I try to make a GEDCOM of my entire TMG database regularly - "just in case" - and it takes just under 2 hours, using a fairly new and fast computer. People: 44701 Events: 110614 Witnesses: 145746 Places: 6621 Relationships: 64349 Citations: 322191 Sources 2949 Repostitory Links: 3275 NO exhibits included in GEDCOM I also make GEDCOMS of 4 portions of my database that I would put online, selected by flag, and length of time depends on size of the portion. I have not found a way to select portions of my database to export in other genealogy programs, (other than ancestors or descendants of..) Sureties and flags in TMG allow me to exclude unverified information from export. I'm really hoping TMG will continue to work for a long time and my database won't become corrupt. I can live with a long export time for GEDCOMS. Karen On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 3:57 PM, John Cardinal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am not an expert on exporting GEDCOMs from TMG, but my experience is that > they take a long time. To make sure I wasn't misremembering, I just did a > test and exported my 27,000 member project and it took 20 minutes. In my > opinion, that's slow. Backing up my project is much faster, no more than a > minute. > > I did include exhibits in the GEDCOM file. I don't think TMG will include > internal image exhibits (I don't have any), but it did include external > image exhibits (GEDCOM 5.5 supports that) and it also exported internal > text > exhibits. The external image exhibits should not slow TMG down. It doesn't > copy the image files, it writes the path to the file in the GEDCOM file. > > I have a little experience with importing GEDCOM into TMG, and that is > really slow, though there are wide variations based on the characteristics > of the GEDCOM file. The other day I imported a 140,000 person GEDCOM file > and it took more than 24 hours. That file was exported from Reunion for the > Mac and there were various issues with it. I wrote a program to adjust the > Reunion GEDCOM file and make it more standard. When I imported the modified > GEDCOM into TMG, it took about 3 hours. > > 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >