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P.S. Please do not ask unrelated questions on someone else's post, rather start your own topics in future.

Can somebody please put me on the right track for getting my FH software to open on the same project by default, chosen by me. At present I enter the desired Project and press Edit / File Root / Set as File Root. But next time I load the program it presents an unwanted Family. I am obviously doing ...

Can you please advise me on using the merge/compare feature. When I choose that option from the menu the screens drops into Windows Explorer and leaves me 'cold'. What do I do next ? The merge compare is to compare to another Gedcom or Project, so you need to select the 2nd file. There are detailed...

Don't forget you can hide boxes on any diagram, by using a Query to select the boxes and then hide selected boxes.

You can also set up a text scheme which can leave "private" individuals boxes there but hide all the contents.

Using a standard diagram text scheme, I am getting dates shown as BC where they have the B.C suffix. What Text scheme are you using for your diagram.

I can not really see the problem as it is not uncommon on extension stores to see multiple related/similar plugins. I am happy to remove any or all of my plugins from the store, but I do not think it is Calico's place to remove plugins unless they are dangerous. My plugin was never intended to suppo...

No

Should be fixed now for the metro theme.

Unfortunately, we use the standard PHPBB so unless the developers of PHPBB can fix the problem, there is not much I can do. I can only suggest using the Remember me option so you are safely logged in BEFORE posting.

Actually the most common reason for large numbers of empty fields is when importing from other programs.

It won't actually update or do anything as you can not change the Sex of an existing person from the plugin.

So it does not stop you using the plugin as far as I can see. Do you get an error if you continue?

Yes, I suspect you added the line to hosts, when testing the new server when we moved last time and forgot to remove it afterwards. Nothing on standard windows writes into that file and you normally need Admin rights to do so. If anyone is interested there is a good article on the subject here https...

One possible cause is your Laptop is either running Windows 7 which is not supported for Family Historian 7, or Windows 8 without all the last Windows updates. If you raise the issue, remember to include the Windows Version and service pack you have installed and the EXACT error message you are rece...

The server was upgraded on the 16th September. One possibility is you have an entry for the old IP in your local host table on the PC or the router, from when we moved last time. Try checking the hosts in the etc folder in Windows. Krystal may have had some helper code forcing you over to the new se...

Some how your computer or ISP has picked up the old server IP.

Try clearing you local DNS cache in Windows and your router to fix it. Doing a WHO.IS for the domain shows both are set to 77.72.2.82

Another thought, if you have mobile data on your phone do you have the same problem there?

The links work fine both ways, it does look like an issue with the DNS look up for the fhug.org.uk variant.

Mike please confirm the values you are getting for the two pings.

I am not seeing any errors with any of the links you posted.

If you ping www.fhug.org.uk and fhug.org.uk do you get the same ip for both?
It should be 77.72.2.82

Just go to Tools>Preferences and Advanced from the General tab and set it to Load as needed, then close your Project and reopen and change the setting back.

If that does not do it you can manually delete the thumbnail cache from the project, do not delete the other caches.

When I view it on the record window it includes the time.

Why not simply use fhCallBuiltInFunction to call =LastUpdated()

You can either add a labelled text field in the note and include that in your sentence template, or simply add a Religion attribute to provide an additional sentence, or just customise the sentence on the event when you want to include the religion in the sentence.

There is no end of each page option, the option I suspect you have is end of record on same page, this is not the end of each page. In practice this means you get sources at the end of each individual summary, but if you are using combining reports like Ancestors by generation the sources will be at...

This is normally caused by a 3rd party program trying to copy or sync the file FH is writing. Try disabling syncing for what ever software you use and try the save again.

They are UDF Uncategorised Data Fields. They normally occur when importing from other programs.
see
https://fhug.org.uk/kb/kb-article/handl ... ta-fields/