Ron wrote: > Liz, thanks ever so much for the solution. I tried that > and it worked. File is no longer missing. Ron, I am curious why TMG Utility did not indicate that the exhibit in question was missing. If the name on disk did not agree with the name stored in the TMG record, then TMGU should have reported that an exhibit was not found. Was that not the case? John

John, there is only one dataset involved. Family Researcher research@stonehouse.ca www.stonehouse.ca/tree -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+research=stonehouse.ca@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Cardinal Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 3:13 PM To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Missing file Ron, Do you have multiple datasets in the project? If so, make sure you run TMGU's Verify Exhibit Paths on all the datasets. John 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

Katherine, there is no file in the recycle bin by that name. Family Researcher research@stonehouse.ca www.stonehouse.ca/tree -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+research=stonehouse.ca@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kathryn Bassett Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 2:23 PM To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Missing file Check your recycle bin to see if you accidentally deleted it. I've done that a couple times, and usually find the missing file there. > -----Original Message----- > Good morning everyone, I'm hoping someone on the list can help me. > After making some recent updates to my data I did my regular optimize > and VFI before closing the database. As part of the VFI, I included > checking for missing exhibits in the root and subdirectories. During > the last check the VFI > log indicate the following file was missing. > > t:\Pics\Gerhart\Certificates\Birth\Birth_Certificate_-_Laura > Preston_Henry_Gerhart.jpg > > I have taken the following steps to find the missing file. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus 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

Lee, there is a source but I can't find any exhibit attached to it. Ron Stonehouse ron.stonehouse@stonehouse.ca -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+research=stonehouse.ca@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lee Hoffman/KY Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 2:03 PM To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Missing file Hi Ron - Another possibility is that the Exhibit is attached to a Source. Is there a Source for that birth certificate? Check that out. Lee 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

Sometimes I find the "missing exhibit" problem is caused by my own action, that of renaming or moving a file. I try to name my image files consistently, but occasionally make a typo --- when I later notice and fix the typo in the filename, it becomes "lost" to TMG unless I go back to the tag where it was attached and reload it, using the new file name/location. Liz On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Family Researcher <research@stonehouse.ca> wrote: > John, there is only one dataset involved. > > Family Researcher > research@stonehouse.ca > www.stonehouse.ca/tree > -----Original Message----- > From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+research=stonehouse.ca@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of John Cardinal > Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 3:13 PM > To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' <tmg@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [TMG] Missing file > > Ron, > > Do you have multiple datasets in the project? If so, make sure you run > TMGU's Verify Exhibit Paths on all the datasets. > > John > > 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 > > 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 >

John, yes TMGU showed missing exhibits but the one in question was not among them. The others I can explain. As for the "General Topic Exhibit" not exhibits were shown. Ron Stonehouse ron.stonehouse@stonehouse.ca -----Original Message----- From: TMG [mailto:tmg-bounces+research=stonehouse.ca@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Cardinal Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 10:29 AM To: 'The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List' <tmg@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [TMG] Missing file Ron, Did the TMGU "Verify Exhibit Paths" report show any missing exhibits? If not, then my guess is the exhibit is not attached to any TMG record. That's called a "General Topic Exhibit". Open the Exhibit Log via the Tools menu and then change the "Focus" drop-down menu to "General Topics Exhibits". Perhaps the exhibit will be shown there. John 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

Ron, Do you have multiple datasets in the project? If so, make sure you run TMGU's Verify Exhibit Paths on all the datasets. John

