At 9/27/2015 10:05, Russell Dorr wrote: >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? This usually means that something in TMG got screwed up somewhere along the line -- probably during a power failure, a brown-out or a voltage spike (having a UPS or at least a power strip with suppression technology usually prevent this, but it can still happen). What the message is saying is that one of the project files is missing (in your case, the Name Dictionary, but it could be some other project file). The simple solution would be to do a Restore of your latest project Backup. My guess is that you have been experiencing some little oddities during the last work session or so. Nothing really wrong, but displays are odd and need to be re-displayed or you need to try the Picklist or Project Explorer filtering again, or some other little something. Usually the second try, everything seems to work and you just continue as everything now seems fine. This is TMG saying that it isn't well and as you continue, things just keep happening. At times like this, I would suggest re-installing TMG. And to make sure that you get a good reinstall, do an uninstall of TMG first (this just removes the program and leaves your folders). Then do the reinstall. Be sure you have your Serial number although you probably don't need it if you reinstall in the same manner as the original install. After the install is complete, do a Restore of your project. Hopefully, the Restored Backup is not that far back and you have as easy recovery of work that was done since the Backup. Lee Hoffman/KY