Dennis - It is possible that the errors in Gypsy's message are simply typos when copying the paths. There are good reasons (see Help / Data File Storage) for the specific locations of each group of files, and for average users like me, it is best to stay with the default paths. Virginia On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > At 02:31 PM 10/30/2015, gypsy via wrote: >>I get the following message: >> >> >> >>c\programfiles(x86)\tmgdv9\_nd.dbf cannot be found. >> >> >> >>I think I have typed that right. >> > > > Lots of things wrong with that message... > > C:\Program Files (x86)\The Master Genealogist v9\sample\sample_nd.dbf > > Note the spaces... Note the default install directory (even an 8.3 > directory name would not look like "tmgdv9") -- so one had to have > overridden the defaults when installing the program... And most > egregious -- it is trying to open an unnamed project whose data is in > the program files area -- which is supposed to be read-only except > when running an installer with admin privileges. WinXP did allow one > to easily change that, but as mentioned, it is an unnamed project > (real projects have the project name in front of the _). > > > > > >> >> >>From: gypsy [mailto:gypsy2@chartermi.net] >>Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 2:28 PM >>To: 'tmg@rootsweb.com' <tmg@rootsweb.com> >>Subject: cannot restore >> >> >> >>I apparently did something wrong today while sending files to one drive. >> >> >> >>I cannot open tmg. I have windows 8.1 and version9.5. well I used to. >> >> >> >>When I open tmg I get the repair mode window. When the program starts - my >>last project is not highlighted. All the other options - sample, restore >>etc are. I went to restore and then tried to restore my last sqz file. I >>keep getting the message that someone else is using the program. >> > > TMG has no problems running multiple copies (I just tested > -- opened two copies both opening the same project even). What may > trigger an error however, is if it is trying to access a "locked" > data file -- if the data file is read-only, VFP may have problems... > If the directory is read-only, same... (and since the install > directory should be read-only for anything newer than WinXP [and even > for WinXP one had to manually override that], that would be the > corrupt project seen above. > > -- > bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net Dennis Lee Bieber > HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/ > > 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