Thanks for the suggestion, Judy. Unfortunately, this did not fix the problem either. It's interesting that, if I can't paste directly to a particular person, I can select another family member to paste to and then check off the problem person's name in the box that appears. Bill From: treewright@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] FTM-TECH Digest, Vol 9, Issue 17 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:42:25 -0500 To: wmayrose@hotmail.com; ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Bill, have you tried a deep compact? As its name suggests, it does a more thorough job of compacting, resetting pointers, etc. Close out of all your data files but leave FTM open. Then do the following.Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C and FTM will prompt you for the file you want to compact. Judy in Ocala On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Bill Mayrose via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: Russ and BJ, Thank you for the responses and suggestions. Unfortunately, neither of the suggestions have corrected the problem. I ended up deleting the most recent problem person and then re-entered her. I can now paste copied facts to her without any problems. Hopefully, there won't be too many more of these problem people. Bill -------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:35:18 -0800 From: H R Worthington <rworthington@att.net> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Copy/Paste Fact Freezes Program? Bill, When you see this again, Please Compact and Back Up your file, then try to duplicate the problem. How much of this do you do? I don't think I have every done the copy a fact and paste it to someone else. Russ -------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 10:04:04 -0700 From: BJ <oldtrails@gmx.com> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Copy/Paste Fact Freezes Program? I use the copy and paste fact feature quite a bit. So far I have not experienced any problems such as you describe. Since you say that compacting the file does not help, the only other thing I can suggest is to 1. Create a new file with only one person in the file. You can either use the home person in your current file, yourself or some completely unrelated name. You are looking to create a new file which requires at least one individual record, basically a Name and Sex record. It may be easiest to use an unrelated individual who can be easily deleted at a later time. 2. Once you have the new file created, open it. 3. Click File and Merge and select your old file. You want to create a new file which has no problems. You then want to merge everyone from your old file into the new file. 4. If the new file was created using yourself or someone else from your old file, you can let FTM merge the information. If you used an unrelated individual who is not in the old file, you can delete that unrelated individual. 5. Hopefully this will resolve all addressing problems. 6. Try the copy/paste fact feature to see whether it has been resolved. 7. Once you have tested the new file and ensured it is OK, perform a manual backup of the new file. You can then either retain the old file or delete it. Hope this helps. BJ On 2/10/2015 7:51 AM, Bill Mayrose via wrote: Greetings, A little over a year ago I posted the email below regarding my FTM software occasionally freezing when I tried to paste a copied fact to another person. I received a number of responses and eventually isolated this problem to copying facts from a few select people. After deleting these people and then re-entering them, the problem appeared to go away. After a bit of a break from genealogy, I began working with my FTM data a few weeks ago. About a week ago I began experiencing the same freezing problem once in a while. After some testing with different people, I find that the problem is the same as the last time - pasting to certain people, regardless of which person from which I copied the fact. I have compacted the file and this has not helped. I am still using FTM 2014 but it is now on a new computer - Windows 8.1 with 8GB RAM. I really don't want to go through deleting people and the re-entering them and all their info as I did the last time. Hoping that someone will have a better solution. Thanks in advance. Bill Mayrose 12/30/2013 Greetings, I am using FTM 2014 (Windows 7; 64-bit). Recently been adding facts (such as residence) to one person and then copying this fact to other family members. When I click on "paste", the program often freezes. I've tried compacting the file and have also uninstalled and then reinstalled FTM. Any thoughts on resolving this problem? Could the 32-bit option help? Thanks for any ideas. ********************************** 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