Husband tried a few things to make FTM ver 11 (yeah, the old one) be able to recognize and search the FTM SSDI data base from 1) flash drive 2) hard drive. No Joy. Discovered that the file names are identical in the two volume set. Vol 1 being names A-L and Vol 2 being names M-Z. Was able to make copy of each cd onto individual dvd disks, so do not have to worry any longer that handling the old cd rom will make it unusable. Maybe there is no way to tell FTM to look at a flash drive or a folder on hard drive and see it as a cd rom and thereby be able to search it, but if anyone has done this and can explain how it was done, it would sure be helpful. Husband reviewed the FTW.ini file to see what line of code might be altered, but could not see the light at end of tunnel. Thanks to J Okerson for his suggestions earlier, and to Russ Worthington for his comments - one of which was to 'rtfm', but alas my manual is not to be found. If the directions on pg 152 are what I'm looking for, perhaps you could send a scanned copy of the page(s) to me. The above is regarding my request for help on 2/4/15. "2-4-15 I would like to copy the data from FTM cd rom and then be able to search it. I am running FTM11 on a Windows VISTA desktop and a "Windows XP laptop. The data is the SSDI 1937-1993 the 2 volume set called CD #110. Sue A.

Sue, When you insert the Flash Drive into your computer, what is the Drive Letter? Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net ________________________________ From: Sue Alberts via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] How to upload cd - revisited Husband tried a few things to make FTM ver 11 (yeah, the old one) be able to recognize and search the FTM SSDI data base from 1) flash drive 2) hard drive. No Joy. Discovered that the file names are identical in the two volume set. Vol 1 being names A-L and Vol 2 being names M-Z. Was able to make copy of each cd onto individual dvd disks, so do not have to worry any longer that handling the old cd rom will make it unusable. Maybe there is no way to tell FTM to look at a flash drive or a folder on hard drive and see it as a cd rom and thereby be able to search it, but if anyone has done this and can explain how it was done, it would sure be helpful. Husband reviewed the FTW.ini file to see what line of code might be altered, but could not see the light at end of tunnel. Thanks to J Okerson for his suggestions earlier, and to Russ Worthington for his comments - one of which was to 'rtfm', but alas my manual is not to be found. If the directions on pg 152 are what I'm looking for, perhaps you could send a scanned copy of the page(s) to me. The above is regarding my request for help on 2/4/15. "2-4-15 I would like to copy the data from FTM cd rom and then be able to search it. I am running FTM11 on a Windows VISTA desktop and a "Windows XP laptop. The data is the SSDI 1937-1993 the 2 volume set called CD #110.

Both FTM 11 and CD-ROM are old technologies. FTM 11 knows that the SSI Data base requires two CDs; consequently, it looks for separate header information for each CD. The header information for a CD-ROM is completely different from the directory for used for a read/write device such as a flash drive or hard disk drive. That is the reason you cannot simply copy the data base information to a hard disk or to a flash drive and have them read. The only way that you might be able to use a hard disk or flash drive is to make a ISO (CD image) file on a hard disk or Flash drive. You would then have to have Windows "mount" the ISO image as a device. Then Windows treats the Flash drive/hard disk as though it was a CD and FTM 11 might then be able to be read the data base. I have not done this so I'm not certain that it would work but I remember reading about it several years ago. You would need two ISO files - one for each CD. Hope this helps a bit. BJ On 2/13/2015 3:26 PM, Sue Alberts via wrote: > Husband tried a few things to make FTM ver 11 (yeah, the old one) be able > to recognize and search the FTM SSDI data base from 1) flash drive 2) hard > drive. No Joy. > > Discovered that the file names are identical in the two volume set. Vol 1 > being names A-L and Vol 2 being names M-Z. > > Was able to make copy of each cd onto individual dvd disks, so do not have > to worry any longer that handling the old cd rom will make it unusable. > > Maybe there is no way to tell FTM to look at a flash drive or a folder on > hard drive and see it as a cd rom and thereby be able to search it, but if > anyone has done this and can explain how it was done, it would sure be > helpful. Husband reviewed the FTW.ini file to see what line of code might > be altered, but could not see the light at end of tunnel. > Thanks to J Okerson for his suggestions earlier, and to Russ Worthington for > his comments - one of which was to 'rtfm', but alas my manual is not to be > found. If the directions on pg 152 are what I'm looking for, perhaps you > could send a scanned copy of the page(s) to me. > > The above is regarding my request for help on 2/4/15. > "2-4-15 I would like to copy the data from FTM cd rom and then be able to > search it. I am running FTM11 on a Windows VISTA desktop and a "Windows XP > laptop. The data is the SSDI 1937-1993 the 2 volume set called CD #110.