You might want to delay purchasing a drive unless it's urgent. The Thailand floods have sent drive prices soaring. A 1TB bare drive was around £40 a few months ago; now they are around £100. Bob

Online backup services look attractive as they seem to need very little thinking effort and most people feel that they do not understand / do not want to understand backup and so they do not want to think about it. A short while ago when I looked at this subject (again) it quickly became clear that although these "services" look a no brainer all of the major players at that time had lost customer data. There was nothing that the customers could do as their data was not guaranteed (read the Ts & Cs). Apart from loss there is the question of "will the data be available when you want it" there are quite a few people involved in supplying and maintaining the pipeline to all that cloudy stuff. If you actually value your data and the access to it, a different approach is needed, for example: Buy a 0.5tb external USB hard drive from PCWorld (less that £50 I expect) "synchronise" your complete machine to this drive and then you have all the data on your PC now stored externally. Do this very regularly - daily. This is not quite enough effort yet because if your C: drive completely dies you cannot restore a working machine from the USB drive to a new empty C: drive. To go the next step you need to use something like Norton Ghost to make "drive images" of all the drives on your PC and store them on the USB drive. Do this regularly - weekly. You can restore a working machine in just a few minutes from these drive images provided that they are up to date. Still not quite enough yet as your PC may completely die and then it is a case of buy a new PC. You probably will not be able to restore your drive images to the new machine because of hardware driver differences Oh dear! Then you are into reinstalling everything but at least you have all your personal data and family history stuff available when the new PC is up and working. To overcome this problem you may want to consider "virtualizing" your entire PC, then you can move the virtual machine anywhere you like and you immediately have your "normal" environment available. You do have to back this VM up as well, bother. If you are storing "stuff" locally on an external USB drive you are not protected against a home fire or flood so you need to keep a copy of the data at the house of a local friend. Oh dear what a lot of thinking! Sorry there is no escape from it. You have only got a good backup strategy if you have the courage to reformat all the drives on your PC (pretty final) and then restore the machine from your backup. If you have not practised machine recovery you do not know that it will work when you have to do it for real. Hands up all those who have done this practise step please - 5 stars to each of you Sorry about the long lecture but there is no easy solution. It depends on how much you value your work, try and figure out how many hours you have spent on just FH and cost it at the minimum wage and I bet that it far exceeds the cost of your PC. Also talk to someone who has lost all data and get them to tell you about the associated despair and trauma. John C -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Jolly Sent: 29 November 2011 08:20 To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Using iCloud for backing up Family Historian data? No I am not using it but 5Gb doesn't seem to be very much if yo are backing up the whole project, plus other things as well. I use carbonite which is not free but is unlimited and I'm already up to 65 Gb ! It's the same maxim - you get what you pay for! Regards Andrew On 28 Nov 2011, at 23:26, Davies, Roy wrote: > A growing number of people seem to be using Family Historian on Apple Macs (e.g. by installing Parallels and Windows on the Mac). I wonder if anyone is using Apple's iCloud to back up their data? I tried to set it up, apparently successfully, and it tells me I have 5 GB of 5 GB available but that I am not using any storage. I thought that the backups were supposed to be made automatically. > > If anyone is using iCloud storage for backing up their genealogical data I'd be pleased if they could tell me if there is a crucial step that I have overlooked. > > Regards, > > Roy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Although I use a Mac I also use Carbonite, if only because iCloud has only just appeared. You can buy extra space on iCloud if you need it. However I don't see any saving over the cost of Carbonite so I won't be switching Nick Serpell nick.serpell@serpell.org On 29 Nov 2011, at 08:19, Andrew Jolly wrote: > No I am not using it but 5Gb doesn't seem to be very much if yo are backing up the whole project, plus other things as well. > > I use carbonite which is not free but is unlimited and I'm already up to 65 Gb ! It's the same maxim - you get what you pay for! > > Regards > > Andrew > > > On 28 Nov 2011, at 23:26, Davies, Roy wrote: > >> A growing number of people seem to be using Family Historian on Apple Macs (e.g. by installing Parallels and Windows on the Mac). I wonder if anyone is using Apple's iCloud to back up their data? I tried to set it up, apparently successfully, and it tells me I have 5 GB of 5 GB available but that I am not using any storage. I thought that the backups were supposed to be made automatically. >> >> If anyone is using iCloud storage for backing up their genealogical data I'd be pleased if they could tell me if there is a crucial step that I have overlooked. >> >> Regards, >> >> Roy >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

