Hi, Sandra. I've been following this thread with interest. Mike's advice is all good so I won't repeat anything. But I do want to emphasize the importance of opening only one version of FH at a time.

Sorry Sandra but I am not sure I understand the full picture. I had assumed that the FH File > Project Window has its Location pointing inside the OneDrive folder at the Family Historian Projects

Have you created the Spanish Fact Set by cloning/copying the Standard Fact Set? In that case, the Baptism tag is the same in both Fact Sets and so does NOT need changing. What you must do is use

I have unticked the Files On-Demand setting and all folders in File Explorer, both OneDrive and PC, are now marked with a white tick on a green background icon. When hovering over the OneDrive icon

Thanks Lorna all in hand perhaps I just need to slow down a bit but when those brick walls suddenly start to crumble its hard not to collect as much data as you can , lols! Shirley

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i. I've just downloaded the Change Fact Tag Plugin and wanted to use it to change Baptism-Standard Fact Set to Baptism-Spanish Fact Set (which I have just created changing the text in order to produce

Sorry Shirley that you have run into that problem. Autosave every 5 minutes, together with the final prompt to Save if there are outstanding changes, has never failed before to my knowledge. I can

Shirley, Before you start to re-enter any data, I strongly recommend that you try to work out what went wrong the first time. You don’t want it to happen again! With autosave every five minutes

Yes, with a lot of catching up to do it will take some time. It all depends on the size of the files, and media images are large. Also, the upload speed from PC to the Internet is typically about

Hi Mike, Thank you for your help but I have decided to bite the bullet and re-enter the data [at some point]!!! I had it set to autosave every 5 minutes so thought I had everything covered. It

Hello Mike, I had not realised it took such a long time to sync folders/files over the internet or, because I had signed out of OneDrive for a long time (but added a great deal of information to the

Thank you Victor for your reply. I think the reason my laptop does not download the up-to-date FH data/media is because OneDrive had not synced the FH Project folder for quite a long time. Looking

Hi Sandra, The first to do is be patient. Updating OneDrive is not like updating a disk drive. It takes a long time over the Internet. Remember that synchronisation can only happen while you are

When you open FH on your lap top the version on you desk top needs to be closed. You can't have them open in both Victor On 25/05/2020 10:34 am, Sandra Blackburn wrote:

Hi Mike Thank you for your warm welcome and encouragement, just what I wanted at this time . Timely advise and great links which I will start to explore on fhug which I had already joined a few

In Windows 10 I save my Project to OneDrive and also regularly do a full backup to Documents/Sandra/Family History Docs/Backup. My last full backup was yesterday. As I wish to work on a laptop as

Hi Keith, For advice on all those topics, I strongly advise you to join the FHUG. https://www.fhug.org.uk/ It is entirely free, has discussion Forums on all related topics, many useful free

Newbie, who has been using FH6 for many years mainly for storing primary source information from BMD and census records. Now in lockdown, I find that I have now have time to start finding out the best

If you click the Help button in the Revert to Snapshot dialogue it tells you all about when they are taken. They are taken at most once per day but only when changed data is saved. That is why I