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Haven't used GEDexplorer personally but the developer states: - "Once you have a GEDCOM file you need to transfer it to your Android device (typically by connecting your device to your computer with a USB cable)." He makes no mention of using a Cloud service such as DropBox, so it's possible that th...

Mark (and anyone else interested), I've re-tried the installation process for Wine and Family Historian in both Ubuntu 20.04 and OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) and yes, the initial installation of FH did leave a frozen on screen image at the end of the installation process during/after the installation of no...

I currently have 153 Pools in my main project file, so you still have have plenty of headroom. Not that I want to start a competition :lol: Glad to hear the news about your swimming pools as there is great controversy about swimming pool closure in the UK. Just wondering if those water-free lanes ar...

Mark, One of the problems with linux installations is that the process of installing Wine is similar but not identical across all distributions and there is also limited consistency on which version of Wine is delivered in which Linux distribution. IMHO this is one of the reasons that will continue ...

Colin, Yes, this 'initial' release does look to be problematical, so I'm definitely holding back on testing on Catalina until I see some more positive comments. There is already one growing thread on the PlayOnMac User Forum reporting a problem that the 'lead' developer doesn't seem to have an immed...

PlayOnMac Version 4.4 was released on 30 June 2020 with MacOS 10.15.x (Catalina) compatibility, which should allow installation of Family Historian, Ancestral Sources etc. A surprising development as their main focus has been on the next full version. See: https://www.playonmac.com/en/news.html Warn...

@Mark1834, You can't avoid the NovaPDF installation because it's a built-in part of the Family Historian Installer, but as already mentioned it's useless in Wine/Linux because Wine cannot install usable Windows Driver packages. You can safely uninstall the NovaPDF package without affecting Family Hi...

Colin, Yes will have a close look and make any suggestions I can. Will not take offence if you ignore them :D If I set up another test Linux VM, is there any release you would prefer me to run installation/usage tests on? Ubuntu/Mint are probable the most commonly used from memory of forum questions...

Colin, Have run several Linux Distributions as virtual machines and all have readily installed Wine from their package repositories. The version of Wine that is offered by default can vary, with the more conservative distributions sticking with the mainstream Wine release cycle; and the more adventu...

David, I'm not quite so dismissive about the way the Census was organised/managed as some, although I would agree that the ED number is no longer important for finding online images, It was highly desirable when scanning images on microfilm not that many years ago, especially when trying to track do...

I have also noticed this occasional 'behaviour', which at first I thought might have been associated with working in a Virtual Machine (VM), where it seemed to occur more often and VMs can suffer with 'timing issues'. However, a Family Historian 'save' prior to commencing the preparation of each Anc...

Not sure how far you have researched this, but you could start here: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hel ... -1858-1937

And the simple question: What makes you believe he was legally divorced?

Mike, I am not basing my on pure assumptions. Since my last posting I have re-tried several full shutdowns and startups of Family Historian, with no change in FH behaviour at any point; i.e. the column settings in the 'View all media' window are always lost. However, I have also extended testing fur...

While I don't use Boot Camp, I'm not convinced that the issue described is caused by that mode of working because the scenario is identical in a Windows Virtual Machine on VirtualBox when using the 'View all media' window , i e. the text column shrinks back to the original size when you leave one pr...

Colin/Mike, Could this be significant: "Shared folders physically reside on the host and are then shared with the guest, which uses a special file system driver in the Guest Additions to talk to the host. For Windows guests, shared folders are implemented as a pseudo-network redirector. For Linux an...

For completeness, the new update behaves normally with my normal VirtualBox working setup as shown in first image, same as Colin's. The second image is from a Crossover setup. Will try to track down the "invalid ACL log file" Mervyn Edit: ICACLS.log contains only: "Mervyns-MacBook\crossover " Unfort...

John, See: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6374270?hl=en for information on what does and doesn't consume space on Google Drive. One thing to note is that files deleted (sent to 'Trash') will still consume space in Google Drive until the online Trash is emptied. However, (as I read it) files ...

Same result as Colin with a FH installation on a Windows 10 Pro Virtual Machine (VirtualBox). Musings: Could this be because (from the file path in Colin's screenshot) we both store our data on the Mac User's Drive using a 'network' connection and not within the Virtual Machine? That Drive is, of co...

Colin, I may be wrong but can't find any trace on the WineHQ site/Wiki of Windows Powershell commands having been programmed into Wine; and I also can't find any mention in Winetricks to adding Powershell features. Looking at Microsoft's Guidance, although Windows Powershell comes as standard with a...

Sorry, not sure what you mean about the screenshots being different. Apart from the text content; and that fact that I 'chopped off' the lower portion of the screen to focus more on the file path created they are identical. As far as the creation process: I just used the media 'screen' pictured belo...

I don't really have an answer for you, I only know that that the method I described auto-creates an absolute, rather than the usual relative, File Path. I'm open to any suggestions as to why this happens, but can't see it being a Family Historian 'bug' as I've never experienced any similar problem a...

Example: Family Historian running in a Windows 10 VM on VirtualBox with all Data held on the Host Computer 1. Added Image to the 'Media/Monumental Inscriptions' folder in a FH Project 2. Created a Media Record in Family Historian as shown in the attachment. 3. Added the media image by navigating to ...

I agree with @davidf's analysis of the behaviour that can occur when running software in a Virtual Machine (VM). Much depends on where user data is stored, i.e. within the VM (Guest), where behaviour should be entirely consistent with a 'normal' Windows installation, or on the Host Machine/another n...

Bill, Probably the easiest way to find what the Firebric (or any other software) changes in a GEDCOM, i.e. a 'pure' text file, would be to compare the before and after versions using one of the many free text comparison software tools available, e.g. https://winmerge.org . But I would suggest starti...

Old thread update. For me, using the standard Charting Companion plugin does automatically load the GEDCOM from the project currently open. Unfortunately that is the limit of its current 'intelligence', as it always loads the file with the focus on the first Individual entered, i.e. ID1 This is the...