I'm going to attempt to answer this from memory; sorry, I don't have time to test and verify. But this will be close to exact, anyway: Accents interact with flags, and one or the other (here's the part I'm not remembering for sure) of these is kept in a file that's shared by all projects in the same folder. This means that if a user has multiple projects in the same folder (say the TMG default of The Master Genealogist v9\projects), the flags and/or the accents must be manually synchronized in all projects (even if the flags/accents are not used in all projects). (There's some sort of indexing which makes the order of the flags and/or accents critical as well. In other words, the third (say) flag and third accent will relate to each other, even if they're not the correct pair. With multiple projects in the same folder, the user will have to not only have all the same flags and accents across all the projects, but must have them in the same order.) The other solution to this is to set up a separate folder for each project (e.g. The Master Genealogist v9\projects\project1, The Master Genealogist v9\projects\project2, The Master Genealogist v9\projects\project3). With this setup, the shared files are not shared, but are duplicated, one per project. Flags/accents (and any other files which are normally shared) can then be set independently in each project. Without verifying this, I'll presume that Terry has a page which tells how to separate projects into different folders. Rick Van Dusen On 10/10/2015 5:19 PM, Kay & John (Bill) Sturgeon OAM via wrote: > I have 3 projects in my program. One is the main, the other two are > names in common. > > I only have accents set up in my main, the others are default. I rarely > update the names in common projects, but when I do and return to my main > project, it then has the default ones. > I load my saved accents see the writing on the bottom left hand side > reflecting this, but always have to reset up i.e. add my ancestor > flagged colours and move them to the top of the list. I resave my > accent file. All is good till the next time I change projects. > > Is there something I am missing. > > Kay

Kay - Rick is correct. If your projects are in separate folders, the accents and filters in a project will be unique to that project. If all the projects (note there are over 100 files in a single project) are kept in a single folder, the accents and filters can be shared by (and listed in) all those projects - and some folks do prefer that option, particularly if the accents and filters apply to all the people. I have always kept my projects in separate folders, with their own accents, flags, and filters. There are instructions in Help for keeping projects in separate folders. The TMG Data File Storage (DFS) system is explained in Help under Data File Storage. You can also download the article I wrote when the folder system first came out. The folder names in that article have changed a bit over the years, but the principle of the three TMG folders (mine/ours/theirs) is the same. I think it is an elegant design - fitting specific TMG files into the MS Windows files-access rules. Wherever you keep your projects, you will find life with TMG more simple and less error prone if you understand the DFS system. DFS article for download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/txd6404mcwvmhip/tmg7dfs.doc?dl=0 The article also has a list of the filters (at that time) and their file extensions (to identify them). You may be surprised at just how many really neat filters there are - and where to find them. Virginia