I'm the one who asked about making a backup of F.O. to a CD. I can make the copy but then can't open it. I'd like to thank all who tried to help but I STILL CAN'T DO IT. (sorry, didn't mean to yell, I'm just upset.) I copied it to a floppy last night, when I tried to open it I got a page full of icons, one with the green tree, one with FTP extension, and one with DBF extension. Also lots with no extensions that I can tell. IF I click on the gree tree icon I get Codebase error. error #60, then error #90615 opening file file 4 open. I then clck OK and get error #935 and error #94001 Null imput parameter unexpected d4 field. Fatal application. If I click on any of the other icons I get "Windows cannot open this file...needs to know what program created it." I am using F.O. ver. 7.0. I tried someone's suggestion of exporting it as a gedcom to the floppy and that worked - but I got it back as ver. 9.0 which looks totally different and is on a peach colored background. It has a timeline which I like but I can't get a decent ancestor chart, just big box charts or fan charts. Has the original plain and simple working chart - no boxes just lines - been left out of the newer versions? Also I can't seem to get the horizontal chart where you enter the names and than add parents, etc. Is this done differently in ver. 9.0. Help. Someone said to use "restore" but I can't restore ver 7.0 which is the one I use and like. I'm more confused than ever but trying to think positive. Lois _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

You cannot OPEN a backup file. You open Family Origins with no database loaded, or close the database that is open. Then go to the file menu and click on RESTORE. You then get a chance to find the folder that holds the backup file, then you get a chance to select the folder that you want the newly restored backup to be in. Once you do the RESTORE, the backup becomes a regular database, but if you restore in the same folder that your original is in, it will overwrite the original. That is what you want if the original is bad, but if you are just testing a backup, you probably want it restored in a new, empty folder. Maybe the "Saving a NewFile" topic here can help a little: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm The full page of icons that you see when you tried to open the backup must be the database files. Family Origins uses 35 files for one database. The Family Origins backup takes those 35 files and compresses them into one ZIP file which uses much less disk space. If you use a file compression/decompression program, like WinZip or PKZip to uncompress one of these backup files, you will get the original 35 files that make up the database. The only way that you can get a GEDCOM back as version 9 is if you have version 9 on your computer. AND, it sounds like version 9 of Family Tree Maker, not Family Origins. Family Origins will not open a GEDCOM if you double click on it, but FTM will. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Blackburn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: [FO] still a question > I'm the one who asked about making a backup of F.O. to a CD. I can make the > copy but then can't open it. I'd like to thank all who tried to help but I > STILL CAN'T DO IT. (sorry, didn't mean to yell, I'm just upset.) I copied > it to a floppy last night, when I tried to open it I got a page full of > icons, one with the green tree, one with FTP extension, and one with DBF > extension. Also lots with no extensions that I can tell. > > IF I click on the gree tree icon I get Codebase error. error #60, then > error #90615 opening file file 4 open. I then clck OK and get error #935 > and error #94001 Null imput parameter unexpected d4 field. Fatal > application. If I click on any of the other icons I get "Windows cannot > open this file...needs to know what program created it." > > I am using F.O. ver. 7.0. I tried someone's suggestion of exporting it as a > gedcom to the floppy and that worked - but I got it back as ver. 9.0 which > looks totally different and is on a peach colored background. It has a > timeline which I like but I can't get a decent ancestor chart, just big box > charts or fan charts. Has the original plain and simple working chart - no > boxes just lines - been left out of the newer versions? Also I can't seem > to get the horizontal chart where you enter the names and than add parents, > etc. Is this done differently in ver. 9.0. > > Help. Someone said to use "restore" but I can't restore ver 7.0 which is > the one I use and like. I'm more confused than ever but trying to think > positive. > > Lois > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: [email protected] or [email protected] for DIGEST >