Using FTM 2014, is it possible to create an FTM file that only has a limited number of facts in it, such as those related to each individual's name, birth date, and death date? That is, I would like to create a subset version of my FTM database in which all facts beside such things as name, birth date, and death date have been removed. I can't figure out a way to do this in FTM and haven't been able to find a GEDCOM editor providing such a capability. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jim

On 2/27/2014 2:00 AM, Nivard Ovington wrote in reply, in part: > Note in particular :- > > *This feature replaced the email-based Ancestry.com Connection Service, > which has been discontinued.* > > The date of the last update 26th February 2013 fits in with my message > received March 2013 If this is really the case, then 1) Why did my last e-mail communication with ancestry support tell me that it was my spam filter that was discarding the mail sent from ancestry? I will follow-up with the person who replied to my e-mail. and 2) How come at least one person on this list claims to be receiving these notifications still. I will run a private test with this one person. --Barry Finkel Chicago

Hi Barry Yes it is confusing but I wonder if everyone understands the subject being discussed ie do any Ancestry users receive a notification email *to their private inbox* (not the inbox on Ancestry) From the help file on Ancestry Managing Your Messages on Ancestry.com Answer ID 4597 | Published 02/18/2009 07:56 PM | Updated 02/26/2013 05:18 PM What is the message feature and how do I use it? This article discusses the following: Messages feature overview Managing your Messages Messages feature overview The further you follow your family story back in time, the more likely you are to find other members who have ancestors in common with you. The Messages feature is a great way to connect with these people and share discoveries. This feature replaced the email-based Ancestry.com Connection Service, which has been discontinued. The online Messages feature lets you communicate privately with other members. Unless you disclose it, your actual email address will remain private since all communications will take place on Ancestry.com. All members registered with Ancestry.com can view and reply to messages received from others, whether you have a paid membership or not. Paid members can also click on the Contact link for other members they find throughout the site and initiate messages with them. ================ Note in particular :- *This feature replaced the email-based Ancestry.com Connection Service, which has been discontinued.* The date of the last update 26th February 2013 fits in with my message received March 2013 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 26/02/2014 15:12, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > I do not understand what may be happening. > > Nivard Ovington reports that he does not receive ancestry > notifications, and a mail from ancestry Mar 11, 2013? > seems to imply that the notification service has stopped. > I could not find a message from ancestry around that date, > but I may have read it and discarded it.

Lorraine I have replied off list to you as I have added some articles that I have written on the subject since 2009 plus a few screen shots John D -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Derk & Lorraine Sherren Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2014 5:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] v.16 Comment/Location in FTM 2014 Hi John, on January 24th, you wrote: <snip> Now when FTM 2008 was developed the developers decided to correct the "hack" in FTM and added the description field with is the correct place for the comment. But unless you entered your Facts and locations correctly in FTM up to version 16, i.e. Fact/ or Comment/Location when you import your information into FTM 2008 or above, you get Facts and locations mixed in the Places list You can fix these as a once off exercise using the Resolve Place Name Tool in FTM Places or individually right click on them and resolve them. It takes awhile but it is worth it as you have a proper field for descriptions and very consistent Places It took me about a weekend to fix my database with about 6,000 names and I had used the slash delimiter since version 7 for Places but not Facts. It is not worth trying to fix them in FTM 16 before importation, the tools in FTM 2008/09/10/11/12/14 Mac/2/3 are much better. So a once off but worthwhile chore" So I guess there are still some users of FTM 16 or earlier who are still converting their data and probably have never thought about the slash <snip> I finally convinced my girlfriend to upgrade from v.16 to 2014. She has several trees in the 20,000 range and, needless to say, did not use the dash delineator to separate her comments from location. You say this can be done in 2014 as a "once off" - how?? I have one of her trees loaded in my 2014 and did a test run using the "Resolve All Place Names" under "Tools". The program identified 6,600 places, but nowhere is there an option to separate the comment part from the location. I could not see an option to do it manually either. You say "individually right click on them" - where? How do you create a list that is "right-clickable"? My thanks to you, or anyone who can help. Lorraine, in Kingston

