Hello all, Is there a trick to getting a copy of our rather large database from the desktop that runs Win98 to the new laptop that runs WinME? The GEDCOM method hasn't worked at least a half-dozen times! I am open to suggestions and will be very grateful for all assistance. Thank you in advance, Barbara Wright Slidell, Louisiana [email protected] Support our troops. Remember our Veterans. has the extension .jpg and it shows me a thumbnail of the photo when I click on it. The second file has the Acrobat Reader logo, the extension .THU but tells me it can't be opened because it doesn't begin with "%PDF-". I deleted one of the .THU files to see what would happen. It removed the visible photo from tree view but not the one in "scrapbook". I clicked off the "preferred photo", clicked it back on and clicked okay... the photo reappeared so those .THU files must be needed for *some*thing. I really would like to get all the scrapbook photo files out of "My Documents" and into a home of their own, but I don't know how. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, but please, be kind and remember that it's my brother (now living way out in Nevada) who knows about computers. I know about genealogy and entering data. Thank you in advance, Barbara Wright Slidell, Louisiana [email protected] Support our troops. Remember our Veterans.

You haven't told us much except that it isn't working as you expect it to. Did you install FOW 9 from the original CD to the XP computer? Did you copy the patch, or download a new one, and install it? Did you create a new, empty database on the XP computer? Did you go to the File menu, select "GEDCOM" - "import GEDCOM"? Which step didn't go as expected, and how? A better way would be to make a backup of the database on the old computer. Then, after installing FOW 9 and doing the patch, Open FOW, go to the file menu and select RESTORE, point it to the backup file on a floppy or CD and direct it to restore it into the folder of your choice, even create a new one for it. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: [FO] Getting FO 9.02 from Win98 to WinME > Hello all, > Is there a trick to getting a copy of our rather large database from > the desktop that runs Win98 to the new laptop that runs WinME? The GEDCOM > method hasn't worked at least a half-dozen times! I am open to suggestions > and will be very grateful for all assistance. > > Thank you in advance, > > Barbara Wright > Slidell, Louisiana > [email protected] >