No I am not using it but 5Gb doesn't seem to be very much if yo are backing up the whole project, plus other things as well. I use carbonite which is not free but is unlimited and I'm already up to 65 Gb ! It's the same maxim - you get what you pay for! Regards Andrew On 28 Nov 2011, at 23:26, Davies, Roy wrote: > A growing number of people seem to be using Family Historian on Apple Macs (e.g. by installing Parallels and Windows on the Mac). I wonder if anyone is using Apple's iCloud to back up their data? I tried to set it up, apparently successfully, and it tells me I have 5 GB of 5 GB available but that I am not using any storage. I thought that the backups were supposed to be made automatically. > > If anyone is using iCloud storage for backing up their genealogical data I'd be pleased if they could tell me if there is a crucial step that I have overlooked. > > Regards, > > Roy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A growing number of people seem to be using Family Historian on Apple Macs (e.g. by installing Parallels and Windows on the Mac). I wonder if anyone is using Apple's iCloud to back up their data? I tried to set it up, apparently successfully, and it tells me I have 5 GB of 5 GB available but that I am not using any storage. I thought that the backups were supposed to be made automatically. If anyone is using iCloud storage for backing up their genealogical data I'd be pleased if they could tell me if there is a crucial step that I have overlooked. Regards, Roy

John, Assuming the 'photos' in the 'charts' were derived from 'Multimedia' image files in FH, then it would be best to work from those original image files. If you are not sure where these 'Multimedia' image files are stored, then in FH open the Property Box for an Individual in your Diagram. Click the Multimedia tab, and if necessary select the image, then click the red triangular Open Editor/Player button. Depending on which image viewer is chosen, you should be able to use File >Properties to discover the Location and File name. Alternatively, you may have to use File > Save As to see these details. In any case always press Cancel. In MS Word, you will then be able to use Insert Picture From File to capture the image. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JOHN DARWOOD Sent: 28 November 2011 14:48 To: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Retrieving photos from Saved Charts Help please!   Last year, I produced some Family Tree charts in Diagram Window and saved them.   I'm now very keen to copy the photos from these Saved Charts across to a separate Word doc - can this be done please?  If so, how?   Many thanks     John  

On 28 November 2011 14:47, JOHN DARWOOD <john.darwood@btinternet.com> wrote: > I'm now very keen to copy the photos from these Saved Charts across to a separate Word doc - can this be done please?  If so, how? Do you mean you want to include the diagram in the word document, or are you looking to extract the partial photographs. If it's the face images you want you could simply use a standard report (eg individual summaries) for the people on the charts and save them in rtf format which can be opened in Word. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

Help please!   Last year, I produced some Family Tree charts in Diagram Window and saved them.   I'm now very keen to copy the photos from these Saved Charts across to a separate Word doc - can this be done please?  If so, how?   Many thanks     John  