I do not understand what may be happening. Nivard Ovington reports that he does not receive ancestry notifications, and a mail from ancestry Mar 11, 2013? seems to imply that the notification service has stopped. I could not find a message from ancestry around that date, but I may have read it and discarded it. Patty Andersen reports: > Yes, it happens occasionally. Maybe once or twice a year. Drew DUBLER reports: > I get at least one month. But some are so vague I have no idea > who they're referring to.? But after a couple exchanges, we > usually are both better inform about our trees. These three reports are contradictory, and they can not each be 100% correct. As some persons have been receiving notifications, ancestry could not have eliminated them, as Nivard Ovington thinks. I have no idea how to pursue this with ancestry. What I did do yesterday was to do a knowledge base search, as someone had suggested. I found an article (I do not remember which one), and at the prompt, "Was this article useful?"" I clicked "No". Then I added some comments in the box that appeared. Maybe someone from ancestry will contact me about my comment. I ran a test yesterday - I sent ancestry mail to two tree owners whom I know and with whom I have communicated in the past. I will send them regular e-mail today to ask if they received any ancestry notification of my mail in their ancestry inbox. One additional item that was not in my original report - When I send internal ancestry mail after seeing an online tree, I am told when the tree owner last logged on. Most of the time it says "over a year ago." But I did receive a reply from a tree owner whose record said "over a year ago"; she said that that info was wrong. And the person from ancestry who replied to my original query said that that "over a year ago" statement is sometimes wrong. Nivard also wrote: > I wonder if that is your problem, ie Ancestry users who simply don't > look at their messages? > I feel sure that at one time I had an email notification for these > internal Ancestry messages but haven't seen one for a long time The first statement is probably true. I have lots of genealogy things on my to-do list, so I am on ancestry almost every day doing research. someone who has placed a small tree on ancestry might not beSdoing active research, and probably does not realize that mail on ancestry should be checked. That is why the ancestry notification mail is IMPORTANT for those doing research. If ancestry has eliminated the notifications (and from the survey results, they have NOT completely eliminated them), then ancestry needs to send mail to its subscribers reminding them to check their ancestry inbox. A few days ago I found an online tree, and the owner userid had a complete name. I did a Google search on that name, and I found a death notice from last June. This is an uncommon name, so I assume that, in this case, the ancestry user has died. But this is not the case for all of the other tree owners who have not responded to my ancestry mails. --Barry Finkel Chicago

Hi John, on January 24th, you wrote: <snip> Now when FTM 2008 was developed the developers decided to correct the "hack" in FTM and added the description field with is the correct place for the comment. But unless you entered your Facts and locations correctly in FTM up to version 16, i.e. Fact/ or Comment/Location when you import your information into FTM 2008 or above, you get Facts and locations mixed in the Places list You can fix these as a once off exercise using the Resolve Place Name Tool in FTM Places or individually right click on them and resolve them. It takes awhile but it is worth it as you have a proper field for descriptions and very consistent Places It took me about a weekend to fix my database with about 6,000 names and I had used the slash delimiter since version 7 for Places but not Facts. It is not worth trying to fix them in FTM 16 before importation, the tools in FTM 2008/09/10/11/12/14 Mac/2/3 are much better. So a once off but worthwhile chore" So I guess there are still some users of FTM 16 or earlier who are still converting their data and probably have never thought about the slash <snip> I finally convinced my girlfriend to upgrade from v.16 to 2014. She has several trees in the 20,000 range and, needless to say, did not use the dash delineator to separate her comments from location. You say this can be done in 2014 as a "once off" - how?? I have one of her trees loaded in my 2014 and did a test run using the "Resolve All Place Names" under "Tools". The program identified 6,600 places, but nowhere is there an option to separate the comment part from the location. I could not see an option to do it manually either. You say "individually right click on them" - where? How do you create a list that is "right-clickable"? My thanks to you, or anyone who can help. Lorraine, in Kingston

