>From what I've seen and heard others complain about on the Ancestry FTM board FTM has poor memory management and some leaks. Rosemary On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:53 AM, John Okerson <johnokerson@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a moderate sized file - 131K folks. I try running FTM 2012 with 16 > GB of RAM using Windows 7 Professional SP1. As I go to a variety of facets > of the program, Windows Task Manager reports my memory usage increases. Of > particular problem is Web Search, for I go back and forth between that and > the People workspace, adding folks and their data. Sometimes, if I allow > the program to sit undisturbed - maybe 45 minutes or so, the memory usage > drops to about 50K. I normally start about 400K to 600K usage in People > workspace. This seems to increase gradually to 900K to 1.1 M. If I notice > it, I shutdown and restart FTM as otherwise, FTM will do so on its own, > without notice and NOT so graciously - IOW when I restart FTM I get the you > didn't shut down normally message. I do NOT like having to keep an eye on > the program's memory usage, but seem to have to do so to preserve the > integrity of my dataset. Normally, I would prefer to use the same loading > of FTM for my typical 14 hours of labor. I know, it is an addiction. GRIN > > I have MUCH larger files I would like to use within FTM 2012 - one of 400K > folks and another of 800K folks, but sadly they do NOT open. > > Any ideas would be appreciated? > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

John, You stated "moderate sized file - 131K folks", I do not consider that 131,000 people to be moderate. Anything under 50,000 might be moderate. You also have not stated how large the FTM file itself is, and how much media you have linked to it. As for the 400,000 and 800,000 person files, good luck. What other versions of FTM have you had these files opened with? The memory manager within Windows 7 is different than it is in any of the earlier versions. Generally it will do very well in managing the memory, providing all of the open programs are well written. It will gobble up as much memory as it can for the active program, and give up some when another program needs some more. Just waiting is NOT going to give you any extra RAM, you need to close some of those not in use programs. Can you provide a list of these programs that you normally have open at the same time as FTM? Rosemary, I have NOT had this happen to me at all. It would help, if you were state what version of Windows you are running, how much RAM is installed, how much empty disk space you have and how large your FTM file is and how many people are in it. Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus  ==