Good morning everyone, I'm hoping someone on the list can help me. After making some recent updates to my data I did my regular optimize and VFI before closing the database. As part of the VFI, I included checking for missing exhibits in the root and subdirectories. During the last check the VFI log indicate the following file was missing. t:\Pics\Gerhart\Certificates\Birth\Birth_Certificate_-_Laura Preston_Henry_Gerhart.jpg I have taken the following steps to find the missing file. 1. Checked the directory indicated in the path but I'm not able to find the file indicated. 2. Searched my hard drive where my pictures are stored no file by this name is able to be located. 3. Checked the persons indicated in the path but no file with this name appears to be attached to either one of the people (Laura or Preston Henry Gerhart) 4. Opened the exhibit log and checked all exhibits for the "frowny face" which I have set to indicate missing exhibits. 5. Using John Cardinals TMG utility I have check for missing exhibits and prepared a report of the directories checked to look for the potential missing file. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do next. Family Researcher research@stonehouse.ca<mailto:research@stonehouse.ca> www.stonehouse.ca/tree<http://www.stonehouse.ca/>

Hi Ron - Another possibility is that the Exhibit is attached to a Source. Is there a Source for that birth certificate? Check that out. Lee

Check your recycle bin to see if you accidentally deleted it. I've done that a couple times, and usually find the missing file there. > -----Original Message----- > Good morning everyone, I'm hoping someone on the list can help me. After > making some recent updates to my data I did my regular optimize and VFI > before closing the database. As part of the VFI, I included checking for > missing exhibits in the root and subdirectories. During the last check the VFI > log indicate the following file was missing. > > t:\Pics\Gerhart\Certificates\Birth\Birth_Certificate_-_Laura > Preston_Henry_Gerhart.jpg > > I have taken the following steps to find the missing file. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Ron, Did the TMGU "Verify Exhibit Paths" report show any missing exhibits? If not, then my guess is the exhibit is not attached to any TMG record. That's called a "General Topic Exhibit". Open the Exhibit Log via the Tools menu and then change the "Focus" drop-down menu to "General Topics Exhibits". Perhaps the exhibit will be shown there. John

JoAnn Gemmrig asked: > I can not transfer the current project [to my new computer]. > I saved it to a thumb drive, to Dropbox, it's backed > up on my cloud service. When I go to the older laptop and ask to > restore I get the OLE messages which includes the restore wizard line. Hi JoAnn, How "exactly" are you trying to do the restore? You say you have saved it to "a thumb drive, to Dropbox, ... my cloud service". But where is the backup .SQZ file when you actually do the restore? As a general practice you must copy or download the backup .SQZ file to the hard drive of the computer where you are restoring. Then when in TMG find that file on that computer's hard drive and restore it. If that is not the issue, then please provide more details. Michael

I'll try to keep it short. Fan problems with laptop running Win 7 Home Premium. Sent to shop and as part of the 'tune-up' I okayed a virus removal. This may or may not matter, but mentioning it in case. Meanwhile purchased new, from mfgr, laptop - Win 10. I planned to dedicate the older laptop to genealogy, so did not make many entries on the new computer once I got TMG 9 installed. Now I can not transfer the current project. I saved it to a thumb drive, to Dropbox, it's backed up on my cloud service. When I go to the older laptop and ask to restore I get the OLE messages which includes the restore wizard line. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance JoAnn

Charlie Towne responded: > Maybe we're not understanding each other. I think you are right, Charlie, and believe my book's description is incorrect. (My only excuse is that I don't use unique endnotes and only briefly did some quick tests of them. <Sigh>) I also agree with you and now think the TMG implementation does not match what I believe Help is identifying as the intended design. > - For subsequent citations of the same source ... > - If the [CD] changes, the Short Footnote template is used whether or > not the [CM] changes. As expected, based on the Help page. > - If the [CD] doesn't change, but the [CM] does change, the Full > Footnote template is used. Not as expected, based on the Help page. Agreed. I believe the lead sentence in the Help paragraph is basing the whole design of unique endnotes on: "... print each source only once." Said another way, based on the rest of that paragraph in Help I believe the "intent" is that a given TMG source record should only use the Full Footnote template once: the first time that source is cited. That would match the concept of printing the [unique] source only once. All subsequent "different" endnotes for that "unique" source ("different" [CD1] and/or [CM1]) should use the Short Footnote. Now that I read it more carefully I agree with your interpretation. But as your testing has shown, that is not the way TMG is behaving. > This seems to me like either a (minor) bug in TMG, or an error in > the Help page text. But of course neither will now ever be changed... Exactly. Note that TMG has never included a default Source Definition which has included [CM] in its default templates. Thus I would guess the behaviour of different CMs was never tested. > I'd hope this is a bug. Yes, I think that this is a bug, because I think the implementation does not match the intended design. I can't believe the output based on different CMs was intended to be different than the output based on different CDs. I think output for both cases should be the same. Thanks, Charlie, for pointing this out and testing it. [No thanks to the work I now have to do because of it <sigh>]. I will add this to my list of Outstanding Bugs, and will update the description of the actual behaviour of unique endnotes in my book and reference this bug. Michael