Hi Barry Your enquiry has made me look at the message system on my Ancestry home page Frankly I never look at them, the little red letter icon is there minding its own business and I never look at it, or at least not for some months Not having an online tree I don't expect messages that way but now realise the error of my ways as the messages can come from a variety of ways where a user is found on Ancestry (corrections, Trees, notes etc) I wonder if that is your problem, ie Ancestry users who simply don't look at their messages? I feel sure that at one time I had an email notification for these internal Ancestry messages but haven't seen one for a long time The internal system is clunky in the extreme so I can see why some would not use it, even if they did check it I have checked all the various options and all are checked as I think they should be, nowhere can I see an option for email alerts to be enabled to my email address So I am wondering if some bright spark at Ancestry has tweaked the way these internal messages are fed around, ie has removed that email prompt that I think used to exist ==================== A little digging has proved that to be the case, in amongst the messages I had was one dated March (no year would you believe so can only assume it was 2013) The start of it follows Messages Team Mar 11 11:48 PM GMT Introducing a better way to connect with the Ancestry.com Community. Did you know Ancestry.com has the world’s largest online community dedicated to family history? Our members help each other make new discoveries every day. Find others researching your family. Connect privately and conveniently. The further you follow your story back in time, the more likely you are to find other members who have ancestors in common with you. The new Messages feature is a great way to connect with these people. (This feature replaces the email-based Ancestry.com Connection Service, which we’ve now discontinued.) ----------------------- So clearly some berk at Ancestry has thought they would try and keep all messages in house and in the process has made a right pigs ear of it I have just been trying to check the messages I had, I was filing those I had replied to (which in itself was hard to ascertain) after a few goes I could not understand why the number count kept returning to the same as I started with, I found it does not like the go back in the browser but you have to use the onscreen go back to inbox or it reverted to as it was, and of course every time you do that it changes the view to ten messages in view rather than the 50 previously selected, as I said clunky, messages I knew I had replied to where marked as unread, and some messages I had not seen before were marked as read, all very confusing I have now cleared all previous messages so hopefully will see any new ones arriving It would be interesting to know how many Ancestry users actually check their messages ? Another part of that March (2013?) message Find members who can help. All members registered with Ancestry.com can view and reply to messages received from others, whether you have a paid membership or not. Paid members can also click on the Contact link for other members they find throughout the site and initiate contact with them. Clearly if someone registers with Ancestry but does not visit on a regular basis, they will not see those messages and therefore will not reply It seems to me that Ancestry are missing a trick here, if someone has visited Ancestry in the past or has been a subscriber in previous years, if they received a prompt in their email inbox (ie not on Ancestry) some of those would then revisit Ancestry and might even resubscribe if it piqued their curiosity If those same previous users are blissfully unaware of those messages they are unlikely to ever know about them Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/02/2014 02:44, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > On 24/02/2014 14:46, I wrote: > >> >I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. > >> >Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone > >> >seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from > >> >ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail > >> >waiting in your ancestry inbox? I believe that the notifications > >> >are not being sent, but others tell me that my spam filters must be > >> >filtering the mail. I need evidence that the ancestry notifications > >> >are still being sent. The last one I received was in 2012. As a > >> >test last week I sent ancestry mail to a friend, and she did not > >> receive any notification. Another person to whom I sent ancestry > >> mail (in response to an online tree) replied and said that she saw > >> my mail on ancestry, not via an ancestry notification.

I had to right click on the desktop icon, click on Properties/Compatibility/Run this program as administrator. I didn't find an FTM.EXE file, only a FTM.exe.config file which did not lead me to the solution. Now when I open FTM is doesn't show the "allow changes" message. Thanks for the help. Nancy On 2/24/2014 3:27 PM, Peter wrote: > This message will pop up in a window if the file has been set to run as > Administrator. If you remove this requirement it will open normally. > To remove this, right click on the FTM.EXE file in the FTM 2011folder on > your C Drive. Select properties, click on the compatibility tab, untick > the box next to "Run this program as an administrator" > > All done. > > > On 25/02/2014 7:06 AM, Nancy wrote: >> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: >> >> ================================================= >> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown >> publisher to make changes to this computer? >> Program name FTM.exe >> Publisher Unknown >> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer >> ================================================= >> >> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an >> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. >> I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. >> >> Nancy >> ********************************** >> List information page >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >> >> Version 2008 - 2012 >> http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I get at least one month. But some are so vague I have no idea who they're referring to.  But after a couple exchanges, we usually are both better inform about our trees.   Drew Cold Spring, Putnam Co., NY O|||||||O Modeling the New York Central in N Scale and Trainz Backyard Birding & Gardening in the New York Hudson Valley Genealogy HERLIHY, GOULDING, & LENT, LYNT, van LENT Homepage: http://drucifer.net/index.html