Dear Jane Many thanks for your response. I understand now where I went wrong when I attempted this procedure. I have found the appropriate directories on my hard drive and will now have a go - I found your instructions very easy to follow - I am absolute rubbish when it comes to help files and manuals; they often seem far too complex and detailed to be readily absorbed by my tiny brain. Thank you againKaren Please visit my Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the-ridouts.com > From: family-historian-users-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 304 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:01:02 -0700 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Adding one tree to another FH4 (Karen Francis) > 2. Re: Adding one tree to another FH4 (Jane Taubman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:46:30 +0000 > From: Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> > Subject: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BAY158-W4718381F4924252E817725B9CD0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Dear All > I am a reasonably long term user of FH4. My project consists of about 860 individuals - my mother's family. Recently I have been researching and compiling a separate tree for my maternal great grandmother's branch. Currently, it consists of roughly 200 individuals. How do I 'stick' the two trees together? The only common individual in both trees is my my maternal great grandmother herself. I have read the help files about merging and comparing but was frankly baffled. When I attempted to do what I thought was suggested, I lost all the links to attached multimedia in the original tree and all the unrelated spouses on the added tree. Clearly I haven't a clue what I am doing! So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable preferably, how I can achieve this? > Many thanksKaren Francis > > > Please visit my Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the-ridouts.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:52:46 +0000 > From: Jane Taubman <janetaubman@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKBTZLqaR0pHH60twsrh8OPjz7M+5ZK2_JFCwghSd_GXC6V4RA@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Assume you main 860 person tree is your master tree and the 200 person > one is the child tree, I am assuming you have projects for both trees > and that your media is stored inside the project. > > 1. Make a copy of your Master Project (as a backup) using the Copy > Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window. > > 2. Copy the contents of the media folder on your child project to your > Master Project media folder using windows, look carefully at the > copies if you are prompted to overwrite any to ensure the files are > actually the same. > > 3. On your Master project select merge compare from the File menu and > select your Child project gedcom from the child project fh_data > folder. > > 4. Work through the merge ensuring any matches on all tabs are correct. > > > On 27 November 2011 18:46, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> wrote: > So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing > multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their > associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the > two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable > preferably, how I can achieve this? > > > -- > Jane. > > Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS list administrator, send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS mailing list, send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 304 > ******************************************************

- no worries, just realised I need to use Basic Record Merge or Branch Merge which can be undone like "any other data change"............. Here goes! Laraine -------------------------------------------------- From: "Laraine Hake" <laraine10@btinternet.com> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 9:06 AM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] Duplicate entries > I have realised that within the 5000+ records in my Alabaster project, I > have one family that is completely duplicated, with some same information > and some extras. I would like to use the Compare and Merge facility but > thought I should try it on a practice file first.............I have more > or > less worked through the Tutorial in Chapter 15........... > Please would you suggest the best method of producing a copy on which to > practise without getting the two confused - I tried to follow step 1 in > your > instructions below but could not find the Copy Project option on the More > Tasks button on the Project window so failed at the first hurdle. > > Many thanks > > Laraine > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jane Taubman" <janetaubman@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:52 AM > To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > >> Assume you main 860 person tree is your master tree and the 200 person >> one is the child tree, I am assuming you have projects for both trees >> and that your media is stored inside the project. >> >> 1. Make a copy of your Master Project (as a backup) using the Copy >> Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window. >> >> 2. Copy the contents of the media folder on your child project to your >> Master Project media folder using windows, look carefully at the >> copies if you are prompted to overwrite any to ensure the files are >> actually the same. >> >> 3. On your Master project select merge compare from the File menu and >> select your Child project gedcom from the child project fh_data >> folder. >> >> 4. Work through the merge ensuring any matches on all tabs are correct. >> >> >> On 27 November 2011 18:46, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing >> multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their >> associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the >> two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable >> preferably, how I can achieve this? >> >> >> -- >> Jane. >> >> Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Multimedia files sometimes cause problems and confusion. In case it helps, here are few suggestions that may help: Keep things as simple as possible. Let FH do as much as possible (hopefully everything). It should be possible to do whatever you need to do relating to multimedia files entirely within Family Historian - at least if you have 4.1. You shouldn't have to 'manually' copy media files into the FH project folder at any point - even if you're merging. You should find that towards the end of the merge process you will be prompted "Copy any linked multimedia into the current project"? FH should handle the links correctly whether you decide to copy them in or not. Jane's advice to Karen Francis in her recent post about merging is probably good for earlier versions of FH, but should not be necessary for 4.1. If you try a merge and after the merge some pictures don't appear (some links are broken), here are some things to consider: (a) If you are merging 2 projects, don't export the GEDCOM file and then merge the exported GEDCOM file. Use the merge command to merge directly from the GEDCOM file located in the project you're merging from (it may take a little digging to find it in the project folder). (b) Check your multimedia links before you merge. If the pictures don't display correctly in that GEDCOM file or project *before* the merge, they won't be OK after the merge either. Simon Orde List Administrator & Family Historian designer

