Elizabeth Churchett 0 Report post Posted June 7, 2006 Hello, I have not been able to use TMG for a while (my daughter, who just turned two, requires much attention--if left to her own devices, she'd either crawl up on the rooftop or take everything out of the refrigerator), but I have been keeping up with the upgrades once the list feels comfortable with them. I am now up to date with v6.09, but to my dismay I find that at some point along the way, all of my custom report definitions have disappeared. This is not the fault of TMG--I believe they disappeared during a time last year when I had some serious problems on my Windows box or during a disk defrag during the same time. What I would like to know is if I could get them back from a backup without overwriting my project files? I have added a note here or there so wouldn't want my data to be overwritten by restoring from a backup, but I would love to get back just the report definitions. Is this possible? For example, would choosing "Restore Customizations" bring the report definitions back w/o changing my data? Many thanks, Elizabeth Churchett Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NeilMcD 0 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 Hello, I have not been able to use TMG for a while (my daughter, who just turned two, requires much attention--if left to her own devices, she'd either crawl up on the rooftop or take everything out of the refrigerator), but I have been keeping up with the upgrades once the list feels comfortable with them. I am now up to date with v6.09, but to my dismay I find that at some point along the way, all of my custom report definitions have disappeared. This is not the fault of TMG--I believe they disappeared during a time last year when I had some serious problems on my Windows box or during a disk defrag during the same time. What I would like to know is if I could get them back from a backup without overwriting my project files? I have added a note here or there so wouldn't want my data to be overwritten by restoring from a backup, but I would love to get back just the report definitions. Is this possible? For example, would choosing "Restore Customizations" bring the report definitions back w/o changing my data? Many thanks, Elizabeth Churchett Why don't you restore your backup file to a new project - then copy the report files (*.rpt) to where you want them - then delete the new project. Neil Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elizabeth Churchett 0 Report post Posted June 8, 2006 Neil, Thanks for the reply, and I guess that would probably do exactly what I needed. I am not comfortable with the restore process because I don't have a full understanding of what happens--hence my reluctance, as I don't want to overwrite something that I don't even know I'm overwriting. (Normally I have no fear about messing around with my computer. Just not my genealogy database!) Luckily, after posting here I continued poking around on my box and found a utility in Windows XP that I hadn't seen before. It rebooted my computer and then spent a great deal of time messing around with my drive before bringing Windows back up again. Many bad clusters were isolated, and now not only does everything happen & respond at least ten times faster than before, but also all my report definitions came back. The other reason I posted the question is that I did want to know if one had to reinstall an entire project to get just a few files out. But your response certainly would have addressed my issue. Thanks again. --Elizabeth Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Helmut Leininger 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2006 Neil, Thanks for the reply, and I guess that would probably do exactly what I needed. I am not comfortable with the restore process because I don't have a full understanding of what happens--hence my reluctance, as I don't want to overwrite something that I don't even know I'm overwriting. (Normally I have no fear about messing around with my computer. Just not my genealogy database!) Luckily, after posting here I continued poking around on my box and found a utility in Windows XP that I hadn't seen before. It rebooted my computer and then spent a great deal of time messing around with my drive before bringing Windows back up again. Many bad clusters were isolated, and now not only does everything happen & respond at least ten times faster than before, but also all my report definitions came back. The other reason I posted the question is that I did want to know if one had to reinstall an entire project to get just a few files out. But your response certainly would have addressed my issue. Thanks again. --Elizabeth Hi, Alternatively you could open the backup (.sqz file) with winzip or similar and extract the wanted files (.rpt, maybe .xpt ...)1 Regards Helmut Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