This message will pop up in a window if the file has been set to run as Administrator. If you remove this requirement it will open normally. To remove this, right click on the FTM.EXE file in the FTM 2011folder on your C Drive. Select properties, click on the compatibility tab, untick the box next to "Run this program as an administrator" All done. On 25/02/2014 7:06 AM, Nancy wrote: > When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: > > ================================================= > Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown > publisher to make changes to this computer? > Program name FTM.exe > Publisher Unknown > File Origin Hard Drive on this computer > ================================================= > > I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an > XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. > I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. > > Nancy > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Yes, it happens occasionally. Maybe once or twice a year. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Randy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/24/2014 6:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > From: "Barry S. Finkel"<[email protected]> > > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Ancestry Mail Notification > > To:[email protected] > > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. > > Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone > > seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from > > ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail > > waiting in your ancestry inbox? > > I've _never_ gotten notifications and I have everything set public, yes > to "email me". > I am on everyday, so I see them up top where the little envelope is. > > Randy > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Patty bookswomansd (librarian at a sci/tech institution) "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." Will Rogers Check out my books on Goodreads: <a href=" http://www.goodreads.com/profile/bookswoman?utm_source=email_widget"> http://www.goodreads.com/profile/bookswoman</a>

It still comes from your operating system. You can change it in the Control Panel - not to ask. Ole 2014-02-24 21:16 GMT+01:00 Nancy <[email protected]>: > Only FTM asks this. > > Nancy > > On 2/24/2014 2:12 PM, Ole P. Bielefeldt wrote: > > It is a "safety precation" from your new operating system. > > > > It is the same for all programs you start. > > > > Ole > > > > > > 2014-02-24 21:06 GMT+01:00 Nancy<[email protected]>: > > > >> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: > >> > >> ================================================= > >> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown > >> publisher to make changes to this computer? > >> Program name FTM.exe > >> Publisher Unknown > >> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer > >> ================================================= > >> > >> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an > >> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. > >> I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. > >> > >> Nancy > >> ********************************** > >> List information page > >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > >> > >> Version 2008 - 2012 > >> http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ole P. Bielefeldt www.familytreemaker.dk

It is a "safety precation" from your new operating system. It is the same for all programs you start. Ole 2014-02-24 21:06 GMT+01:00 Nancy <[email protected]>: > When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: > > ================================================= > Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown > publisher to make changes to this computer? > Program name FTM.exe > Publisher Unknown > File Origin Hard Drive on this computer > ================================================= > > I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an > XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. > I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. > > Nancy > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Ole P. Bielefeldt www.familytreemaker.dk

On 2/24/2014 6:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > From: Nancy<[email protected]> > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Question About Opening FTM 2011 > To:[email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: > > ================================================= > Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown > publisher to make changes to this computer? > Program name FTM.exe > Publisher Unknown > File Origin Hard Drive on this computer > ================================================= > > I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an > XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. > I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. > > Nancy I am also using Windows 7 and it never asks "Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?" I am using FTM v16 and FTM 2014 Randy

On 2/24/2014 6:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: > From: "Barry S. Finkel"<[email protected]> > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Ancestry Mail Notification > To:[email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. > Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone > seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from > ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail > waiting in your ancestry inbox? I've _never_ gotten notifications and I have everything set public, yes to "email me". I am on everyday, so I see them up top where the little envelope is. Randy

