Hi Margaret, Yes, the Gedcom came from FTM2014. I could not import it into my TMG program, but I had already purchased RootsMagic in case TMG gave me too much trouble. That is the only database I have in RM, other than the Sample. I find each of those Alt-Names imported as a separate person. I am trying to clean up the database for my purposes. The owner who sent me the Gedcom is doing a rather large genealogy job. She asked me to get the marriage and death records. The death records we will need are restricted after 1965. I am mainly interested in the information for marriage records and death records. I just closed down RM. There was no way to stop the compacting. I made a backup. I hope it opens with no problems tomorrow. Nancy -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MScheffler via Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:14 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] Compacting for over an hour Compacting for an extended period of time seems a little strange. I have a 239,000 person database, and I compact quite frequently. I have never timed the process, but I do not think it ever took longer than one or two minutes (probably less), about the same for indexing. I have used all versions of RM except version 4. As I recall, I never used RM4, because -- if I am remembering correctly-- back that far, it ran much slower than version 3 did. Version 5 was great. I am wondering about the gedcom -- Did it come from a different program that used unusual features not in RootsMagic? Hopefully someone will provide an explanation. -----Original Message----- From: nancy wright via Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:24 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [RMagic] Compacting for over an hour I have been removing some of the Alt-Names that came with a Gedcom. I removed about 30 at the most. Many of them were nicknames. I like the way RM handles those. After removing the Alt-Names I thought I should go through the Database tools. Everything was fine until I got to Compacting. There was an error message something about a report open, but I don't have any reports open. I closed everything down until the backup then used the database tools. It says it can take a long time for a large database. This has 3,3??. I don't think that is large enough to take that long at compacting. Will it be OK to just down the compacting or should I let it run overnight? Nancy =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This happens rather frequently when I run all the database tools in order. When I close RM and then reopen I immediately run the compact database and it works fine. Sue > On Apr 24, 2016, at 5:58 PM, nancy wright via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > Hi Margaret, > Yes, the Gedcom came from FTM2014. I could not import it into my TMG > program, but I had already purchased RootsMagic in case TMG gave me too much > trouble. That is the only database I have in RM, other than the Sample. I > find each of those Alt-Names imported as a separate person. I am trying to > clean up the database for my purposes. The owner who sent me the Gedcom is > doing a rather large genealogy job. She asked me to get the marriage and > death records. The death records we will need are restricted after 1965. I > am mainly interested in the information for marriage records and death > records. > > I just closed down RM. There was no way to stop the compacting. I made a > backup. I hope it opens with no problems tomorrow. > > Nancy > > -----Original Message----- > From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MScheffler via > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:14 PM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [RMagic] Compacting for over an hour > > Compacting for an extended period of time seems a little strange. I have a > 239,000 person database, and I compact quite frequently. I have never timed > the process, but I do not think it ever took longer than one or two minutes > (probably less), about the same for indexing. I have used all versions of > RM except version 4. As I recall, I never used RM4, because -- if I am > remembering correctly-- back that far, it ran much slower than version 3 > did. Version 5 was great. > > I am wondering about the gedcom -- Did it come from a different program that > used unusual features not in RootsMagic? Hopefully someone will provide an > explanation. > > -----Original Message----- > From: nancy wright via > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:24 PM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: [RMagic] Compacting for over an hour > > I have been removing some of the Alt-Names that came with a Gedcom. I > removed about 30 at the most. Many of them were nicknames. I like the way > RM handles those. After removing the Alt-Names I thought I should go > through the Database tools. Everything was fine until I got to Compacting. > There was an error message something about a report open, but I don't have > any reports open. I closed everything down until the backup then used the > database tools. It says it can take a long time for a large database. This > has 3,3??. I don't think that is large enough to take that long at > compacting. Will it be OK to just down the compacting or should I let it > run overnight? > > Nancy > > > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message