This means you are not running V4.1, you can download the upgrade to V4.1 from http://www.family-historian.co.uk/downloads/latest-free-upgrade On 28 November 2011 09:06, Laraine Hake <laraine10@btinternet.com> wrote: > but could not find the Copy Project option on the More > Tasks button on the Project window so failed at the first hurdle. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

I have realised that within the 5000+ records in my Alabaster project, I have one family that is completely duplicated, with some same information and some extras. I would like to use the Compare and Merge facility but thought I should try it on a practice file first.............I have more or less worked through the Tutorial in Chapter 15........... Please would you suggest the best method of producing a copy on which to practise without getting the two confused - I tried to follow step 1 in your instructions below but could not find the Copy Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window so failed at the first hurdle. Many thanks Laraine -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jane Taubman" <janetaubman@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:52 AM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] Adding one tree to another FH4 > Assume you main 860 person tree is your master tree and the 200 person > one is the child tree, I am assuming you have projects for both trees > and that your media is stored inside the project. > > 1. Make a copy of your Master Project (as a backup) using the Copy > Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window. > > 2. Copy the contents of the media folder on your child project to your > Master Project media folder using windows, look carefully at the > copies if you are prompted to overwrite any to ensure the files are > actually the same. > > 3. On your Master project select merge compare from the File menu and > select your Child project gedcom from the child project fh_data > folder. > > 4. Work through the merge ensuring any matches on all tabs are correct. > > > On 27 November 2011 18:46, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> > wrote: > So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing > multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their > associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the > two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable > preferably, how I can achieve this? > > > -- > Jane. > > Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Assume you main 860 person tree is your master tree and the 200 person one is the child tree, I am assuming you have projects for both trees and that your media is stored inside the project. 1. Make a copy of your Master Project (as a backup) using the Copy Project option on the More Tasks button on the Project window. 2. Copy the contents of the media folder on your child project to your Master Project media folder using windows, look carefully at the copies if you are prompted to overwrite any to ensure the files are actually the same. 3. On your Master project select merge compare from the File menu and select your Child project gedcom from the child project fh_data folder. 4. Work through the merge ensuring any matches on all tabs are correct. On 27 November 2011 18:46, Karen Francis <ranaridibunda@hotmail.com> wrote: So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable preferably, how I can achieve this? -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

Dear All I am a reasonably long term user of FH4. My project consists of about 860 individuals - my mother's family. Recently I have been researching and compiling a separate tree for my maternal great grandmother's branch. Currently, it consists of roughly 200 individuals. How do I 'stick' the two trees together? The only common individual in both trees is my my maternal great grandmother herself. I have read the help files about merging and comparing but was frankly baffled. When I attempted to do what I thought was suggested, I lost all the links to attached multimedia in the original tree and all the unrelated spouses on the added tree. Clearly I haven't a clue what I am doing! So... I wish to expand my original tree, retaining existing multimedia, adding approximately 200 more individuals and their associated multimedia with just one individual in common between the two trees. Please can anyone tell me, in words of one syllable preferably, how I can achieve this? Many thanksKaren Francis Please visit my Ridout family history website and blog at: www.the-ridouts.com

