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Hi Mike, sorry for the delay in letting you know the outcome of all your hard work helping me with exporting GEDCOM to my cousin. I have just heard back from her that all went through well and that she incorporated it into her new MyHeritage program. I couldn't have done this without you, thank you ...

I found the file through clicking on my documents folder but it is in my family tree project folder under that name. I did tell you how confused I am....
I will pass on that link to my cousin thank you and will let you know if we are successful.

I do have that file in my Documents folder Mike and it is 62.6kb I needed to make sure I could try to get it to her so will now get in touch and ask her how she wants me to send it. Fingers crossed all will be well. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your help, there is no way I could have done ...

All done Mike, thanks again

OMG I am an idiot and didn't refer back to my notes you sent. Done it by pressing the button you told me to!!!

You were correct! I now have an error message when I 'close memo'. ..e\Family Historian\Plugins\Export Gedcom File.fh_lua:10671: attempt to call global 'fhSetStringEncoding' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...e\Family Historian\Plugins\Export Gedcom File.fh_lua:10671: in function 'ExportGedcom' ...e\...

Hi Mike, I clicked on Export Gedcom File but did not get a pop up box which asked me to select GEDCOM Destination! There was an option to add all or individual records. I've clicked a few buttons with no success. There was an option to exclude Multi media files etc. I must be doing something wrong b...

Hi Mike, me again. I believe I've now been successful in running the plug in, thank you. Where do I go from here, please? Sorry to be taking up so much of your time.

Hi Mike, my computer says I have successfully download and installed the plug in file but a pop up tells me there is an error 'Family Historian Pkugins\Export Gedcom File.fh_lua:3950 attempt to index a nil value' I highlighted the Gedcom export but it won't run. Any ideas....?

Thanks you so much Mike for that affirmation. I will wait until I have the time tomorrow to follow your guide as my granddaughter is here at the moment and through the evening.

Thanks also to you ColeValleyGirl for your support!

Your time is much appreciated.

I think my problem Mike is that I fear losing all my tree! I am 74 and have been inputting data for a fair few years now but that's as far as I've gone. Do I just press the download on the screen for the plug in? What will happen once I download it? Sorry to be so ridiculous about this!

Phew, this is beyond me I'm afraid, like learning a new language! Thanks for your help and advice Mike, I will keep looking and hoping to understand

Thanks I'll take a look

It seems I am still running FH V5 although I did try to update and thought I had! Unfortunately I have no idea what the Plugin Store is or where it may be! Any help and advice you can give will be much appreciated, thank you

A relative has asked if I can export our family tree to her. She is using My Heritage site. Is it possible to GEDCOM the information to her on this site? Thanks

Hi Mike, don't give me credit where it's not due :-) My son comes over every now and again and backs up my computer to the external hard drive, I'm sorry to say I don't know what method he uses but think it may be that he copies my project folder to the hardrive. I will ask him for future reference....

Hi again, Mike, I have now read through the info twice and understand some of it. I have now downloaded the upgrade to V5 to 5.0.11 as instructed on the info. I have an external hard drive which I use to back up but may treat myself to a new one for downloading my family tree info! I don't believe I...

Forgot to say, yes that looks similar to the installation key I have.

Thank you Mike. One more question, should I download the project onto an external hard disk from the old computer before uploading to the new? Actually one more question (sorry) if I am successful, or should I say when, would you advise updating from version 5 to 7 or no need? I hate not understandi...

With reference to the lost registration key many moons ago, I remember now I had saved it onto my hard drive in Documents and had to go in my loft (luckily I hadn't thrown the computer away!) and set everything up to retrieve it!

Hi all, I had forgotten that I needed to revisit this forum to read replies, thank you! Thanks also for those responses. In answer to the questions asked I do still have the cd and the installation key, well there are numbers and letters written on boxes and the cover of the cd so am guessing that i...

Hi, I have been running FH version 5 for many years (only a basic user to be honest!) but now need to buy a new computer which will be running Windows 10/11 instead of Windows 7. I have been reading/researching the best way to do this but keep getting more and more confused. I am so worried about lo...

I am an avid reader, Mike, and never start on anything until I've read the 'rules'! Unfortunately, I am a much better learner, as I said, if I see something being done rather than having to understand many pages of instruction. I can see that is the only way for me to progress with this program thou...

Mike you are a true star and computer 'teacher'. I have just spent a fair time at the computer deleting many 'no spouses' etc. and my family tree is now looking much more normal! I will try to keep it this way! Many, many thanks.

Thanks Mike, I did see a number of the no spouse in the records and wondered how this had happened - I will try to sort this out using your suggestions. Fingers crossed this puts it right and I don't lose something I'd rather not! Back to the reading board for me! Your help is much appreciated.