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From: "Kay Schmidt" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Revisiting - Journal report hangs
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:45:12 -0700
In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060901003658.04d1c900@acm.org>


Thanks again, Lee. In response to your suggestions:

>> KS 1st said: I also discovered that the Individual Narrative Preview
wouldn't work for >another person.

> LH then said: Hmm, what Tags are common or similar between the two
persons? Possibly a number -- especially the usual Tags. I would now look
at each Tag for each of these two persons and compare the entries with a
similar non-problem person.

KS - Other than my census tags, these two have the usual birth, marriage,
children, and death tags. I use a general Event-Misc tag for most other
purposes. There isn't anything unusual I can see comparing them to other
people in my project.

> LH said: Something that I would try and don't recall if you said you had
is to run the File=>Maintenance=>Validate File Integrity function. Try this
first, then try the others above.

KS - Yes, I have tried all the usual maintenance and validations routines. I
have also deleted and redefined the report definitions.

> LH said: Oh, one other thing, do you have a Memo field (Tag or Source)
that contains an External File? That is, the first character of the field
has an Exclamation Mark followed by a file path and file name? If so, then
this may be the problem. Such files should be plain text and if they were
created in a word processor may contain non-printing formatting codes that
TMG does not recognize. I would always suggest that you use a text editor
(TMG's own or NOTEPAD) rather than a word processor. You can use the word
processor if you are careful to save the file in plain text only.

KS - No, there are no External Files in my project yet. And I either create
text right in TMG or use the paste unformatted text option.

> LH said: If you still have the problem, I suspect that there is a bad
entry in one Tag. Try deleting one Tag at a time and re-enter that data.
If you use copy/paste, paste it somewhere else first and then copy/paste it
from there to the new Tag.

KS - Haven't specifically redone each tag, but I did delete the tags from
Sarah one at a time until I was down to just her parents and children. The
report never worked.

It's still a puzzlement ... Kay Schmidt

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