Hello,
I love FTM2009! It is helping me so much. But I have a question. The other day, I was using the File Merge Wizard in FTM2009 to merge a gedcom file into my main FTM file. I was using a laptop on a battery and the battery ran low before I could finish looking at all the "flagged" individuals and was not able to resolve all.

Is there anyway to go back to where I was before I had to close down and finish looking at the rest of the flagged "unresolved" individuals?

Thank you.

sallyss,

Where are you seeing "flagged" individuals?

When you close Family Tree Maker and re-open it, if you go to Poeple, you should be taken back to the last person that you worked on.

Russ

When I was working with the File Merge Wizard, there was a popup window that listed all "flagged" persons and I was going through each one individually and deciding which facts would be the preferred fact when I merged them. Then I would click merge and it would move that individual to "Resolved" at bottom of the list in that window. (I think this was how it was working - had only done it this once.) When I had to close out before I finished (because my laptop was running out of battery and I was in car), I think I saved it as a Backup - I do have a backup file that I added the word Merge to the end of that was saved that day.

But I have opened it and my main file and neither one took me to that list of flagged and resolved people.

I don't see any flagged individuals now - but I don't know where to look for those that were flagged.

Is there anyway to get back to that list and finish the process of merging? There ought to be a way to return to that process.

Thank you so much for your help.

Sally

Sallyss,

Please me make sure I understand.

You were in the middle of a Web Merge when all of this happened, right?

If that is the case, do the Web Merge again and watch what information you have already merged, though I don't think any of that merged because of the way you bailed out.

I would just do your Web Merge again.

For the Back Up, you need to click on File, Back Up. Its not a Save function.

Russ

OK, thanks Russ.

I guess I will just have to do it again. Was hoping I wouldn't have to redo all those merges I had already gotten through when I had to stop.

File Backup is what I did - shouldn't have called it save.

Thanks for all your help.

Sally

Sally,

Please clarify.

What your earlier posted said, I thought, that you were in the middle of ONE Web Merge and did NOT complete that one specific Web Merge. That is what I was responding to. If this were the case, I was suggesting that you just re-do that ONE Web Merge and I may not have actually happened.

Now, it sounds like you had a number of Web Merges and that you had't completed doing them all, for this one specific individual.

If this is the case, then you might look at the Source-Citations for that individual to see when Web Merges you completed or didn't complete, based on the Web Search Results.

Russ