(My TMG Gold Edition V9.05.000 is on my Windows 10 Laptop) I am trying to go to Report>List of People> which I can do but I cannot locate an EXAMPLE FILTER to use so I can make a filter that will produce people who are family members AND have a Research tag. I used to read and use EXAMPLE FILTERS before my original laptop crashed and I got a new one and reset my TMG - as above- that luckily had been saved TIA Jim Payne

Michael J Hannah wrote: > Charlie Towne observed an issue when using unique endnotes: >> I've got a question/observation involving... using Unique Endnotes... >> The TMG help page "Report Options: Sources" says... >> I'm finding second and subsequent citations to a source, >> with a different [CM], are using the Full Footnote template, >> not the Short Footnote template. > Yes, Charlie, what the Help page says is true, but I think you are > misinterpreting it. Maybe we're not understanding each other. I don't think I'm misinterpreting it, I just think it's wrong. It says (and your on-line book section on "Ibid and Unique Endnotes" says exactly the same thing): "If multiple citations for the same source but different [CD1]s and/or [CM1]s occur, then the first unique endnote uses the Full Footnote template, and the Short Footnote template is used for the second and subsequent unique endnotes for that same source." Note the "or" part of the "and/or" in the above. Grammatically, doesn't the above mean that (1) the first citation of a particular source will use the Full Footnote template; (2) subsequent citations of the same source, but with a different [CD], will use the Short Footnote template; and (3) subsequent citations of the same source, but with a different [CM], will also use the Short Footnote template? This third part (a different [CM]) doesn't appear to always be true. > what > Help and my comments are trying to say is that all *three* items > (source, [CD] *and* [CM]) must be identical for subsequent endnotes to > match. Agreed. (Except it's the citations that will match; in this case only one unique endnote will be produced, which the matching citations will all point to.) > If *any* of the three differ that is considered a different and > unique endnote, Again, agreed. > and thus will require use of the Full Footnote template. Here's where we disagree. If the source is the same, but the [CD] and/or the [CM] (there's that "or" again) is different, a new unique endnote is indeed required, but using the Short Footnote template for it is fine, and in my view desirable. And in fact that's the way it works when the [CD] is different, and when both the [CD] and [CM] are different. But not when just the [CM] is different. I've done some more testing, and have found the following: - The first citation of a particular source uses the Full Footnote template. This is as expected, based on the TMG Help page text. - For subsequent citations of the same source ... - If the [CD] changes, the Short Footnote template is used whether or not the [CM] changes. As expected, based on the Help page. - If the [CD] doesn't change, but the [CM] does change, the Full Footnote template is used. Not as expected, based on the Help page. This seems to me like either a (minor) bug in TMG, or an error in the Help page text. But of course neither will now ever be changed. (If TMG were still being supported, I'd hope this is a bug. There's no reason that I can think of for the Full Footnote template to ever be used after the first citation of a source. Assuming, of course, that the [CD] and [CM] are in the Short template.) -- Charlie Towne cetowne@adelphia.net

