- I received the following advice when I couldn't open my project.  It worked for me. - Judi Baumgarner - - Teresa Ghee Elliott Try restoring backup to another name. Sounds like it needs to delete the project files and then restore, but that's complicated to explain over email.May 13 at 11:00am · Like - Judi Alexander Baumgarner Thanks, Teresa. I created a new folder in T...M...G...v9\Projects\ and it restored my latest backup. Any suggestions for what I should do next, now that I have my project open?May 13 at 11:33am · Like - Teresa Ghee Elliott Just make sure you use that one from now on. Make a backup!!!! Then you can delete the old folder. Go slow. Make sure you have the right folder, and save that backup in case it doesn't work. But it sounds like you are home free. Make sure no images are in the project folder.May 13 at 11:36am · Like On Sunday, September 27, 2015 9:29 AM, Patt Ricketts via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: Bud, Something like that happened to me about a year and a half ago. After I did an optimize I was getting an error. I had to restore from backup. My solution was to backup before I did an optimize and copy the directory so I could replace the file that was missing. I was then able to do a validate and had no problem with a 2nd optimize. The problem stopped when 6 months later my computer died. So it may have been a failing hard drive. Good luck! Patt On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Russell Dorr via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all: > I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime.  I've managed > to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this > great program. > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, > sample, select. etc.  All choices are available except the "last" which is > grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would > happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES > (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? > Bud Dorr > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -- Patt Ricketts www.jackandpatt.com The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

How do I run optimize, etc. when I cannot access the project that needs repair?  I guess I shouldn't hace chosen the sample project?  Now my projects list is unavailable. From: Terry Reigel via <tmg@rootsweb.com> To: tmg@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [TMG] Serious Problem in TMG v9.05 On 9/27/2015 11:18 AM, Joan Lince via wrote: > I'm interested to see the responses to this because I've had a much less serious version of the same problem. "Last" is also greyed out on my opening screen (Welcome window), so I just use "Select" and select my project. Then it opens and all is well except that I don't have access to the help files. I haven't seen the error message you show -- but that could be because I have made a selection instead of closing the Welcome window. > in response to Russell Dor's post: > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc.  All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? Joan and Bud, The real expect on both these issues is Jim Byram, who no longer follows this list, but does watch the WG Forum. If you don't get helpful answers here I suggest you post there so he will see it. Terry Reigel The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

At 9/27/2015 14:36, Mary Jo Gatti wrote: >In data entry, I'm trying to decide how to add "Dr." to a person's >name. He wasn't a doctor at birth so I can't add it to his name. There is always a question as to how to enter the name of someone such as this. The usual idea is to enter the name that the person used most. Except that women would use their maiden name. In the case of medical professionals, the title is often their most used name. But, as you say that looks very funny to see a small child listed in a census record as a doctor. >Is there a way to add the title only after her receives his >doctorate but not before? Sure, just add a Name-Var Tag, say using a Date of when he began his practice or when he was awarded his doctorate. Then for all Tags before that date, select the non-Title name and choose the title name for all Tags after the date. Lee

Hi, In data entry, I’m trying to decide how to add “Dr.” to a person’s name. He wasn’t a doctor at birth so I can’t add it to his name. Is there a way to add the title only after her receives his doctorate but not before? Thanks, Mary Jo

Thanks very much Terry. Will use this solution until I get to SS. I'm preparing many draft journals at the moment for family members to check and add to. Am thinking that I should begin using some macros to quickly format these and edit out things like a Fake Child, before sending them to the relevant family member. Do you use a macro or just search and replace? Ann On 9/26/2015 11:05 PM, Ann Carson via wrote: > I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. > > Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear > in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? > > Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' > for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS > has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin > working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" > research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. And Terry responded: Ann, TMG's Journal only provides a separate section for people who have children. So to get a childless person to appear in his or her own section you have to attach a child, which you then edit out with a word processor. Second Site doesn't have that issue. Each person gets their own section or page, regardless of whether or not they have children. My solution is to add "Fake Child" to such people so they get their own section in a Journal, but make the child living so it doesn't appear in my site created with Second Site. Terry Reigel The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