I have at last added an FHUG 'Knowledge Base' article on how to 'Create Work In Progress or Research To Do Lists' that covers all these related techniques. It includes creating the 'To Do' Attribute, customising a Property Box Tab, creating two Queries, and customising a Records Window Column. See http://www.fhug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=how_to:create_work_in_progress_or_research_to_do_lists Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John James Sent: 16 October 2011 20:07 To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Property Box Custom Tab Ed, Might be worthwhile loading these queries onto the FHUG 'Downloads' site; I could see them being useful to others wanting to follow a similar path. Considering it myself, for example ... John _____ From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ed Thomas Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 12:07 PM To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Property Box Custom Tab Great stuff! Cracked it at last! After much experimenting (and posting!) I've created two similar queries: a general one that shows all those individuals with a 'To Do' attribute (regardless of what the 'To Do' is), and a second one that utilises some of Mike's excellent tips and ideas and which allows me to stipulate a specific To Do task (using the GetLabelledFact - now that I understand what it is and what it does!). I tried and considered the suggestion of adding 'To Do' columns to the Record Window. However, I decided against this as I have enough columns showing and didn't want any more. It's a simple but effective idea though. Prior to my original post, I'd also explored the possibility of creating flags for various To Do tasks and incorporating them into one or more named lists. Again, this wasn't quite what I wanted. Now, however, with the two queries and the 'To Do' custom tab, I have exactly what I want and am very pleased with the results. Once again, many thanks to Jane and Mike for the ideas, tips and advice. Your help has been very much appreciated. Thanks also to Simon for producing such a versatile program. FH really is the business. Regards Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What would George Smiley do...? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____ avast! <http://www.avast.com> Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 16/10/2011 Tested on: 16/10/2011 12:13:31 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Mike and Jane. The light has now dawned. Ian -----Original Message----- From: Beryl & Mike Tate Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 8:19 PM To: 'Andrea Kent' ; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Flags The answer is found in Tools > Work with Named Lists and Flags under the Flag Status button. Those marked as 'Always include this flag in flag lists' are recorded in the Flags.fha file. All Flags are also recorded in the GEDCOM .ged file under the 1 _FLGS tag against each Individual. If 'Always include this flag in flag lists' is NOT ticked, then once no Individual has the Flag assigned, then it automatically disappears. Whereas, if 'Always include this flag in flag lists' is ticked, then the Flag continues to be listed even when assigned to no Individuals. Regards, Mike Tate ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Anne Although I did include you in a general thank-you that I posted, I would like to make a point of thanking you more specifically, particularly for detailing the process you go through to get to the actual files...............at least I can now locate them! Unfortunately, I have gone from being absolutely delighted and loving adding photos etc to feeling more than a little swamped by it............and rather pushing it to the back of my mind for now! Never mind. I hope to get there in the end Laraine www.alabaster.org.uk -------------------------------------------------- From: "Anne Cole" <duncalf@one-name.org> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 11:08 AM To: <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help re Media please > Laraine, > > I am absolutely hopeless with files and things and my pictures were in a > mess, so my good friend Anne Algar sorted me out. > > I now go through the following : > Family Historian Projects (accessed from "Documents" - Windows 7) > Duncalf FH > Duncalf FH.fh_data > Media > > In the "Media" folder I have sub folders for BTs CMB, PRs CMB, Poor Law, > Courts, Census etc. and just add new sub folders as I need them. Under > each > sub folder I have separate folders for individual sources i.e. Baps, Mars, > Burials or Removal Orders, Bastardy Examinations etc. I simply save images > into the appropriate folder and link them to the person or family from > there. It also makes it easy for me to find an individual picture if I > want > to do something else with it. I am getting on for 7000 images now that the > Cheshire PRs have come online :-) > > I still have a few images with the X through them, linked before I was > sorted out, but now that I understand how the thing works I can easily > remedy this. Also, I have discovered that if you make any change to the > name > of the image that you are linking to, it will become unlinked, so it is a > good idea to work out what you want to call the images before you start. I > use "Bur Prestbury 1794 PR" for both the image name and the source > citation, > and if I have events for different people in the image I use (1) and (2) > in > the source citation, using the same image for both. I don't care if this > is > the wrong way to do it - it works for me. > > Hope this helps. > > Anne > > > > Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society > > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 > > http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html > > Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index > > http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ > > Lincolnshire Family History Society > > http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family- >> historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Laraine Hake >> Sent: 24 November 2011 08:09 >> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [FHU] Help re Media please >> >> >> >> As a new user of FH, I am having a wonderful time adding photographs. I >> am >> copying each one to the file within FH >> >> However...........this morning, I have some photographs not showing. >> There >> is an Error message "Unable to load objects. Error on file open" I can >> recognise that each of these photographs were stored within the same >> folder >> within FH - it is possible that I had not labelled it >> correctly.........thinking back to yesterday, I could have deleted an >> unlabelled "New Folder" not realising it was in use but that I had not >> labelled it . >> >> My question is: How do I access and look at the structure of the media >> files and folders other than when I am adding new media and it gives me >> the >> choice of where to save it. I have no doubt it is fairly >> obvious............except to me right now! >> >> Many thanks >> >> Laraine Hake >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN- >> USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Yes, that is correct - I have changed the flag status to 'always include' and sure enough I now have all 6 in the flags.fha file.   Regards, Andrea ________________________________ From: Jane Taubman <janetaubman@gmail.com> To: Andrea Kent <andrea.kent@btopenworld.com>; family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011, 20:08 Subject: Re: [FHU] Flags On 25 November 2011 19:57, Andrea Kent <andrea.kent@btopenworld.com> wrote: > C:\Program Data\Calico Pie\Family Historian, which has 3 - Living, Private & Speculative. But in FH, I have 6 - the others for Twin, Never Married, and Died without issue (d.s.p). So where are those held? I think Flags are only in listed in that file if you set them using the Flag status to Always include,  but Family Historian will also list and Flags which also exist in the currently opened project.  So if your project has the flags in it you will see them,  if you open an empty project you will only see the ones listed in the settings file. -- Jane. Jane Taubman | www.rjt.org.uk | www.taubman.org.uk |www.fhug.org.uk

