Dave, A thought has just occurred!!?? If you have your old drive with the .fdb file set up as a slave or external drive, have you tried loading the file directly from that drive?
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Dave Keeney Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 5:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Bold text not showing bold I got the import to work (pilot error). But it didn't help. Looking at the gedcom the <b> text </b> are still there, ie. they didn't get converted. What's the difference between the <b> and the double bracket codes <<b>>. Should I be seeing those instead? Was there any changes regarding this in the latest release of Legacy 7..5 (?). I believe the old file was from 7.5 but it's possible I hadn't updated yet on the old system. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Dave Keeney <dave.kee...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for your efforts Ron. No backup, no USB, etc. I just added a new drive to my computer and installed Win7 on it. Since the old drive was still in the system I just copied fdb from the old drive to the new c: drive after installing Legacy. I do use IDrive to backup my files to the Internet. As another test I downloaded the most recent backup from IDrive and tried that. The result was the same. I believe all drives are NTFS. No, I'm not using a gedcom to import although I'm trying that to see if I can get something to work. I typically have used export gedcom with the convert to html option for import to TNG and that has always worked great too. But since I don't have TNG reinstalled yet I haven't tried that. But I was going to try the same export option and reimport to Legacy to see if that helps. But I'm having a problem there right now too. I exported "all", UTF-8, "Convert formatting codes to HTML". When importing back it appears to import all of the file (# of people, families, etc.) but the importing dialog box never goes away. It looks like it's complete but but there's no "complete", "done", etc. button, only "Cancel". Dave On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Ron Ferguson <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: Dave, I’m afraid that I am not totally clear here – are you copying the .fdb file (or back-up) to a USB stick and then plugging that into your Win7 machine and dragging the file from the stick to the C Drive? I am at something of a loss if that is the case – it’s a process which I use regularly without problem. I wonder if your USB stick may be using a different File System ie.. FATS whilst your PCs are using NTFS, or some other variation of the two, although I would not expect that to cause a problem. If you are copying the .fdb file, have you tried copying the back-up and using File>File Restore to get it into your Win7 installation? I freely admit that I am on a fishing trip here! Another thought which comes to mind, although a little more messy would be to use Dropbox, or load it into the Cloud eg. MSN Skydrive (I think it’s still around) and copy that way. Like Dennis thought, when I got into bed I was wondering if you were using a GEDCOM, but apparently not. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ <SNIP> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
