Richard, Thanks for understanding what I am trying to do. Your directions sound clear, but just how do I uninstall PAF? I don't want to do anything drastic. Here is the deal. I am 78 years old and digitally impaired. Marilyn **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)

Why do you want to uninstall PAF? What Richard was getting at as I recall was the point that you could install PAF on a memory stick and run it that way. Thus you could take it with you. There would not be a need to uninstall it, you just use it. The PDF data files called something like "family.paf" (in windows you do not see the ".paf" unless you make a display change, but see a file type instead as "Personal Ancestral File 5". That may be where the confusion comes. You are moving the data file which has this file type, not "paf5.exe" which has a file type of "application". I hope I am not confusing you, but to transfer data you can copy the "family.paf" file, the backup file (family.zip) - filetype "PKZIP" on my machine, or the gedcom (family.ged). When you go somewhere else, you would simply open the paf file in PAF5 (the program). You could also open PAF5 and restore from the backup to get a new paf file. The last option is to use the PAF5 File>import to retrieve the data from the gedcom. None of these methods require you to install or move the program files. I think this difference between program files and data files is where we are all getting twisted around. In Windows Explorer, look at the files you think you should be working with and let us know the name and filetype (I am assuming the .paf, .zip, and .ged are not visible on screen) and what you are wanting to do. Typically you would want to copy one of these files from your harddrive to the memory stick. It would help to know exactly what you need the files on the memory stick for. Assuming you are taking to another location, do they have PAF5 or something else? If something else, then you need to take the GEDCOM file. If PAF5, you have the choice. Probably the backup file (.ZIP) is the most useful for size and being complete. So the specifics of what you are using it for would help. I hope this helps some for someone that admits to being computer challenged. I am trying to think about explanations and guessing what you might be referring to based on your post. Good luck. Bill > Richard, Thanks for understanding what I am trying to do. Your > directions > sound clear, but just how do I uninstall PAF? I don't want to do > anything > drastic. Here is the deal. I am 78 years old and digitally impaired. > Marilyn >

Marilyn, Richard and I have two ways of doing the same thing. (i.e. running PAF from a flash drive on computers that do not have PAF installed) Richard's method is the one endorsed by the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group http://www.svpafug.org My method is the one given on www.familysearch.org in Product Support. BOTH methods work by creating a copy of the installed PAF5 software folder on the flash drive. The Product Support method is simpler, since there is no need to uninstall and reinstall PAF, you just copy the installed PAF5 folder from the hard disk to the flash drive. Then you can run PAF from the flash drive by opening the file paf5.exe in the flash drive's PAF5 folder (as Bill Davis points out some computers will list this file as simply paf5, but the results are the same.) It is easier to demontrate this than to explain it. [NOTE: Flash drives are sometimes called memory sticks, jump drives, thumb drives, pen drives, key drives, and USB keys. (Some of these names are trademarks of specific manufacturers.) In all cases, they contain a flash memory card and a USB connnector, and they are about the size of a person's thumb. A variety of software can be run directly from a flash drive, although most can not.] Bill Buchanan > Richard, Thanks for understanding what I am trying to do. Your directions > sound clear, but just how do I uninstall PAF? I don't want to do anything > drastic. Here is the deal. I am 78 years old and digitally impaired. Marilyn

Marilyn ---- Just wait 'till you get to be 85! Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 2:14 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Flash Drive > Richard, Thanks for understanding what I am trying to do. Your directions > sound clear, but just how do I uninstall PAF? I don't want to do anything > drastic. Here is the deal. I am 78 years old and digitally impaired. > Marilyn > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.6/1192 - Release Date: > 12/21/2007 1:17 PM > >