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IMO it is not as easy as you make it sound to change a plugin name. It means managing two plugins in parallel for a while until users of the old plugin switch to the new one. The new plugin will need adjusting to pick up 'sticky' settings files for either the old or new name. It means editing all th...

If users don't read important details then I have little sympathy if they misunderstand what they are using.

See the https://www.family-historian.co.uk/activation-help page.
I suspect what you are seeing is not activation codes but Device codes on which the licence is ACTIVE.
i.e. The Device codes listed on the left should match the system names of your computers.

From the https://www.family-historian.co.uk/install7 download page:
"Family Historian runs on the following operating systems only: Windows 11, 10 and 8"

With hindsight the plugin perhaps could have had a better name, but its name is different from the program. Its name is "Ancestral Sources Data Entry" and not "Ancestral Sources". Its Plugin Store description is as follows and includes a hyperlink to the program: This invokes the...

Ah! Now I understand but the Help did not convey that process to me. Perhaps the Help needs to make it clearer that the only difference between the two options is that in the first case the non-cut-out Media is kept in the original Project and in the second case it is copied to the export folder. Th...

That can occur if forward slash / is used instead or a URL is the media link. - Just to be thorough I manually edited the FILE link to replace a \ back slash with a / forward slash to see what happened. Media record URL can be opened the same as any non-image media by double-clicking its icon or cl...

I have the following comments on this latest version... If the Media record FILE link does not include a backslash \ then the following error is produced: [string "C:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian..."]:544: attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value (local 'j') That can occur i...

If the media file is not actually 'used' by the FH Project, then it won't be included in the exported data. 'used' means an Individual, Family, or Source record links to a Media Record that links to the media file. It does sound like TNG is holding on to some old data. Adrian should be able to resol...

I have moved this to the FH General Usage forum as it is not an AS problem. Ron's advice is essentially correct to merge the two Individual records. The details will depend on how much associated data you have added to the two records. i.e. Do they both have a Birth Event and a Death Event with the ...

Focusing on the 318 missing files, do they exist in the FH ...\Public\Export\[0]\ folder? Are they referenced from a Media Record in the FH Project? i.e. In the FH Media Window are they listed in the Filename column? Are those media files displayed in the thumbnails pane on the right? Is the Media R...

Ben, I cannot explain why that error has arisen. It has never happened before to my knowledge. Instead use Windows File Explorer to delete the ...\Public\Export\ folder contents, then run the plugin export. BTW: Have you performed all the command tasks recommended before running the plugin as advise...

Please confirm that if you use Empty Export Folder and then export the GEDCOM whether media files exist in just the FH ...\Public\Export\ folder or just the ...\Public\Export\[0]\ folder or both. None of them should have a prefix, i.e. they should all have the same filenames as your original files. ...

Have you seen the advice in Export Gedcom File (TNG) The Next Generation ? That advises to set all five Media Collection folders to media . What confused me was that FH in Windows uses a M edia folder whereas I though TNG used a m edia folder. You should copy everything in the FH ...\Public\Export\ ...

One thing that I found strange was that you implied the media files path was ...\Public\Export\Media\[0]\ Whereas it should be ...\Public\Export\[0]\ with the settings you chose, i.e. no \Media\ subfolder. There should be no media files in the ...\Public\Export\ folder. You forgot to explain why you...

KFN, your advice may be confusing because a Birth Date calculated from a Death Date in 1919 at Age 79 would be Calculated 1840.

Ben, please explain your reasons for changing the default settings for the options of Multimedia Preference: and Part Frame File Naming Format: as most TNG users seem to prefer the defaults. Currently, (FULL~LMO) only exports the full images and any part frame Link to Face/Detail settings are ignore...

FH has the =CalcDate(...) function that can be used in any Expressions such as Records Window or Query columns.
e.g.
=CalcDate( %INDI.DEAT.DATE%, -79 )

Backup is never a bad idea, but if you are only worried about losing Facts such as Adoption from Individual records the automatic Snapshots taken every day are usually enough. They can be restored uisng File > Backup/Restore > Revert to Snapshot... If you are worried about corruptions to definitions...

I'm sorry I did not recognise the cause straight away. I had lot going on yesterday.
If the error reporting had been working I'd have probably identified the problem sooner.
I assumed that any plugin involving file handling would be tested with files using non-ANSI character paths.

Rich, the flaw in your argument is that database Facts such as Adoption are attached to Individual records and not attached to Fact Type definitions. They are only associated by Name, i.e. The Fact Type definition with the same Name as the Fact is applied to that Fact. It is somewhat similar to File...

CopyCroppedFile(...) fails at the very first im.FileImageLoad(source) but the if Error then return does not report the 'Image load error ' .. Error . IMO such error reporting needs to be fixed. The failure is due to an accented UTF-8 character in my usual Project Location filepath. However, any Pro...

No, you would NOT loose any Citation nor anything else. Why would you think that?
Changing any Fact Type definitions has NO affect on the Facts data held in the Project.
The Delete operation confirms that.

With the Diagram displayed use Diagram > Options > Dimensions tab and increase the Minimum / Maximum / Standard box width values. Also look at More Dmensions... and reduce some Vertical Dimensions. Also try Diagram > Layout & Scaling > Make All Boxes the Same Width to increase them all to the la...

I'm surprised you cannot repeat the symptoms I described. I've just reset the Family Historian Sample Project to be sure we would both have the same dataset. Then run the Export Public GEDCOM File - V0-3 plugin with the settings shown below: image.png Open the exported GEDCOM standalone in FH and th...