Karen, You've received some help already. Where do you live? There may be a TMG group that is near you that might be able to help. Patt On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Karen Isaacson Leverich via < tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > First off, I do realize I'm late to the party and support for TMG has been > discontinued. > > But I do need some help! I've been sent a Google drive with all of the > genealogy files of a recently deceased genealogist ... Word files, image > files, etc. Buried somewhere in this structure of folders and sub-folders > MIGHT be her TMG database. The 1999 TMG manual says backups have the > suffice .sqz, and I have found one such file. But 1999 was a long time ago. > :-) If she were using a newer TMG, would .sqz still be the suffix? > > And what suffix(es) should I be looking for in order to find her most > current (not backed up) database? > > Second ... assuming I find the files. Or the .sqz file is good stuff. I > have a CD-ROM (hers) of TMG 6.x, and there is a long string written on it, > presumably an access code. Is that all I need in order to install it? What > version(s) of Windows would this work with? Or I've been told RootsMagic > will import a TMG database ... the .sqz one? How much data is lost or does > it do it all? Even if TMG is no longer supported, can I simply buy my own > copy anyhow? > > Her daughter and I are trying to finish up a research project which was > almost done, and while we have the written reports (the Word files), the > sources are in her database (she was super careful about that), so we > really need in. :-) > > Thanks for any help or advice! > > Karen > 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