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by blackbill
30 Jan 2023 10:28
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: source-driven data entry for 1921 census
Replies: 9
Views: 1069

Re: source-driven data entry for 1921 census

Thank you for your helpful comments. I was happily using Ancestral Sources but when I learned that V7 of FH included the tools for data entry that was what made me pay the £60 for upgrade. I'm disappointed to learn that 1921 has not been included. I will look at creating my own template once I get m...
by blackbill
29 Jan 2023 14:09
Forum: Plugin Technical Support & Development
Topic: source-driven data entry for 1921 census
Replies: 9
Views: 1069

source-driven data entry for 1921 census

Having recently obtained a lot of data from the 1921 census I decided to upgrade to Version 7 of FH as it includes inbuilt data entry (rather than using Ancestral Sources). I find that there is no template for the 1921 census data entry. Will this be made available?
by blackbill
22 May 2020 16:03
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Help with V6.2 failure
Replies: 29
Views: 18631

Re: Help with V6.2 failure

Thank you for your patience. In the project window I changed the location to My Documents\Family Historian Projects (the default setting) I then compared the permission settings in folders in C:\users\Bill\Documents\ with the folders in C:\Our_Documents\ (I have a project in C:\Our_Documents\ which ...
by blackbill
22 May 2020 12:12
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Help with V6.2 failure
Replies: 29
Views: 18631

Re: Help with V6.2 failure

Thank you Mike I hadn't tried updating my project until yesterday so I think the problem must have arisen when I changed the file location 3 weeks ago. I have tried updating the permissions as you suggested but get an error message "An error occurred while applying security information to: C:\u...
by blackbill
22 May 2020 09:35
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Help with V6.2 failure
Replies: 29
Views: 18631

Re: Help with V6.2 failure

Yes. Following your advice in that post I moved my files to the more conventional C:\users\Bill\Documents\Family Historian Projects.
So I suppose the question is how to get FH to recognise that is where the files are now located.
by blackbill
21 May 2020 09:58
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Help with V6.2 failure
Replies: 29
Views: 18631

Re: Help with V6.2 failure

I've been looking at the forums to try and see if anyone had the problem I am having and this seems to be similar. However the replies are long and complex so please forgive me for starting at the beginning. When I try to add anything to my project I get the following error message:- Failed to gener...
by blackbill
29 Apr 2020 11:54
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources
Replies: 5
Views: 3844

Re: error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources

I created the folder manually in the location it was expected to be and after adjusting the security settings it appears to have worked in FH. I will read the getting started notes and practise on the sample project.

Many thanks for your help.

Bill
by blackbill
29 Apr 2020 11:02
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources
Replies: 5
Views: 3844

Re: error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources

Thank you for your prompt reply. In my original post you can see that the error message states that access is denied to C\users\Bill\Documents\Ancestral Sources. This folder does not exist when I check in file explorer. My Family History Projects folder is located in C:\Our_Documents\Family Historia...
by blackbill
29 Apr 2020 09:21
Forum: Ancestral Sources
Topic: error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources
Replies: 5
Views: 3844

error creating log file folder in Ancestral Sources

I have loaded the Ancestral Sources plugin successfully but cannot use it as I get the error message:
Error: creating log file folder, Ancestral Sources can not start until this error is corrected. Error: Access to the path 'C\users\Bill\Documents\Ancestral Sources' is denied.
by blackbill
27 Jan 2018 23:46
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

Re: FH and windows 10

Thanks for that Mike. I have done as you suggested and it has partially worked. As you will see from the screenshot. Some files have produced thumbnails but most have not. Any thoughts?
by blackbill
27 Jan 2018 19:53
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

Re: FH and windows 10

Thanks for all your helpful comments. I took my old PC drive back to Currys and (as you probably know) nothing is ever fully deleted from a drive and I was able to get my missing .ged file back. I now have Family Historian working with all my data files. However I don't have my media files properly ...
by blackbill
23 Jan 2018 08:53
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

Re: FH and windows 10

Hi Mike Thank you for your continued support. Unfortunately I have cleared all files from my old computer. As I said in a previous post, everything seemed to be working well with the new PC so I prepared the old one for passing on. I'm going to seek help from Currys where I bought the PC as it's not...
by blackbill
22 Jan 2018 21:07
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

