jonsaunders

Followed the steps to backup up project in v6 and restore it in v7, but then get the V7 message "The project is from TMG version 5 or 6...." and tells me to back up in 6 and restore in 7. Which is what I just did. Why isn't v7 converting the data during the restore? P.S. My v6 project data is in a nonstandard location when I make the v6 backup. Does that make any difference?

"On Step 4 of the Restore Wizard, you can see exactly what is being restored and can unselect anything except the three items that I suggested that you try. You still need to try restoring just the project files, accents and filters and see if the project is updated." Following this advise got me a successful conversion (in about an hour), including my custom layout, minus my custom tool bar, which I rebuilt.

path=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\The Master Genealogist v7\Projects\Saunders backup file size=25,122kb (118,660 individuals) I am not familiar with the restore process as this is the first occasion I have had to use it. So I don't know how to answer your question on what I am restoring. I just follow the prompts and default settings until it starts to go. Isn't that how it should work for a new user? [if the file size doesn't sound like a new user, the first 114,000 or so names were entered in Generation Family Tree until it crashed and burned a year ago. I am still recovering from the painful import from gedcom during that event.]

I have been through the restore process three times so far, including a reinstall of v7. Same result each time.

Being a debugger and beta tester by history, my guess is that the V7 restore routine is taking an incomplete look at the data path of the V6 files, concluding it is a V7 data path, and isn't invoking the data conversion utility. [shame on the restore programmer for taking a short cut in deciding whether or not to invoke the data converter?] But when V7 later goes to open the files, it recognizes them as pre-V7. I will probably have to move my V6 project files back to a standard V6 location and than make the back up. The V7 restore utility will then recognize the backup data as pre-v7 and invoke the conversion utility. Anybody concur?

In v6 I implemented a project storage philosophy similar to v7 in that my project files are in a folder \my documents\tmg. The backup .sqz file is in hard disk d:\tmg\backups. V7 seems to read the backup file just fine, it is populating the target v7 project directory with data files that look to be the right names and sizes, except that the files are carrying the date and time stamps as of the time they were last updated in v6. They don't seem to be getting converted to the v7 format during the restore.

What tag are people using to show the topic relationship? The situation is becoming more common all the time, and the associated indivduals ane having children more often as well. I had someone get upset when I used the marriage tag, but I can't find another tag that accomplishes the same effect. I need a tag that functions just like the marriage tag but doesn't say married in the gedcom export. More like "unmarriage".

When I export and upload to RootsWeb, I want both married and unmarried "partners" to show up in the same manner e.g. Individual's Name Marriage Partner's Name Childrens' names Unmarried Partner's Name Childrens' names It sounds as though the Partners tag documented above, will do the trick. I reached the same end-point earlier today through some experimenting with a different tag name, but I like Partners better. Next I'll have to refresh my tree on RootsWeb to see if it works.

This topic has probably been addressed before, but I could not find it with a search. TMG appears to, by default, export children within a family in record number sequence rather than birth date sequence. How can I change this default behavior to export children in birth date sequence? Or is this not an export issue, but an import issue of the receiving program, RootsWeb in my case?

I'm looking for the correct tag to use thay implies joining, participation, or membership in a group or organization. I thought that Assosiation would be the right tag to use, but it doesn't seem to make the upload to RootsWeb successfully. What tag do people use for this purpose?

I think I figured it out. I just made up my own tag, called it Member, and will export it to the GEDCOM as 1 EVEN, 2 TYPE Member. Please forgive me for asking "newbie" questions, I've only been using TMG for two weeks after my previous package, Generations Family Tree, crashed and burned.

How do I stop the ABBR records from being output to a GEDCOM export file? The Source Abbrevation field is an internal field to TMG and is not relevant to other users, especially when uploading to RootsWeb and the like. I really don't need the world to see how I have chosen to abbreviate a source title to make it easy for me to locate in TMG. Plus redundant the Abbrebiated Title just clutters up the RootsWeb display.

I fully support this request. I have used Generations Tree File for the past 7 years and have relied on this feature extensively to save keystrokes, avoid typos, avoid spelling errors, insure consistency. I am really lost without it.