As the original contributor to this string, I thank you all for your interest. Here's what I did to try to resolve: On Ira's advice, I downgraded a version. This caused some unusual result, it would not display all my data on the screen even though it did exist. Rebuild did not work. Then, again, on Ira's adivce, I reloaded the complete version. The same thing happened when I tried to view my original data file with 3.2. Then I tried importing my gedcom & that finally worked. Something must have corrupted the database when I downgraded. Here's a warning to you all, DON'T DOWNGRADE! Although I was able to recover, it was hours of wasted time. Ira J Lund wrote: > At 11:01 AM 3/11/01 +0100, you wrote: > >Quoting Chuck Edgerly ([email protected]): > >> I also have a P 120 and the photos load just fine. No delay at all. I am > running > >> Windows 98 2nd edition with all the updates available from misrosoft, > including the > >> new direct X and other graphics patches. Maybe others with slow loading > photos should > >> try downloading these updates. > > > >I would be surprised if CFT uses DirectX libraries. First because the > >development tools for DirectX are certainly not free (hey, this is > >*Microsoft* product...:-)), and also because this is absolutely unuseful > >except for making bloatware. > > > >So, I don't think that patching and re-patchging the operating system will > >make it faster for photos loading. > > > >You will only increase your chances of getting the system unstable...as > >usual when some patch originating from Redmond, WA goes on your hard > >disk...:-) > > > >But (for the original contributor) you're on your own... Try to patch, patch > >and re-patch....and cross your fingers at each reboot, of course! > > If DirectX is something I would have to know about and integrate into my > program then the anser is no, I don't use it. My programming language has > it's own graphic commands and I have no idea how it does it. I simply tell > it where I want to display a picture and the file name of the image. > > Ira > > ------------------------------------------------ > Mr. Ira J. Lund > E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com > > Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043 > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

I'm not sure what you mean by 'downgrade' You tried to read files generated by v__? with program v__? Mike At 18:12 14/03/01 -0800, you wrote: Something must have corrupted the database when I downgraded. >Here's a >warning to you all, DON'T DOWNGRADE! Although I was able to recover, >it was >hours of wasted time. >

At 06:12 PM 3/14/01 -0800, you wrote: >As the original contributor to this string, I thank you all for your interest. >Here's what I did to try to resolve: On Ira's advice, I downgraded a version. >This caused some unusual result, it would not display all my data on the screen >even though it did exist. Rebuild did not work. Then, again, on Ira's adivce, I >reloaded the complete version. The same thing happened when I tried to view my >original data file with 3.2. Then I tried importing my gedcom & that finally >worked. Something must have corrupted the database when I downgraded. Here's a >warning to you all, DON'T DOWNGRADE! Although I was able to recover, it was >hours of wasted time. Now that you mention this, I believe I know what the problem is. You are correct that all your data is in there and just fine. But what has happened is the way things gets displayed on the main Family Group Window changes due to the new "diamond". In 3.06 you can turn these on or off (Database Config). In 3.06 there is also a RESET button for resetting (clearing) this. The program tries to save the format of this window between sessions - and it gets saved internally to the database. Thus, the 3.06 format (when last used) was saved into the database which was then attempted to be opened by 3.05 (earlier version) and things would not look correct. But 3.05 has no reset button to clear this - so this is why a creation of new database and ged import will clear things up. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043