Re: FH and windows 10

Thank you both David and Mike. Here is where I'm at. 1. When I transferred from my old PC to the new one I carefully followed the Migration Guide and for a couple of weeks it all went well with FH. I was even able to open my project a couple of days ago, although I don't know how and have not been a...
by blackbill
22 Jan 2018 12:44
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

Re: FH and windows 10

Hi Mike Thanks very much for your reply. You are right that Windows 10 is very similar to Windows 7 but I made the mistake of not fully understanding how Onedrive works when I first got my PC and have got myself into a mess with files. However I am slowly getting that sorted and is not the subject f...
by blackbill
21 Jan 2018 13:47
Forum: General Usage
Topic: FH and windows 10
Replies: 17
Views: 10527

FH and windows 10

I have recently bought a new PC which has updated me from Windows 7 to Windows 10. My Family Historian is version 6. I have found Windows 10 to be extremely challenging with all sorts of things, particularly the awful onedrive which seems to take over and leave me totally confused about where my fil...
by blackbill
09 Apr 2016 10:39
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Location of Places on Maps
Replies: 1
Views: 1943

Location of Places on Maps

I have recently upgraded from FH v4 to v6.2. The maps window in v6 is new to me and all my places have been automatically geocoded. However I'm finding that a large number of my places (mainly in Scotland) are shown to be in USA. I have checked my PC location (which is UK) and in the map window pref...
by blackbill
07 Apr 2016 19:01
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Unrecognised file format
Replies: 2
Views: 2651

Re: Unrecognised file format

Hi Mike

Apologies for posting in the wrong place. Yes it was sent to me from someone else, so I will have to get them to follow your instructions. And yes I have been thinking to upgrading to v6 so this might just be the encouragement to do so!
by blackbill
07 Apr 2016 15:58
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Unrecognised file format
Replies: 2
Views: 2651

Unrecognised file format

I have a .ged file created in FH v6 and when I try to open it in my FH v4 I get the error message "unrecognised file format". Any ideas?
by blackbill
24 Feb 2016 14:02
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

John & Nick Thank you both for your advice and apologies for the delay in replying to you. I took ill last Saturday and am just now getting back to normal. I have done what you suggested and all is now well. I'm thinking I may have caused the problem by storing my backups in a different folder f...
by blackbill
19 Feb 2016 13:26
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

John - You are right the new project is stored in This PC - Documents - Family Historian projects. However it does not show up on the projects window in FH.

Nick - Yes the Media 27/1/2016 folder contains all my photos

Bill
by blackbill
19 Feb 2016 12:40
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

Hi Nick I repeated the restore and this time called the project Black & Riach (adding the &). It was not listed in the project window. However in the project window I clicked on "new project" and brought it in that way. All seems to be ok except my multimedia files are missing. Bill
by blackbill
19 Feb 2016 10:19
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

Hi Nick I tried again using the restore and it worked this time (including my multimedia files). However when I shut FH down and reopened it again it couldn't find the files. The error message was as per my original post "C;/users/Black's/Documents/Family Historian Projects/Black Riach Project....
by blackbill
19 Feb 2016 10:08
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

Hi Nick Some progress! I did the search for *ged files and although I found several old one the most recent wasn't included. I went to where I know I store my most recent backup. The file path is This Computer Documents Bills Documents Family History Family Historian Backup - this is where the three...
by blackbill
18 Feb 2016 22:33
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

Hi Nick Thanks for your patience. I have the following in the 'Black Riach.fh_data' folder name dated modified type Log files 2/6/2013 File Folder Media 27/1/2016 File Folder Plugin Data 2/6/2013 File Folder Black Riach Project -2012-05-20 0043 17/3/2013 compressed (zipped)folder Black Riach Project...
by blackbill
18 Feb 2016 21:40
Forum: General Usage
Topic: Upgrading to Windows 10
Replies: 19
Views: 11229

Re: Upgrading to Windows 10

Yes I have backups on an external drive and I also have a copy on a laptop. As I said in my original post I have tried using the restore facility within FH but it did not work. I have now tried using restore with my backup file and it still doesn't work with the error message "Restore failed. U...