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From: "Stuart Armstrong" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] backing up things
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:36:43 -0600
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On 8/6/03, at 10:12, Richard Cleaveland wrote:

>"Opinion: It seems to me that the designers of TMG5 placed
>little – if any – importance on helping the user make backups of any but
>the most fundamental genealogical data. A lot could be done in this area to
>improve the situation – TMG4 had a better facility, although even it was

I agree, but I would have used different words. To say that TMG5 only backs up "the most fundamental genealogical data" is a little misleading. Indeed, it backs up ALL the data and a lot besides. What it doesn't backup is certain program and report configurations which one could reconstruct if one had to but it would be time consuming and a pain in the neck. For those of us who like to customize everything to our own eccentric preferences (and a lot of TMG users are like that) ... we would like to preserve the product of those efforts. They represent, in some cases, hours of planning and designing -- work we wouldn't want to lose.

Stuart Armstrong
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