I had this same problem and tried many ways to get a valid export. Finally I did it in Safe Mode and it worked great. On 10/21/2015 9:04 AM, John Cordes via wrote: > I find that it pays to do *nothing* else on the computer > while TMG is exporting a GEDCOM file. Every now and then, > if I violate this rule, I find an incomplete GEDCOM being > exported. I don't recall them being actually corrupted, so > that they wouldn't import to another program, so this may > have nothing at all to do with your problem. In my case > the export process takes on the order of 15 minutes or so. > > John Cordes > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:53:10AM -0400, TC Cottrell via wrote: >> I had hoped and prayed I never had to write to this list because I love TMG >> and do not want to move to another program. However, now we have a big >> problem. I'd love help if anyone can help. We have the last and latest >> version of TMG installed on two computers (my wife's and mine) with separate >> datasets (hers and mine). Last time, several months ago, when I created GED >> files from each dataset to upload into ipad genealogy programs all was fine. >> Today, the GED files appear to export without error. However, they will not >> import into any program, including back into TMG. I get errors that the >> file is incomplete, or similar error messages depending on importing >> program. I tried just exporting GED for single individual (me) from my >> dataset and that one imported fine. This is two computers, completely >> separate, two datasets, completely separate, two copies of TMG completely >> separate, both failing to properly export GED. I tried various settings in >> export to include GED 4.0, all with same effect. >> >> Obviously now I'm panicky because it seems the option to export data and >> move to another program may be gone. Any suggestions. By the way the >> dataset seems OK as John Cardinal's Second Site is still exporting to our >> websites without error and all seems fine in that area. And yes, I've run >> maintenance more than once on both computers and also tried importing the >> GED files into several different applications all with the same failure >> results, so it definitely is an incomplete or errored GED file that both TMG >> copies are producing. >> >> TC Cottrell > 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 -- Ed Hotchkin hotchkinfamilyhistory.com

At 10/24/2015 12:44, you wrote: >I had this same problem and tried many ways to get a valid export. >Finally I did it in Safe Mode and it worked great Safe mode means that you were _not_ connected to the internet. That is, no backups were being made to the cloud. You should not have any backup being made of your TMG folders while TMG is running. This especially includes Exporting, Importing, Backups, and Restores. Those files should always be on the local computer -- either downloaded to the computer before operations or copied after operations to folders that are backed up to the cloud. It is best to always select the TMG folders to not be part of you cloud backup. Lee

At 01:40 PM 10/24/2015, Lee Hoffman/KY via wrote: >At 10/24/2015 12:44, you wrote: > >I had this same problem and tried many ways to get a valid export. > >Finally I did it in Safe Mode and it worked great > >Safe mode means that you were _not_ connected to the internet. That >is, no backups were being made to the cloud. You should not have any >backup being made of your TMG folders while TMG is running. This Odds are good that any "local" automatic backup (software that is commonly included with external Firewire/USB hard-drives, and might have been installed) was also disabled in safe mode. In short, ANY backup scheme that monitors the system for file changes should not be running if it is looking at any directory containing TMG data. I've never used such automatic back-up -- my external drives were purchased to provide additional storage (only one is used for back-ups, and that one is under control of a scheduled backup system that runs around midnight each week-end, doing one data partition each week. (The rollover scheme appears to go by 6-months, not 6-backups -- and the drive is too small to hold 24 differential backups per partition; 640GB free out 4TB) -- bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/