On 24/02/2014 14:46, I wrote: >> >I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. >> >Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone >> >seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from >> >ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail >> >waiting in your ancestry inbox? I believe that the notifications >> >are not being sent, but others tell me that my spam filters must be >> >filtering the mail. I need evidence that the ancestry notifications >> >are still being sent. The last one I received was in 2012. As a >> >test last week I sent ancestry mail to a friend, and she did not >> receive any notification. Another person to whom I sent ancestry >> mail (in response to an online tree) replied and said that she saw >> my mail on ancestry, not via an ancestry notification. >> >> The reason I ask is simple. I look on ancestry and I see a tree that >> contains persons who are also in my tree. I then send ancestry mail >> to the tree owner, and 90+% of the time I get no response. I assume >> that people put their trees online so that they can get comments >> from persons who view the online trees. My contention is that these >> people are not ignoring my mail; they just are not in the habit of >> logging on to ancestry regularly to check for ancestry mail. And >> without a notification from ancestry, they have no idea that they >> have mail in their ancestry inbox. On 2/24/2014 5:15 PM, Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> replied: > Hi Barry > > I can't vouch for the workings of Ancestry internal email systems but > you are perhaps assuming to much > > ie that those who put their tree online actually keep up an interest > > I have rarely received a reply from people with trees online , Ancestry > or other sites, when you check you will often find these people have not > accessed their trees for over 12 months > > In other words they try some research, enter a tree, lose interest, > change email address etc etc > > If you let me know one of your more unusual names I can try and find it > and send you a message as a tester > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) I do not have a tree online, so I am not sure how to find me on ancestry to try a message. My userid is finkelb, and I just changed my e-mail address to [email protected], which is my regular e-mail address. The address I used when I first joined ancestry, [email protected], forwards to my att.net mailbox. There was no spam in my account at ACM, but I do not trust the Postini spam filters used at ACM. Now, since I have full access to my spam folder at att.net, I can see if any ancestry mail is flagged as spam and not available via my Thunderbird IMAP4 connection to my att mailbox. ====== [email protected] replied: > No, I get messages from ancestry about on-line messages regularly. This implies that some ancestry notifications are being sent. ====== BJ <[email protected]> replied: > I have had a number of messages posted to my Ancestry.com subscriber > account but I don't remember ever receiving an email notification. I > normally notice these as "new messages" count on FTM 2014's Plan work > area in the Dashboard area. > > I just looked at Ancestry.com Knowledge Base where it describes the > different options for how to contact members. This may explain why > some receive email notifications while others such as yourself and > me do > not. I've copied the information below. As you can see, I exercise > the first option and don't receive any email notifications. I checked my account settings, and I have the middle box checked "Display my email address to other members." But this setting is for cases where people find my info on ancestry and want to contact me. I have no content on ancestry (except for a skeleton tree with me and my father). If someone had checked the third option - "Do not allow other members to contact me" - and I found that person's tree online, would ancestry allow me to contact that person? Or would ancestry tell me that the tree owner does not want to be contacted? I hope the latter, but I will have to try to run a test. ====== And "Earl Bonneau" <[email protected]> replied: >I've just noticed last week that I have not received any e-mail > notifications when queries were posted either. This is what I think is happening in some cases. As I wrote in my original post, I really need to talk to someone who has access to the outbound ancestry mail logs to be able to verify if notification mail is being sent to me. And the e-mail I received from my posting on the ancestry forum "Notification of new Ancestry email" stated, "... seems some people receive them but some people don't. Not sure if it's an Ancestry issue, or mail servers rejecting Ancestry messages because they look like spam, etc. ..." I contend that it is an ancestry issue, but I am not sure how to get to the proper person within the ancestry support staff. When I see an error on a census record transcription, I input a correction, and I do get the ancestry mail thanking me for making the correction. So I do get some mail from ancestry. And I cannot believe that the regular notification mail from ancestry could be treated as spam regularly. Maybe there is a setting that controls this, and no one knows what the setting is. --Barry Finkel Chicago

Peter provided the answer. I just checked this with FTM 2012 and Windows 8. I changed FTM.exe to be compatible with Windows 7 and to run as Administrator. I then attempted to run FTM 2012 and received the same message you did. I removed the option to run as administrator and it opened without the message. In case you didn't see Peter's message, I've pasted his comments below. BJ Peter wrote: This message will pop up in a window if the file has been set to run as Administrator. If you remove this requirement it will open normally. To remove this, right click on the FTM.EXE file in the FTM 2011folder on your C Drive. Select properties, click on the compatibility tab, untick the box next to "Run this program as an administrator" All done. On 2/24/2014 3:22 PM, Nancy wrote: > The file is in the Documents Library. I did a normal installation of > FTM 2011. I accepted everything the program did - i.e. I did not change > any folder locations, etc. No other program has this problem. > > > > On 2/24/2014 12:06 PM, Nancy wrote: >>> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: >>> >>> ================================================= >>> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown >>> publisher to make changes to this computer? >>> Program name FTM.exe >>> Publisher Unknown >>> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer >>> ================================================= >>> >>> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an >>> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes.