At 9/27/2015 10:05, Russell Dorr wrote: >I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime. I've >managed to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been >using this great program. >I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. >"Repair mode has been activated." >I hit "OK" >The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: >the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as >last, sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the >"last" which is grayed out. >I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what >would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. >Then I got this: >The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: >"An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM >FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." >I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. >What now? This usually means that something in TMG got screwed up somewhere along the line -- probably during a power failure, a brown-out or a voltage spike (having a UPS or at least a power strip with suppression technology usually prevent this, but it can still happen). What the message is saying is that one of the project files is missing (in your case, the Name Dictionary, but it could be some other project file). The simple solution would be to do a Restore of your latest project Backup. My guess is that you have been experiencing some little oddities during the last work session or so. Nothing really wrong, but displays are odd and need to be re-displayed or you need to try the Picklist or Project Explorer filtering again, or some other little something. Usually the second try, everything seems to work and you just continue as everything now seems fine. This is TMG saying that it isn't well and as you continue, things just keep happening. At times like this, I would suggest re-installing TMG. And to make sure that you get a good reinstall, do an uninstall of TMG first (this just removes the program and leaves your folders). Then do the reinstall. Be sure you have your Serial number although you probably don't need it if you reinstall in the same manner as the original install. After the install is complete, do a Restore of your project. Hopefully, the Restored Backup is not that far back and you have as easy recovery of work that was done since the Backup. Lee Hoffman/KY

Hi all: I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime.  I've managed to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this great program. I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. "Repair mode has been activated." I hit "OK" The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc.  All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. Then I got this: The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. What now? Bud Dorr

Hi Bud, This happened to someone in our TMG users group and it was caused by McAfee antivirus. You could try restoring a backup to another computer as a test to confirm it's specific to the computer the errors are reported on. In our TMG users case, they did not have to "use" the backup, but rather it was just to confirm the McAfee issue and once that was fixed on the problem computer, they were good to go with their last working TMG project. Others on this forum may have reported similar (missing file) issues due to the cloud backup program or Dropbox. See related messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/tmg/2014-12/1417817664 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/tmg/2015-01/1421693501 When you go to the links above, it is helpful to scroll down and review other messages in the same thread. Tom -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Russell Dorr via Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 10:06 AM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Serious Problem in TMG v9.05 Hi all: I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime. I've managed to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this great program. I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. "Repair mode has been activated." I hit "OK" The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. Then I got this: The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. What now? Bud Dorr

At 9/27/2015 13:04, you wrote: >went to validate file integrity and noticed that "search for missing >external exhibits" >was checked - should I leave that checked when I validate ? It depends. IF you have no Exhibits in the project then no, but it really doesn't matter. On the other hand, you probably have Exhibits, so the question is whether you are missing Exhibits. If some are missing then you want that option selected. If you don't have missing Exhibits then you don't need to search for them. I usually leave it checked either way as it only takes a short time and it may discover an Exhibit that got inadvertently moved or deleted during operations outside TMG. Lee

Hello all I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Thanks in advance Ann

I just optimized - went to validate file integrity and noticed that "search for missing external exhibits" was checked - should I leave that checked when I validate ? thank you - DeAnne

On 9/27/2015 11:18 AM, Joan Lince via wrote: > I'm interested to see the responses to this because I've had a much less serious version of the same problem. "Last" is also greyed out on my opening screen (Welcome window), so I just use "Select" and select my project. Then it opens and all is well except that I don't have access to the help files. I haven't seen the error message you show -- but that could be because I have made a selection instead of closing the Welcome window. > in response to Russell Dor's post: > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? Joan and Bud, The real expect on both these issues is Jim Byram, who no longer follows this list, but does watch the WG Forum. If you don't get helpful answers here I suggest you post there so he will see it. Terry Reigel

I'm interested to see the responses to this because I've had a much less serious version of the same problem. "Last" is also greyed out on my opening screen (Welcome window), so I just use "Select" and select my project. Then it opens and all is well except that I don't have access to the help files. I haven't seen the error message you show -- but that could be because I have made a selection instead of closing the Welcome window. Perhaps a comparison of what other things are going on with each of our computers would provide a clue that could help to keep this from happening. Joan Lince -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Russell Dorr via Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 10:06 AM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Serious Problem in TMG v9.05 Hi all: I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime. I've managed to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this great program. I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. "Repair mode has been activated." I hit "OK" The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the "last" which is grayed out. I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. Then I got this: The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. What now? Bud Dorr

On 9/27/2015 9:33 AM, Ann Carson wrote: > Thanks Terry, and thank you Joan for your response You're welcome, Ann. The macro article on my site is at http://tmg.reigelridge.com/WordMacros.htm > I'll have a look at your website and also some of the discussion here about > various macros. At the moment I'm focussing quite often on the elderly > members of the family and most don't even have a computer so am using > journal reports a lot. I used to run into that a lot, but more recently it seems most of my contacts have been with people who use computers. I suppose it also helps that I'm now mainly researching people who I'm publishing, so I can share my draft findings by putting them up on my website. Terry

Bud, Something like that happened to me about a year and a half ago. After I did an optimize I was getting an error. I had to restore from backup. My solution was to backup before I did an optimize and copy the directory so I could replace the file that was missing. I was then able to do a validate and had no problem with a 2nd optimize. The problem stopped when 6 months later my computer died. So it may have been a failing hard drive. Good luck! Patt On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Russell Dorr via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all: > I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime. I've managed > to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this > great program. > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, > sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the "last" which is > grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would > happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES > (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? > Bud Dorr > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -- Patt Ricketts www.jackandpatt.com

