accessed. The volume was inaccessible after the abort, but a reboot fixed it. The hard drive is back.
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