The answer is found in Tools > Work with Named Lists and Flags under the Flag Status button. Those marked as 'Always include this flag in flag lists' are recorded in the Flags.fha file. All Flags are also recorded in the GEDCOM .ged file under the 1 _FLGS tag against each Individual. If 'Always include this flag in flag lists' is NOT ticked, then once no Individual has the Flag assigned, then it automatically disappears. Whereas, if 'Always include this flag in flag lists' is ticked, then the Flag continues to be listed even when assigned to no Individuals. Regards, Mike Tate -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Andrea Kent Sent: 25 November 2011 19:57 To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Flags Stranger and stranger - like Ian, I have also checked my flags.fha files (using Win7), and found 2 copies, one in  C:\Program Files (x86)\Family Historian with 2 flags (this I presume is the base one which comes with the software), and one in  C:\Program Data\Calico Pie\Family Historian, which has 3 - Living, Private & Speculative. But in FH, I have 6 - the others for Twin, Never Married, and Died without issue (d.s.p). So where are those held? Thanks in advance for any light shed on this!   Regards, Andrea ________________________________ From: Ian Thirlwell <fh.thirlwell@ntlworld.com> To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011, 19:20 Subject: Re: [FHU] Flags This thread has prompted me to check my system since it is a while since I created any new flags. The question is where are they all, as I have now forgotten? The Flags.fha file in the folder under ProgramData (Win7) only has three defined: Living, Private and Not Married. Where are all the others, census, BMD etc that show in the list when I want to add one to an individual? Ian -----Original Message----- From: Beryl & Mike Tate Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 6:14 PM To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FHU] Flags Have you inspected the \Calico Pie\Family Historian\Flags\Flags.fha file? Its location depends on Windows operating system. XP is at C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ Vista & 7 at C:\ProgramData\ (BTW this is an important folder to backup regularly.) The Flags.fha file is plain text and should look like: [.index] Count=4 [Flag1] Name=Living Tag=__LIVING [Flag2] Name=Private Tag=__PRIVATE [Flag3] Name=Marriage 1 Tag=__MARRIAGE_1 [Flag4] Name=Marriage 2 Tag=__MARRIAGE_2