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Problem TreeShare update operations that add images from Ancestry to the RootsMagic database can result in successive downloads of the same image file saved to a revised name, each added to the Media Gallery and independently tagged to their respective ...
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Working out the wrinkles in a new script addressing some TreeShare issues, I was using some other scripts to help me understand what was going on and ran into a couple of issues that I've fixed:

• RM7_5_WaymarksViews.sql was not reporting ...
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This is a query I wrote just for myself and I didn't feel as if it were of sufficiently general interest to post here. Also, it is not as polished as I like queries to be that I share publicly ...
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I found some discrepancies in RootsMagic and posted a question. This was in an answer: C:UsersTomAppDataRoamingRootsMagicAMT (change the "Tom " to the Windows username. In this folder is a .DAT file for each connected Ancestry Member Tree (AMT). This file ...
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Background RootsMagic Drag'n'Drop between the windows of two databases is a background GEDCOM export-import process. Both Drag'n'Drop and the explicit File>Export and Import process fail to fully transfer everything from one database to another. Drag'n'Drop and GEDCOM are governed by ...
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SQLite Expert now takes the lead as the most compatible with the RootsMagic RMNOCASE collation, thanks to the C extension unifuzz.dll authored or revised by Jean-Christophe Deschamps. Unifuzz can be used with other SQLite managers that support extensions, including the ...
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A script that converts all events of one fact type to another in a fraction of a second. Enter the name of the current event as you see it in the Edit Person screen or as you see it in ...
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TreeShare downloads Ancestry media for citations with cryptic file names that mean nothing to humans. This set of scripts and batch or command-line operations prepends to the media filenames the name of one of the persons to whom the citation ...
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RootsMagic 6.3.3.2 imports TMG Citation Detail memo field into CitationTable.Fields as the field [CD] defined in the SourceTemplateTable.Fields regardless of TMG memo splitter "||". An issue which I'm sure many will detect is that sentences for sources with split Citation ...
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RootsMagic version 6.3.2.0 and later supports the direct import of project databases from The Master Genealogist. These programs have many similarities and, of course, many differences. They both support witness tags/shared events, sentence templates for facts, footnotes and bibliography and ...
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