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Re: relinking trees from Ancetry to FTM

Go to the New Tree tab and the click on Download new tree from Ancestry.

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

It is now 7th June and there is no Green for syncing in sight? What is the latest news and prognosis. Can someone in the know reply? Thank you.

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Mackiev did actually post an update on 6 June - see https://support.mackiev.com/336868-Sync-Outages-for-FTM-2017Unhelpfully they didn't update the link in the Sync Weather Report.

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Ancestry Hints

Anyone else having issues with hints not coming up for people in your tree recently. I know not every person added will have a hint, but I probably worked on 100 people last night and ancestry hints...

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Re: Ancestry Hints

Has this tree been synced, as it is a requirement and has been every since 2017 was released?

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Re: Ancestry Hints

Oh yeah. It's horrible. No one knows what's going on with FTM. They blame it on Ancestry, but that's funny because as best I can tell, Ancestry works just fine. I can go into Ancestry online at the...

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Once again, they continually blame their apparent inadequacies on Ancestry. Let me ask this....are ANY of you having any problems doing anything IN Ancestry? I know I'm not. So where is the problem?...

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Re: Ancestry Hints

I read in another group that if you untick Family Trees (at the bottom of the search screen) this will fix it. Also, some people are having problems with Family Search and the solution is to make sure...

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Yes Larry, there are still plenty of ongoing issues with Ancestry - especially with Searches. They said the move to the new infrastructure would be completed by May 31, but the issues are still...

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Re: Ancestry Hints

Larry - You clearly don't have a clue what is going on with Ancestry's web site. Try reading the Ancestry Site Comments board.

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Larry - If you bothered to read the Ancestry Site Comments board your questions about problems in Ancestry would be answered - there have been and continue to be a lot of widespread issues; Ancestry...

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Since you ask, yes, I DO have severe problems with using Ancestry itself at the moment. Missing hints, "Sorry, hint system unavailable at the moment", "That page is no longer available", the dreaded...

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

... and if further evidence were needed, after a very long wait for that message to post, refreshing the page just gave me an "error retrieving message"!I gather Ancestry are upgrading their operation...

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Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

Hoping someone can tell me what I am doing wrong? I am backing up my trees to a flashdrive before I get new computer so I can reinstall them to it. My smaller trees I have had no problem with, however...

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Re: Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

How large is this Flash Drive?How large is the FTM data file and all of it's media?Also remember that there are two backups, one with and one with out media, and with 1800 media items it will take a...

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Re: Orange Sync' Warning

Agreed. The Ancestry web site is not working very well, and despite what Ancestry has said, it can lead to data loss. Using the web site alone, I have tried altering source information, only to find...

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Re: Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

Flash drive is 16GFTM data file shows 21,348KBFTM Backup file 2012 (this is in the FTM Documents) shows 6,166,889 KBBacking up to Flash Drive (removable disk) I also have backed up to the FMT Est. time...

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Re: Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

Assuming you are using USB 2 writing to flash drives is VERY slow. 1GB per hour would not be out of the ball park.

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Re: Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

thank you for the info David.

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Re: Having problems backing up one of my trees to flashdrive with FTM 2012

It MIGHT be faster if you backup to your hard disk, then copy the backup file to the USB drive. Some applications write data in ways that aren't as efficient when using flash drives.

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