My posting from a couple days ago never showed up on the list. It was in response to the user of RM4 who was looking for Database tools. A couple days back I suggested there were" database tools" in the earlier versions of Rootsmagic. After reading several times in messages that there were none, I just booted up an old XP computer which had RM3. Sure enough under the file menu was an item to Rebuild indexes. Clicking on that, one could either "pack" the database and/or rebuild the indexes. I have done this regularly with most versions of RM and Family Origins I was using. I then saw I had RM4 on that XP computer, but found I have no database in it; I remember I had found RM3 to my liking and never switched to the next version until RM5. I did not see an option for rebuilding indexes and packing in it, but without a database, I am not sure if that is the case. Perhaps the tools were missing from that version or perhaps someone is smarter than me in finding them. I too would suggest an update from RM4 which did not have so of the really good new features of the later versions. Margaret Scheffler
There were no "Database Tools" in version 4, not even Compact because SQLite actually deletes records whereas xBase used in RM3 only marked records for deletion. Compact then deleted them. Tom > On Apr 8, 2016, at 6:29 PM, MScheffler via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > My posting from a couple days ago never showed up on the list. It was in response to the user of RM4 who was looking for Database tools. > > A couple days back I suggested there were" database tools" in the > earlier versions of Rootsmagic. > > After reading several times in messages that there were none, I just > booted up an old XP computer which had RM3. Sure enough under the file menu > was an item to Rebuild indexes. Clicking on that, one could either "pack" > the database and/or rebuild the indexes. I have done this regularly > with most versions of RM and Family Origins I was using. > > I then saw I had RM4 on that XP computer, but found I have no database > in it; I remember I had found RM3 to my liking and never switched to the next > version until RM5. I did not see an option for rebuilding indexes and > packing in it, but without a database, I am not sure if that is the case. > Perhaps the tools were missing from that version or perhaps someone is smarter than me in finding them. > > I too would suggest an update from RM4 which did not have so of the really good new features of the later versions. > > Margaret Scheffler > > > =================================== > 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