Thank you Charlie for all the information. When I get to the place where I have to scroll down the list, I don't find FTM GEDCOM file. This is what is there: FTM Family File, FTW Backup File, FTW Compact Backup File, FTW Family File, FTW Gedcom File. What does FTW mean. What FTM means (to me) is Family Tree Maker. So anyway I didn't go any further because that certain file wasn't there. Any other suggestions? :-) Thanks so much. Echo At 09:40 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Charlie wrote: >Echo, > >There are a couple of possibilities.... > >First, do you still use FTM, even occasionally? If yes, the you need >to know that even if you change the "association" in Windows to >something other than FTM, FTM will "reset" that association to FTM >every time you start up FTM. This has been a complaint about FTM for >as long as I've known about the program. So changing the association >will do nothing to help you with that problem. > >Second, you can still import any GEDCOM into FO from within FO. What >is happening when FTM starts up and then loads the GEDCOM is that you >are double clicking on the GEDCOM file from "My Computer" or Windows >Explorer. You can't get a GEDCOM into FO using this technique. > >Third, if you still want to double click on the GEDCOM, and have some >other program start (I have my computer set up to start MS Word and >then load the GEDCOM into Word), there is a way to do that. On the >possibility that this is what you want to do, I'll list the steps >here: > >Open Windows Explorer and from the menu bar across the top, click on >View >Then click on Folder Options >Then click on File Types >Then scroll down the list until you find FTM GEDCOM File >(Note, it will only be called this if you've run FTM on this computer) >Highlight this and click on the button labeled Edit >In the box labeled Actions there should be the word "Open" >(we'll be adding another action by the following steps) >Click on the box labeled New >In the box that opens up enter START for the new action, and browse to >enter the application used to perform the action. On my system this is >what it looks like: > >"C:\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" > >Close this window, then highlight START and click the button labeled >"Set Default" so this is the action normally performed when you double >click on a file name. > >Close all windows and open Windows Explorer and test to make sure >everything works as you expected. > >I hope this helps... > > >Echo Zornes wrote: > > > > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have used FO > > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to the 9th > > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I installed > > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. 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. I > > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't want to use > > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know how to > > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? > > Thanks ever so much, > > Echo Zornes

that was the corrwct one. FTW is Family Treemaker for Windows. Echo Zornes wrote: > Thank you Charlie for all the information. When I get to the place > where I have to scroll down the list, I don't find FTM GEDCOM file. > This is what is there: FTM Family File, FTW Backup File, FTW Compact > Backup File, FTW Family File, FTW Gedcom File. What does FTW mean. > What FTM means (to me) is Family Tree Maker. So anyway I didn't go > any further because that certain file wasn't there. Any other > suggestions? :-) > > Thanks so much. > Echo > > > At 09:40 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Charlie wrote: > >> Echo, >> >> There are a couple of possibilities.... >> >> First, do you still use FTM, even occasionally? If yes, the you need >> to know that even if you change the "association" in Windows to >> something other than FTM, FTM will "reset" that association to FTM >> every time you start up FTM. This has been a complaint about FTM for >> as long as I've known about the program. So changing the association >> will do nothing to help you with that problem. >> >> Second, you can still import any GEDCOM into FO from within FO. What >> is happening when FTM starts up and then loads the GEDCOM is that you >> are double clicking on the GEDCOM file from "My Computer" or Windows >> Explorer. You can't get a GEDCOM into FO using this technique. >> >> Third, if you still want to double click on the GEDCOM, and have some >> other program start (I have my computer set up to start MS Word and >> then load the GEDCOM into Word), there is a way to do that. On the >> possibility that this is what you want to do, I'll list the steps >> here: >> >> Open Windows Explorer and from the menu bar across the top, click on >> View >> Then click on Folder Options >> Then click on File Types >> Then scroll down the list until you find FTM GEDCOM File >> (Note, it will only be called this if you've run FTM on this computer) >> Highlight this and click on the button labeled Edit >> In the box labeled Actions there should be the word "Open" >> (we'll be adding another action by the following steps) >> Click on the box labeled New >> In the box that opens up enter START for the new action, and browse to >> enter the application used to perform the action. On my system this is >> what it looks like: >> >> "C:\Microsoft Office\Office\Winword.exe" >> >> Close this window, then highlight START and click the button labeled >> "Set Default" so this is the action normally performed when you double >> click on a file name. >> >> Close all windows and open Windows Explorer and test to make sure >> everything works as you expected. >> >> I hope this helps... >> >> >> Echo Zornes wrote: >> > >> > I have subscribed to your list again and I have a problem. I have >> used FO >> > since I started using computers and doing genealogy and I am up to >> the 9th >> > version. In between the 9th ver. and the 2.0 I started with, I >> installed >> > Family Tree Maker, ver. 5. 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. I >> > only put FTM on my computer because my cousin has it and don't >> want to use >> > anything else so I thought I'd put hers on. Would someone know >> how to >> > "fix" my problem as I want FO to be the default genealogy program? >> > Thanks ever so much, >> > Echo Zornes > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All > messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > -- (o o) ------------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------ Mary Stickney (IBSSG) - owner of 6 Rams and 1 ewe MY HOMEPAGES: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=stickneys http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/ my mystery http://www.alltel.net/~ms81250/ http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0058photo.html http://www.genealogy.com/users/r/o/g/Mary-L-Rognessstickney/PHOTO/0057photo.html Surnames: Yerington, Rogness, Wade, Ankles, Sorensen, Overbeck, Jensen, Duncan, Austin, Osborn, Goodall, Baldwin, Pearce, Suiter , Avery , Bill. Covey