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The related Wish item Ref 460 Localise Settings to Projects would help resolve this issue, as well as another nagging problem I’ve had with FH since I came here (only a year ago). There are some settings I switch back-and-forth for different projects – It’s become “muscle-memory”, but it would be sw...

Yes! All is well.
I’m sorry if I sent you chasing rabbits. But whatever you did to accommodate my (preferred) date format will be good. Thank you for your work and for your patience!

New problem...
Installed and ran v.3.2.2.
...After the Close Program> OK-Quit Plugin, the next expected dialog (Do you want to continue and import Registry Data Keys [Y/N] ?) appears in a Windows Command Prompt pane. I tried to answer there, and everything closes.

Clue? Out of curiosity, I looked at the various file dates that seem to be of issue. For example, the one shown in my screenshot, ...\Application\Preferences\prefs.dat; the reported 'abnormal' "Date Modified 3/11/22 6:00:14 PM" is actually "...3/11/22 5:00 PM". There is exactly o...

I first ran the revised plugin (Restore) using the 'same' backup file, and got essentially the same result. Several 'new' pop-up's showed, each with detail reporting the 'problem date' and the full file path. Example: Screenshot 2022-03-27 093002.jpg I clicked OK through 2 or 3 of these, and then cl...

I bought a new laptop and installed my 'other' license of FH7 (7.0.11.0) on it. I followed the kb-article/family-historian-copy-and-migration-guide strictly. I copied my projects and data OK, but can't get my settings and customizations. I ran the backup-and-restore plugin, also per instruction. But...

To clarify… This is what mine looked like. I still don’t know enough about plugin coding to speak with any authority, but my case may be related to the Clean Up Notes plugin. (?) I had run that first (to delete the leading blank lines), because it destroys the rich text formatting; and then ran Move...

Mike, I had noticed this, too. Running the plugin a second time unexpectedly ‘chops off’ the “h” in “http”. I easily fixed it via a search & replace to the GEDCOM. There normally wouldn’t be a need to run this plugin another time, but I had merged a small branch from another FTM import, and used...

Yeah, and two separate data philosophies united by a common genealogy program/programme. :D Well, that was ugly… I greatly underestimated the effort to do this. “Don’t try this at home without adult supervision.” 872 Sources * x 2.5 Fields (average per source to merge) x__4 clicks ea. (pick>Discard,...

Mike, I know you’re a dedicated Method-1 Splitter; I’m equally committed to the Lumper contingent. You say “programme”, I say “program”; we’ve no need to argue that point. (please accept my commitment, and forgive my humor/humour.) My ‘other’ projects are not subsets of my primary – they are complet...

I’ve spent a lot of time & effort cleaning up Source , Repository and Place Records in my primary project file, and I want to “copy/overwrite” these into my other projects (which use the same). I created a new Project (with Split Tree Helper and some GEDCOM edit) that contains only these Records...

Thank you, thank you!
"sophisticated capability" indeed.

I’m not sure if this belongs in the General or Plugin subs… All of my Generic Sources have a trailing semi-colon at the end of the “Publisher Info” value string. (These were all imported from FTM; this appears to be an artifact of the FTM export.) This semi-colon “messes up” my formatted Footnotes, ...

1.5.3 on 7.0.2.0
Tried all record types in the Records Window & multiple records each.
All is well!

Thanks!
That worked exactly as I hoped.
This is a great, simple 'trick' for Lumpers and Generic-Sourcers.

And, besides all things FH, I'm slowly learning the correct terminology for the pieces.

- rob

This is somewhat an extension of several earlier threads, but those discussions went elsewhere, so I start a new question… As an “importee” with years of composed data, all of my Sources are ‘generic sources’. Even the very few ‘templated’ sources I had before import to FH came over as generic. That...

Excellent, Mike! Thank you!
- rob

Thank you for the help & comments! The List All Citations for a Selected Source plugin is perfectly useful for my issue. (Thanks to Jane!) I should have dug around in the Plugin Store more before crying for help. Mike said, “ Perhaps the lack of Citation fields [in Citations to Source Record ] s...

When I do a “Citations to Source Record”, the Result Set is way too wide to read. Scrolling over and changing column widths works to a point, but it takes several scroll/adjust width/scroll, etc. to get to the far-right column (footnote text). And sometimes this column reaches some sort of limit and...

I post a follow-up for the benefit of other FTM migrants; may it be of help. One note of clarification: my experience is FTM2014.1-to-FH7; your mileage may vary. FTM exports web links entered into that “Web Address” field of the Citation window (#2 in MFriend’s screenshot above) without concatenatio...

I am new to FamilyHistorian. This forum and the one on groups.io are wonderful. Having not just one, but two excellent community support venues is amazing to this refugee from FTM and RM. I almost daily peruse both forums. I often just pick a thread and read it; I learn something new about FH every ...

Mike, Thanks for your reply. I understand the concept of Note Records and Local Notes , and your explanation of the terminology is excellent. I also agree that the culprit is FTM’s “problematic” (for lack of a better word) GEDCOM export, and/or the internal workings of the program. –More on that in ...

I think this is probably (?) an Import issue, so I post here. I recently imported from FTM2014.1. I checked and validated both the FTM export GEDCOM and the resultant FH GEDCOM. To “validate” the transfer, I opened both FTM and FH, and looked back-and-forth to see what went where, and insured nothin...

Sweet!
thank you, Mike.

I’m a newbie, so forgive my inexperience.
Is there a quick key or shortcut to expand or collapse the entire data structure tree in the “All” tab of the Property Boxes – without clicking each “+” or “-“, or highlighting an item and pressing “enter” ?
I’ve searched Help, but can’t find it.