Regarding your spatial issues, you may consider an external hard drive which would store your material if or when you loose material for whatever reason.  I also store mine on a cd as well.  Double proection. --- On Fri, 3/5/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker To: [email protected] Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 2:21 PM Do you have a suggestion as to an easy way to get rid of stuff on FTM I really do not need?  I've saved some family names - "just in case" - and I know they will never connect.    Shall I copy, save my "notes" and delete all those?  There are no pictures in the scrapbook anymore; my ghost must have moved those - I just found them today "somewhere."  ladybug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker >I get the same thing from FTM 10, it is just a quark of FTM10. > My pc 16GB of Ram, twin 1TB sata drives, Windows 7. > About every other time I get out of FTM it tell me my file is to large > that > I should "compact, my file" Then the next time fights me about trying to > open. My FTM file is up to 10MB, I work  with 150MB to 200MB photos with > no > problems > So in my opinion it is the software not the PC. > > Kent > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John T. Anderson > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker > > Gail, > > The basic rule with computers these days is that data storage is cheap > so you don't throw anything away. > > You can get a second hard drive for under $50 that will hold more than > you could type into the computer in a lifetime, and probably more > pictures and maps that you would likely ever store. If you have taken > the trouble to type it in or save it somewhere, it is probably better to > keep it than to delete it. > > Your computer can hold several hard drives. A new one will show up as a > different letter, maybe E or F depending upon whatever other storage (CD > ROM, memory card reader, etc.) you already have. You would simply have > to get in the habit of storing all your new data in the new drive, or, > better yet, devote it to genealogy. > > I don't know what sort of computer stores you have in your vicinity but > I wouldn't expect that it would cost much to put the drive into your > computer if you are not comfortable doing that sort of thing yourself. > The best bet is to find a teenage computer whiz-kid and ask him to do > it. I know it is too soon for computers to be in kids' genes but it sure > seems that it is in their DNA to do this sort of stuff. > > John > > > > > [email protected] wrote: >> My photo's in my FTM scrapbook all disappeared some time ago!  I just now >> found them all in a row - somewhere in this machine.  I've deleted >> "saved, > >> unknown" names by the dozens in the past; I could make copies of my notes >> and delete those?  Would that help?  I do have thousands of names with > info >> in my FTM; I keep about everything I find for family and Ford county >> residents.  ladybug >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Richard Hardesty" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:45 PM >> Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker >> >> >> >>> Take any photos' or maps out and save them in My Pictures file...that > will >>> free up space within the program >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] >>> On Behalf Of [email protected] >>> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 1:23 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker >>> >>> Thanks - my computer has enough memory; it is the soft-ware, FTM that is >>> sooooo full!  ladybug >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:12 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker >>> >>> >>> >>>> Have you thought of adding more memory to the unit?  It can be > relatively >>>> inexpensive (try Geek Squad). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; >>>> [email protected] >>>> Cc: Moxley, 1965, * Carla <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 10:28 am >>>> Subject: [ILHAMILT] Family Tree Maker >>>> >>>> >>>> Months ago when my computer files were so full, I deleted a bunch of >>>> ocuments that had my genealogy reports on a particular surname (Bond, >>>> utchcraft, Davis, etc.).  I cannot do the genealogy reports on my old >>>> amily Tree Maker anymore because I do not have "enough memory" and it >>>> loses. >>>> Shouldn't these documents still be somewhere in this machine?  NCIS > would >>>> be >>>> ble to find them, can anyone help? 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