Unfortunately you have stumbled upon one of the foibles of syncing. Currently there is no way to reestablish a link between the two trees once it has been severed. I would suggest you bite the bullet and upload the tree a second time. As you correctly surmise you will need to reissue your invitations which while may be a bit embarrassing at least gets you to going again. Besides accepting an invitation isn't to hard to do. You also need to delete the old AMT tree. Since the link is severed, you have to do that online using the AMT's Manage Tree feature. I'm faced with the same problem but for a different reason. While I don't like it, I suspect it is simply too difficult to reestablish the sync because the program has no way to guarantee the two trees contain the same data. It is easier to upload afresh than to try to compare the two trees asking the the owner to confirm all differences between them. I'm sure that isn't the answer you wanted. BJ On 10/28/2011 4:16 AM, Lenny Zimmermann wrote: > I send a message to tech support over the weekend about this but they > still haven't responded, so I figured I might try here and see if you > folks have some ideas. Recently I was cleaning up some other tree files > I've been working with and in the process I have my main tree running on > the system. When I selected a different tree from the "Plan" tab and > deleted it, after a short while FTM2012 crashed. When I restarted the > program the tree I had selected was successfully deleted, but my main > tree was no longer synced with Ancestry.com for some reason. > > I would like to resync those trees back up. The only methods I can think > of would be to either download the Ancestry tree to sync as a new tree > in FTM2012 (which I believe will lose some of my custom source > information and will definitely lose all of my event notes) or I can > just upload the tree again to Ancestry, but then I have to resend all of > the invites again to the online tree (very annoying not just for me, but > for everyone I already sent the invite to less than a month ago telling > them it would be the last time I would need to annoy them with a > friggin' invite!) Neither of those options is particularly appealing to > me. I did try to do an upload and sync to a tree with the exact same > name as my online tree, but instead of syncing to the online tree it > just errors out (presumably because it couldn't create a tree with the > name of an already existing one.) > > Does anyone else happen to have any ideas I might try? Ive got some > updates I'm getting desperate to get uploaded. (And am I going to have > to deal with this every time FTM2012 crashes?) >

This is a strange question but I have no idea and thought you all would be my best resource for correct information. It involves uploading trees. How often should we upload a new tree OR is there a way to simply upload the additions, edits, etc.? I understand that I can make changes to my tree in FTM but I also upload it to Ancestry. I don't have the extra time to make changes in two places, one online and one on my desktop. I don't care to have several trees online so what I've been doing is deleting my old tree and then uploading a new tree. I wondered if uploading a new tree using the same name would overwrite an existing tree. I guess you can deduce I'm still fairly new at this online tree stuff, but so many of my relatives have found the info so helpful, I hate not to keep the most up to date info available to them. Thanks for any input anyone can offer. Sue Martin Pollock Researching Pollock, Martin, Roberson, Hooker, Holt, Teague, Waters and a host of other names

If you are using FTM 2011 for example, maybe once a month or if you have done some significant edits. You have to upload as a new tree. A plea. Please delete your old tree. The AMT is full of obsolete trees where folk have uploaded a new one, but have left the old one there which simply results in additional and unnecessary leaf hints'' If you are using FTM 2012 and plan to use TreeSync, then if you choose automatic sync the tree will sync on loading and closing down or of course you can sync at any time. If you choose manual it is up to you to press the sync now button John D -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sue Pollock Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2011 1:49 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: [FTM-TECH] Online Tree Updates This is a strange question but I have no idea and thought you all would be my best resource for correct information. It involves uploading trees. How often should we upload a new tree OR is there a way to simply upload the additions, edits, etc.? I understand that I can make changes to my tree in FTM but I also upload it to Ancestry. I don't have the extra time to make changes in two places, one online and one on my desktop. I don't care to have several trees online so what I've been doing is deleting my old tree and then uploading a new tree. I wondered if uploading a new tree using the same name would overwrite an existing tree. I guess you can deduce I'm still fairly new at this online tree stuff, but so many of my relatives have found the info so helpful, I hate not to keep the most up to date info available to them.