On 9/27/2015 12:11 AM, Ann Carson wrote: > Thanks very much Terry. Will use this solution until I get to SS. > > I'm preparing many draft journals at the moment for family members to check > and add to. Am thinking that I should begin using some macros to quickly > format these and edit out things like a Fake Child, before sending them to > the relevant family member. Do you use a macro or just search and replace? > > Ann, I use a Word macro for other formatting, as described in an article on my website, but I've not added this search to it. I don't find I am sending many Journals out lately, so haven't sent any that include a Fake Child. I added them to prepare text for a book I'm trying to get together, and for that I have lots of editing, so removing these manually is easy enough. But adding this to a macro shouldn't be hard to do. The hard part I think would be to figure out how to get the several lines removed at once. Terry

I don't have this problem at all, I set the sort order to birth date in the report options (SortBy). with kind regards Derek Bandy -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Ann Carson via Sent: 27 September 2015 04:06 To: TMG@rootsweb.com Subject: [TMG] Child without descendants in TMG Journal reports and/or Second Site Hello all I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Thanks in advance Ann The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I do the same thing that Terry does, and I call the fake child (no children) so it will more or less make sense in case I ever forget to edit it out of the report. Of course, giving all the fake children the same name makes them easier to search for and delete. Whether the childless child appears in birth order or immediately after the parents depends on the birthdate you give to the child. If you don't have an actual date you can always use a sort date. Joan Lince -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Terry Reigel via Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 11:19 PM To: tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TMG] Child without descendants in TMG Journal reports and/or Second Site On 9/26/2015 11:05 PM, Ann Carson via wrote: > I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. > > Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear > in birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? > > Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' > for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS > has a solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin > working with SS as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" > research. Am very happy to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Ann, TMG's Journal only provides a separate section for people who have children. So to get a childless person to appear in his or her own section you have to attach a child, which you then edit out with a word processor. Second Site doesn't have that issue. Each person gets their own section or page, regardless of whether or not they have children. My solution is to add "Fake Child" to such people so they get their own section in a Journal, but make the child living so it doesn't appear in my site created with Second Site. Terry Reigel The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 9/26/2015 11:05 PM, Ann Carson via wrote: > I'm experimenting with TMG Journal reports at the moment. > > Is there any way I can make a child who doesn't have children appear in > birth order in the journal, rather than immediately after their parents? > > Ultimately I'm planning to use Second Site to produce the final 'journal' > for many in the family I'm documenting , but not for all. Perhaps SS has a > solution for this issue but I haven't had a chance to begin working with SS > as am so busy trying to clean up data and "finish" research. Am very happy > to begin learning SS right now if that is recommended. Ann, TMG's Journal only provides a separate section for people who have children. So to get a childless person to appear in his or her own section you have to attach a child, which you then edit out with a word processor. Second Site doesn't have that issue. Each person gets their own section or page, regardless of whether or not they have children. My solution is to add "Fake Child" to such people so they get their own section in a Journal, but make the child living so it doesn't appear in my site created with Second Site. Terry Reigel

I actually tested TMG's date calculator with a few samples against my own calculations subtracting (or adding) years then months then days. I found that it did take into consideration 30 vs 31 day months, why wouldn't it as they are a know entity. So when counting days into a partial month, it will use 30 or 31 days for the preceding month as appropriate. However, it does not cater for leap years when the preceding month is February, but always uses 28 days. So if your calculation of the number of days goes into March it would be correct unless it was a leap year when it would be 1 day more than it should be. Of course, this does not help us to know exactly how our ancestors calculated these Year, Month and Day times! As for using Microsoft products to calculate dates be aware that Excel thinks 1900 was a leap year unless you use an add-in to correct that. I can't comment on other their products as I haven't used them for date calculations. Graeme Simpson >Thank you, John, Rick, and Lee for explaining the proper way of >calculating the putative date of birth. On stones I've seen with birth >and death dates plus years-months-days, it worked correctly whether >working forward (from the date of birth) or backward (from the date of >death). > >Lee, you solved the puzzle for me--every month is 30 days--so that, >ok, 22 Feb to 22 Mar is one month; then 9 days left in March to day of >death, 15 Apr, boom, that's 24. So, it works correctly working forward >as well as backward. That's what puzzled me when I wondered about Feb. >plus a leap year because when someone dies, one starts with the >deceased's age at the last birthday and works forward to the day of >death and it makes sense to ignore the actual number of days in each >month. I was overthinking it after all. > >Thanks again to each of you. > > Sam