Bonnie and Hank,
Have you considered putting only the gedcom file on the external drive.
Then also providing each person with the address for the LDS site where they
can download the Personal Ancestral File program; free. That will import
the gedcom file and has quite a range of print formats one of which should
be adequate although possibly not identical to the FTM chart you use.
Hal
-----Original Message-----
From: Diana Muir [mailto:dmuir@intelligented.com]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:10 PM
To: MDGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [MDGEN] External Hard Drive
No, it still needs to be on the hard drive. You can store the gedcom on
the external, but the program won't work from there, unless you install
it there to start with.
Diana
Bonnie Henriquez wrote:
Hank
Bonnie here from California. I am wondering if you ever figured out how
to put everything on an external drive. I saw the response to this
original email saying: You can transfer the gedcom, but not the program.
The program is required to be on the hard drive so that it can link
appropriately to
all the .dll files in the windows subdirectory in order to run the
program.
Have you figured anything else out yet?
I had to take a break from genealogy because of an external house
painting project, minor surgery and volunteer work on a conference. Even
after I have retired it seems like there is never enough time in the
day.
Have a great day. Bonnie (Mumma is someplace back there)
-----Original Message-----
From: Muma, Harold [mailto:HMuma@towson.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 4:41 AM
To: MDGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [MDGEN] External Hard Drive
I have all of my genealogy data is on Family Tree Maker version 6. I
have been trying to transfer it from my internal hard drive to my Maxtor
external hard drive. It seems that FTM version 6 interprets the external
hard drive as a disk and wont permit the transfer. Does anyone know if
FTM Version 11 or Version 11+ 2005 up date will allow it? It seems to me
that if I could put the entire program and all of my data on a USB Flash
Drive I could give a copy to each of my children, thus avoiding the tack
of putting it all on paper. It would also preserve the data incase my
computer crashes.
I would appreciate any help with this project. Thanks you.
Hank Muma
hmuma(a)towson.edu
==== MDGEN Mailing List ====
List Admin.: Christopher T. Smithson; wsmithso(a)erols.com
==== MDGEN Mailing List ====
List Admin.: Christopher T. Smithson; wsmithso(a)erols.com