The file is in the Documents Library. I did a normal installation of FTM 2011. I accepted everything the program did - i.e. I did not change any folder locations, etc. No other program has this problem. Nancy On 2/24/2014 3:02 PM, BJ wrote: > I'm not sure why you are seeing this as I've never seen this when FTM is > opening a file. As others have said, it is from the operating system > not FTM. It normally occurs anything a program is making a change to > the operating system such as updating or installing a program. > > Where is you file stored? If the data file is stored in a subfolder > under C:\Programs, this is probably the cause. Windows 7 uses the > C:\Program folder for executable applications. If the data file is in > that folder, it thinks you are attempting to change an application. If > this is happening, the best way of correcting this is to > > 1. Use FTM 2011 to make a backup of the data files including all media > items. > 2. Create a new folder either separately or if you want under the > C:\Documents folder. I suggest a folder named C:\Documents\FTM Data. > 3. Use FTM 2011 to restore the backup file to this new folder. This > will ensure the links to the media items are changed to the new folder. > 4. Once you have ensured the new file is working and correct, you can > use FTM 2011 to delete the old data file and remove the link from > the Tree list on the Plan work area. > > That is the only thing I can think of which may be causing this message. > > BJ > > On 2/24/2014 12:06 PM, Nancy wrote: >> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: >> >> ================================================= >> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown >> publisher to make changes to this computer? >> Program name FTM.exe >> Publisher Unknown >> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer >> ================================================= >> >> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an >> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. >> I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's the only message I get like this. Strange. Nancy On 2/24/2014 2:38 PM, Arnie-Krause wrote: > This is caused by the fact that FTM has not bought and paid for the proper > Authentication. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arnold E. Krause > 1611 Arlington Ave., > Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 > Tel: (306) 374-3348 > email address: [email protected] > Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ole P. Bielefeldt > Sent: 24 February, 2014 2:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Question About Opening FTM 2011 > > It is a "safety precation" from your new operating system. > > It is the same for all programs you start. > > Ole > > > 2014-02-24 21:06 GMT+01:00 Nancy<[email protected]>: > >> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: >> >> ================================================= >> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher >> to make changes to this computer? >> Program name FTM.exe >> Publisher Unknown >> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer >> ================================================= >> >> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, an >> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. >> I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. >> >> Nancy >> ********************************** >> List information page >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >> >> Version 2008 - 2012 >> http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > -- > Ole P. Bielefeldt > www.familytreemaker.dk > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

No, I've not had any update notices. Nancy On 2/24/2014 2:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Is this in response to an Update notice? > > > In a message dated 2/24/2014 3:16:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Only FTM asks this. > > Nancy > > On 2/24/2014 2:12 PM, Ole P. Bielefeldt wrote: >> It is a "safety precation" from your new operating system. >> >> It is the same for all programs you start. >> >> Ole >> >> >> 2014-02-24 21:06 GMT+01:00 Nancy<[email protected]>: >> >>> When I open FTM on my laptop computer (Windows 7) it always asks this: >>> >>> ================================================= >>> Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown >>> publisher to make changes to this computer? >>> Program name FTM.exe >>> Publisher Unknown >>> File Origin Hard Drive on this computer >>> ================================================= >>> >>> I'm wondering what this is. It never asked this on my old computer, > an >>> XP. If I say no, I can't access the program; so I have to say yes. >>> I'm using the icon on the desktop to log on. >>> >>> Nancy >>> ********************************** >>> List information page >>> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html >>> >>> Version 2008 - 2012 >>> http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message