Thanks Mike Understanding the problem is halfway to a solution!! I'll have a play over the weekend Regards John Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Nov 2015, at 08:00, family-historian-users-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Family Historian V6 and gensmarts (John) > 2. Re: Family Historian V6 and gensmarts (Beryl & Mike Tate) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:38:02 +0000 > From: John <johnfirr@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [FHU] Family Historian V6 and gensmarts > To: " family-historian-users@rootsweb.com" > <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <64294.57491.bm@smtp129.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi I wonder if there are any Gensmarts users out there? Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have posted on the Gensmarts user forum which is only used sporadically these days. > > I am no expert but have been using gensmarts alongside Family Historian for quite a while and have found it to be a useful tool. > > However I recently upgraded my laptop to both FH6 and Windows 10 and now find that I cannot get Gensmarts to load my FH project file ( I have saved it in Gedcom format). It wont find it on an automatic search and wont open it if I point to it manually. I have never had the problem before. > > Issue is that because I did the two upgrades at the same time I have no idea if the compatibility issue lies with FH6 or Windows 10 and just wondered if anyone else had similar issues? > > As I said at start I apologise if this is a bit off topic so mods feel free to take the post down if I have broken any forum rules. > Thanks > John > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:15:18 +0000 > From: Beryl & Mike Tate <post@tatewise.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [FHU] Family Historian V6 and gensmarts > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <rrr6ox3dxobncmsnd1339odg.1448572518145@email.android.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > John, this is due to a change in FH V6 to support UNICODE characters. The Gedcom file is now encoded in UTF-16 format. > > The bad news is that many other products do not support UTF-16. > > The good news is that the "Export Gedcom File" Plugin offers many options to cater for such things and minimise loss of data due the different Gedcom dialects used by different products. > > There is much more information on this topic in the FHUG web site. > > Regards, Mike Tate > > Sent from my Hudl > > John via <family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Hi I wonder if there are any Gensmarts users out there? Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have posted on the Gensmarts user forum which is only used sporadically these days. >> >> I am no expert but have been using gensmarts alongside Family Historian for quite a while and have found it to be a useful tool. >> >> However I recently upgraded my laptop to both FH6 and Windows 10 and now find that I cannot get Gensmarts to load my FH project file ( I have saved it in Gedcom format). It wont find it on an automatic search and wont open it if I point to it manually. I have never had the problem before. >> >> Issue is that because I did the two upgrades at the same time I have no idea if the compatibility issue lies with FH6 or Windows 10 and just wondered if anyone else had similar issues? >> >> As I said at start I apologise if this is a bit off topic so mods feel free to take the post down if I have broken any forum rules. >> Thanks >> John >> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 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 10, Issue 260 > *******************************************************