- I received the following advice when I couldn't open my project.  It worked for me. - Judi Baumgarner - - Teresa Ghee Elliott Try restoring backup to another name. Sounds like it needs to delete the project files and then restore, but that's complicated to explain over email.May 13 at 11:00am · Like - Judi Alexander Baumgarner Thanks, Teresa. I created a new folder in T...M...G...v9\Projects\ and it restored my latest backup. Any suggestions for what I should do next, now that I have my project open?May 13 at 11:33am · Like - Teresa Ghee Elliott Just make sure you use that one from now on. Make a backup!!!! Then you can delete the old folder. Go slow. Make sure you have the right folder, and save that backup in case it doesn't work. But it sounds like you are home free. Make sure no images are in the project folder.May 13 at 11:36am · Like On Sunday, September 27, 2015 9:29 AM, Patt Ricketts via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: Bud, Something like that happened to me about a year and a half ago. After I did an optimize I was getting an error. I had to restore from backup. My solution was to backup before I did an optimize and copy the directory so I could replace the file that was missing. I was then able to do a validate and had no problem with a 2nd optimize. The problem stopped when 6 months later my computer died. So it may have been a failing hard drive. Good luck! Patt On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Russell Dorr via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all: > I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime.  I've managed > to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this > great program. > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, > sample, select. etc.  All choices are available except the "last" which is > grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would > happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES > (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? > Bud Dorr > > > > 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 -- Patt Ricketts www.jackandpatt.com 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