The Roots Users Group "RUG" of Arlington, Virginia (the Washington, DC area TMG Users group) will meet on Saturday, November 12 2016, from 9:00 am to 12:00 am (Eastern Standard Time). 9:00 AM Session I: Finding a Home for Our TMG Treasures: Moving Them Smoothly to Second Site - Presenter: Paul Blackburn 10:15-10:30 Break 10:30-11:45 Session II: Saving Our TMG Treasures in Second Site - Presenter: Clyde Roby 11:45 Questions - Folks unable to attend onsite may send their questions in advance to programs@rootsusers.org or if joining us online, text your questions via the Join.Me chat feature. SNEAK PEAK: We will dive even deeper into Second Site at our December meeting when John Cardinal is our presenter! All are invited to attend the meeting in person or join us online via Join.Me. Our online meeting is open to everyone, not just members! For online access, download the FREE Join.Me app from the http://www.join.me/apps website, install it and join our meeting using our JOIN.ME ACCESS CODE: “rugmeeting” without quotes. There is a Q&A page on the Join.Me site which can help if you are having difficulties. http://help.join.me/knowledgebase. Be aware that the latest JOIN.ME app for Windows or Mac requires users to create a NEW FREE account when you open the app before you can join the RUG meeting as usual. You still do NOT need to pay and download the full-featured version of the software or download the free trial to join the meeting. Simply download one of the free apps. MEETING LOCATION: We still meet 'in person' in Northern Virginia near Tyson's Corner, about 2 miles inside the beltway (I-495) on Route 123. Members and guests are welcome! We meet in the newer building on the lower level. Trinity United Methodist Church (UMC) 1205 Dolley Madison Boulevard McLean, VA 22101-3019 For directions see our website: http://www.rootsusers.org/TrinityUMCLocation.html. Janis Parkison Rodriguez VP Arlington RUG

At 11/10/2016 02:17, you wrote: >(My TMG Gold Edition V9.05.000 is on my Windows 10 Laptop) > >I am trying to go to Report>List of People> which I can do but I cannot >locate an EXAMPLE FILTER to use so I can make a filter that will produce >people who are family members AND have a Research tag. > >I used to read and use EXAMPLE FILTERS before my original laptop crashed and >I got a new one and reset my TMG - as above- that luckily had been saved The example filters that come with the TMG installation can be found in the SAMPLE project folder. You can copy them (they have ".FL?" file extensions) from the SAMPLE folder to the folder where your project is located. Lee

On 11/10/2016 2:17 AM, James Payne wrote: > I am trying to go to Report>List of People> which I can do but I cannot > locate an EXAMPLE FILTER to use so I can make a filter that will produce > people who are family members AND have a Research tag. Jim, I don't know what an "Example Filter" is, so can't help you there. We can help you write a filter to do what you age, but need to know what you mean by "are family members." Terry Reigel

Charlie Towne observed an issue when using unique endnotes: > I've got a question/observation involving... using Unique Endnotes... > The TMG help page "Report Options: Sources" says... > I'm finding second and subsequent citations to a source, > with a different [CM], are using the Full Footnote template, > not the Short Footnote template. Yes, Charlie, what the Help page says is true, but I think you are misinterpreting it. For complete details I suggest reviewing the section on "Unique Endnotes" in the "Source Guide" chapter of my on-line book: http://www.mjh-nm.net/SRCGUIDE.HTML#IbidUnique What you are seeing is by design. As I state in that chapter: "The definition of uniqueness for an endnote is based on the combination of three pieces: the source, [CD1] and [CM1]." As you probably know if the CD and CM are not split, then [CD1] and [CM1] is the same as [CD] and [CM]. Since you do not split them, what Help and my comments are trying to say is that all *three* items (source, [CD] *and* [CM]) must be identical for subsequent endnotes to match. If *any* of the three differ that is considered a different and unique endnote, and thus will require use of the Full Footnote template. Or said another way, if two citations are the same source and [CD] but have different [CM]s, then they are different unique endnotes. Hope this helps explain, Michael