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Jayadee & Inky 1

My son called round this morning and set up F.T.M 2006 for me on my laptop also added the tree from the memory stick he did a lot for me but I expect i have forgotten it time I want to use it again

Thank you all for all your support

joyce

Joyce,

From what you have written, the files are not GEDCOMS (.ged) and I do not recognise them. Are you trying to copy the actual FTM software from your Vista pc to your new laptop. Is that correct?

I am not familiar with FTM.

Unless FTM is a very simple program - which I sure is not the case - I would be very surprised if you could do that. What you must do is install the software onto your laptop - from your original cd. If you purchased online and the software was downloaded into your pc (ie you do not have a cd) you need to download it again. For that you will need the product licence number/key which should be on your pc somewhere. Or on an emailed receipt.

Another thing:-
- The software that you do have may be out of date, due to later revisions/issues. Thus you may not be able to download it, but have to buy an 'upgrade' to the latest version.

Jayadee

Yes but what version did you have of F.T.M. to transfer to your laptop

Inky1


I tried todo it

it and it came up and said the one i am trying to do is older than the memory stick one i did on my pc can I download an update to the laptop one to 2006 ???

Inky1
WFT.FTW FBK.FTW5FTW

TYPE:FTWFAMILY FILE

I backed it up from the F.T.M to my hard drive which goes in documents then i transfer it to the memory stick

i have copied another one a different name to a gedcom but they still dont work on my laptop

Joyce,

We may have crossed wires here.
What is the full name of the file that you are trying to copy.? Include the file extension (the characters after the 'dot')

Are you trying to copy Family Tree software onto a mem stick? This would include - at the least - one .exe file, plus a number of .dll files.
If so, I really doubt that it would be of much use, for reasons I will not bore you with.

Or is there a .ged file, which you would have 'instructed' Family Tree to generate and save to the pc hard drive?

Inky1
I have been all afternoon trying to find out why I cant copy the F.Tree onto a memory stick as a gedcom which it wont do I have several on memory sticks different sizes also in documents and none of them will open

How can I start from scratch from my F.T.M and add to a memory stick

thanks for the reply and advice

If you can see the file (.ged) on your vista pc, then copy it to the mem stick.
Then do as Wendy does and copy from the mem stick to your laptop. Then import that copied file to your family history program.

Inky 1 & wendy

I t doesnt look like i saved it properly on my memory stick it shows up on my vista pc which I backed up from the F.T.M

but not on the laptop which ive just downloaded legacy

can you explain what I can do please

thanks

joyce

Hi,

I save all my trees on a memory stick when I want to open them on my computer windows 8 I have made a new folder in documents and copy or move trees from memory stick to the new folder them open it from there.

Copy it first to make sure it works.

Wendy

The detail (file) on your mem stick was surely not generated by the operating system, but by your family history program? Thus it should not matter whether your pc/laptop runs under Vista, 7 , 8 or 8.1.

Plug in the stick and look at the file list. Does the file that was generated show .ged at the end? (example myfamily.ged) If so, open your family history program and look for "import file", or something similar, which may be in a dropdown box.

Jacqueline & Jayadee

Thank you for your replies

I am confused can I download a new tree onto my laptop which will except my details I saved on my memory stick from my F.T.M. ???

any advice welcomed

When I lost all the family tree on my FTM 2006 I first went into a panic as it had nearly a thousand people on it

I remembered Then I had saved it a few months previously on to a memory stick

I opened FTM and then followed the instructions on how to download and it worked nearly all my tree was restored I had added after doing the memory stick so I had to re input those .

Since then I have done an up to date save just in case .

If the data on your memory stick is a gedcom file then I am pretty certain it will import into FMP using Windows 8. I use Roots Magic rather than FMP but my data successfully transferred from Vista to Windows 8 recently.

I hope this helps - just give it a try!

:-)

Check the FTM website.

They must have some sort of help section

But you may have to consider that something which you compiled using Vista simply isn't compatible with Windows 8

Shirley
I have downloaded the version 3 for 95 computer on my laptop windows 8

How do i transfer my tree which i saved on my memory stick from my vista pc to it which will save me a lot of work


joyce

shirley I thought I would ask on this site before I bought the 20012/ 20014 as I have read reviews stating they had problems with windows 8


i couldnt open that address so I will have to google it

this may help

http://www.tamurajones.net/SixThingsToKnowAboutFamilyTreeMaker2014.xhtm

I have 2012 on my laptop which has windows 7 this was bought because the 2006 version wasnt compatible with windows 7

cant see why the latest version wouldnt work