Exploit your RootsMagic family tree database with SQLite Tools
Problem Neither the RootsMagic File>Backup nor File>Copy can proceed because the database file “is being used by another process” (RootsMagic’s own or your SQLite manager or other outboard SQLite connection). And if you’ve chosen Backup, RM gracelessly blocks you from further work with an always-on-top fake news message window “Creating backup file…” requiring closure of…
(See Backup Media with Database – 7Zip for a similar procedure using 7-zip.) Here is a one-click backup procedure that stores the database file and all the media files it references in one solid, compressed backup file, preserving the path to each. Many have lamented the fact that RootsMagic 4 neither stores images in its…
The following was written in 2011 and RM Inc did rise to the challenge and produced a Backup option that includes media. However, it does two things that some people do not like if they are forced to restore from that backup: Their carefully developed folder structure for media is collapsed into one media folder…