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    1. Re: [TMG] Strange Behavior -- explanation please
    2. Carl Jón Denbow via
    3. Sorry for the duplicate messages. The first one was not sent in plain text, so I thought it would be rejected. -- Carl > Carl Jón Denbow via <mailto:tmg@rootsweb.com> > Monday, June 29, 2015 3:48 PMvia Postbox > <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sumlink&utm_campaign=reach> > I have a problem, which I've solved, but I would like an explanation > from anyone who is a FoxPro expert and/or has the relevant programming > experience. Today, out of the blue, I started getting the following > error when I tried to export a GEDCOM file, and also when I tried to > read my TMG database with Gedviewer2 (but not when I read the database > with TMG Utility): "Record is out of range; 4342 G_Event." On the off > chance that this referred to something wrong with the entries for Person > 4342 I went to that entry. I didn't see anything wrong, but I went > ahead and edited the woman's married name from just "Toland" to > "Elizabeth Toland" by adding her given name in the appropriate field. I > figured that maybe in re-writing part of her entry the program might > correct whatever hidden problem might be lurking. Much to my surprise > this actually worked. I was then able to make the GEDCOM export that > had failed numerous times. I had even uninstalled and reinstalled TMG > in case there was a corruption in the program files themselves -- that > after a repair install that also didn't solve the problem. None of that > helped. Only the funny business I did with entry 4342 fixed things. > Now, what in world did I actually do, and what would have been the > underlying problem? Curious minds want to know! ;-) > > Thanks. > > Carl > 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 -- Sent from Postbox <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campaign=reach>

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