Hello Alfred, Thank you for responding to my problem. I did exactly as you have described below. Never did "double click" on anything, anytime. FTM just took it and put it in its' program and I wanted it in FO. I wouldn't know how to monkey with the associations list, have never done that so will perhaps have to take it to the shop. Thanks again. Echo At 09:26 PM 6/17/01 -0500, Alfred Eller wrote: >Some people are annoyed by the way FTM puts it's name and icon on a GEDCOM >file, but It hurts nothing. > >The only way that Family Origins can use a GEDCOM is to import it from >within Family Origins, using the file menu, GEDCOM - Import GEDCOM. You have >to pull it into the program, you can not click on it and have Family Origins >open it whether the FTM icon and name are on it or not. You *can* double >click on a file with an FOW extension and Family Origins will open and load >that database. But it won't with a GEDCOM. > >As Derick said, you can change the association, but it is a bit tricky, FTM >will come back again if you delete it from the association list. You have to >move it down and add the preferred link above it if I remember right. > >The icon and name do not hurt a thing, except that if you forget and double >click on a GEDCOM file, it will open FTM and show you what is in it. All you >have to do is close FTM. It does not hurt the GEDCOM file a bit. > >Good Luck, >Alfred > >================ >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Echo Zornes" <echo70@oz.net> > > > 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