Arnold: I completely agree - and I suspect there are many more like me "lurking".I have had FTM 16 since the beginning and also have had 2014 since it came out.There is no comparison in ease of use and I keep 2014 only in the chance it may "improve".BJ and John D have valid points but for the average user FTM 16 wins hand down. Jack Hope Message: 4 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:57:20 -0600 From: "Arnie-Krause" <arnie-krause@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM-TECH Digest, Vol 9, Issue 24 To: "'Tom Herson'" <therson@twcny.rr.com>, <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000301d04ed1$62d7ddf0$288799d0$@ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Don't ridicule people!! Just try to use FTM-2014 with over 220,000 individuals and it is completely useless for 90% of what can be handled very nicely by FTM-16 Only when FTM has the capability and speed of FTM-16 will I change to the new version for my data entry. I use FTM-2014 only for searching the databases to see what others have. When FTM-2014 was in Beta test I was asked to join the testing process. The speed of importing a file was terrible. Only after I had uploaded my complete database to FTM was the Dev Group able to see the problem and get the speed up to what FTM-2012 had. It takes 17-18 minutes to import my database from FTM-16 into FTM-2014. FTM-2011 took over 4 hours to do the same thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Arnold E. Krause 1611 Arlington Ave., Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 Tel: 306 374-3348 email address: arnie-krause@shaw.ca Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------
I agree that 16 is so much easier to use than 2014. But the guys who give us most of the advice are experts in 2014 and don't seem to understand the ordinary users' difficulties. I once suggested that there be a beginners 2014 with options to move to intermediate and advanced. That did not go over well with the experts. One of the problems I have is to get the print size large enough to not need to hold a magnifying glass while using 2014. I've tried all the computer adjustments. Nancy On 2/23/2015 9:16 AM, John Hope via wrote: > Arnold: > I completely agree - and I suspect there are many more like me "lurking".I > have had FTM 16 since the beginning and also have had 2014 since it came > out.There is no comparison in ease of use and I keep 2014 only in the chance > it may "improve".BJ and John D have valid points but for the average user > FTM 16 wins hand down. > Jack Hope > > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:57:20 -0600 > From: "Arnie-Krause"<arnie-krause@shaw.ca> > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM-TECH Digest, Vol 9, Issue 24 > To: "'Tom Herson'"<therson@twcny.rr.com>,<ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID:<000301d04ed1$62d7ddf0$288799d0$@ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Don't ridicule people!! Just try to use FTM-2014 with over 220,000 > individuals and it is completely useless for 90% of what can be handled very > nicely by FTM-16 > Only when FTM has the capability and speed of FTM-16 will I change to the > new version for my data entry. I use FTM-2014 only for searching the > databases to see what others have. > When FTM-2014 was in Beta test I was asked to join the testing process. The > speed of importing a file was terrible. Only after I had uploaded my > complete database to FTM was the Dev Group able to see the problem and get > the speed up to what FTM-2012 had. It takes 17-18 minutes to import my > database from FTM-16 into FTM-2014. FTM-2011 took over 4 hours to do the > same thing. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arnold E. Krause > 1611 Arlington Ave., > Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA, S7H 2Y6 > Tel: 306 374-3348 > email address: arnie-krause@shaw.ca > Homepage: http://members.shaw.ca/arnie-krause/index.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > 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