Hello Wayne, Thank you for responding to my problem. I don't double-click on the gedcom. I go about it like the others have talked about. I know it is the correct way, to have Family Origins open and make a database and then file, gedcom, and import gedcom. Well I don't think I could follow the below instructions as I'm not that good at going into associations but I guess I'll get rid of the FTM one of these days. Maybe put the gedcoms on a Zip Disk or something. Thanks again. Echo At 10:07 PM 6/17/01 -0400, Wayne League wrote: >Echo Zornes <echo70@oz.net> wrote: > > >The problem is when I try to import a gedcom > >into my FO the FTM jumps out and grabs it and puts it in its program. > >Well, FO will not import a gedcom file from your double clicking on >it, even if you did not have FTM on your computer. The way to import >a gedcom file into FO is first open the FO program and then choose to >import the gedcom file from the file menu or the tool bar. > >And as far as FTM claiming that gedcom files belong to it, you can >ignore that, because it is not true and it doesn't mean anything. And >if you want to stop FTM from importing the gedcom file into itself >every time you double click on one and have your computer do something >useful with the gedcom file instead when you double click on it, like >opening it in your text editor, maybe, then go to your folder options, >find the gedcom file type, leave the "open" action alone but add >another with a different name and set up the program that you want to >use it. Then set that new action to be the default instead of the >"open" action. Fortunately, the hardheads at FTM have not made their >program reset the default too. But if they do, you could still right >click on the gedcom file and choose the action you set up for it. > >Every time you merely open the FTM program it is going to reconfigure >the gedcom file type to claim the "open" action for itself and to >"claim" that gedcom files are FTM files in the "type" column of >windows explorer. There is nothing you can do about this, but it does >not mean a thing. It does not interfere with FO's ability to import >gedcom files in the slightest bit. > >Wayne League