Image via WikipediaAre you going to go out of town for the Labor Day weekend? This year, we're getting four days off. We are going to be visiting with some family at least one of the days. So, its a great time to put my new mobile apps to use. I got an iPhone last Christmas (thank you dear hubby!) and its really made life easier. The "Around Me" app alone really saved us when we were in Texas this summer for my nephews wedding and couldn't locate the hotel. After the third time around the block, I pulled out my phone, put in the name of the hotel and it showed us exactly what turns to make to get there. Really cool. Playing with "Around Me" some more, we found local museums and other hot spots. As an addicted genealogist, of course I had to pull up directions for the local libraries and cemeteries.
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Hit the Road Capt. Jack
Image via WikipediaAre you going to go out of town for the Labor Day weekend? This year, we're getting four days off. We are going to be visiting with some family at least one of the days. So, its a great time to put my new mobile apps to use. I got an iPhone last Christmas (thank you dear hubby!) and its really made life easier. The "Around Me" app alone really saved us when we were in Texas this summer for my nephews wedding and couldn't locate the hotel. After the third time around the block, I pulled out my phone, put in the name of the hotel and it showed us exactly what turns to make to get there. Really cool. Playing with "Around Me" some more, we found local museums and other hot spots. As an addicted genealogist, of course I had to pull up directions for the local libraries and cemeteries.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Family Photos - Arggggh!
Everyone knows that I love photographs of our ancestors. Seeing the
family resemblance in a photograph taken a hundred years ago sends
chills up my back. Once, in wondering if a branch of the family was
really mine, I stumbled across a photo of a civil war soldier and
there, as if looking me straight in the eye, was the spitting image
of my kid brother Shane. Wow. I had no doubt, we had to be related.
Recently, however, they've been testing my patience. The photos, not
the ancestors.
During the last couple of times I have tried exporting the Heycuz database into web pages, one of the photographs has caused my system to crash. Each time I attempted to export the files, it would go for 15 hours and 23 minutes and right at that point, bam, everything would fail. I'd have to rebuild the file, another couple of hours and try again.
I use Reunion, a Macintosh computer application for genealogy. Normally, I can't say enough about this software. I've used a lot of the different programs but Reunion stands so high above the others that its no question that this is the program of choice. I do keep a copy of Family Tree Maker installed on my son's PC, but I've used it maybe twice this year and only to convert submitted FTM files into gedcoms and opening them up in Reunion.
So, I posted my problem on the Reunion Talk board hoping someone had similar problems and solved it, but I didn't get one reply. Come on! You're telling me I'm the only lucky one to have such a problem? So, I tried again and noticed that it crashed right about the point that it started to export the photographs. It must be a rogue photograph then, I assumed. So, I tried to export only the people that had photographs to test the theory. That was only about 6,000 files, compared to the 90,000+ people on heycuz. Halfway through the 15 hours it still took to export the file--Why so long?--I realized that if it crashed it still wouldn't solve the problem. Even so, I waited, and sure enough it got to the "exporting images" sequence and crashed. After rebuilding the file for the umpteenth time, I decided to export only a few files with photographs and see if that would help. This time the export went much faster, exporting 300 people, but it still crashed. So, I tried turning off all photos and it worked.
So, I knew it was a photo. Then, I went back and exported only 50 people with photos. Drum roll, please....Tada! It exported with no problems. So, I tried 100. It went. I tried 200, it didn't go. I theorized that it must be one photo and if I could just narrow it down to that one photo I could take it out or fix it and then solve the problem. So, I went through the entire database and exported every one, 100 people at a time. It took a week. However, it still didn't solve the problem. If I exported the files in 100 increments, it would work every time. Unfortunately, if you do export the family file in 100s, the links no longer work and the result is a useless bunch of html pages. The good news is the photo files do export. So, what I ended up doing, eager to get the updates uploaded, is exported all the files as though there were no problem. Of course, when it came to the exporting images it crashed, but then I just merged all the photo files from my 100-people experiment into their correct folders and checked to make sure that the correct photos linked to the right people. I believe it worked. I know its a temporary fix, but at least I got the updates done.
After spending a week uploading all the files of course, I'm still left to resolve the problem. Anyone with a bit of computer knowledge, is probably thinking that the problem has an obvious cause. Memory. Well, I have twice the amount the software requirements call for. I have a processor that is three times the minimum speed recommended. The photographs are all small jpgs. Well, I did notice that there were a couple of .tiff formatted photos so I converted them to jpgs but that didn't solve it. Besides, it had always worked before the last few months. The only thing that changed is of course, corrections, and there was a software update. Unfortunately, I can't back track and use the older version of software because then it will no longer open my file. Since my system isn't the most up to date I'm hoping that if I finally upgrade the Computer system software it will fix the problem. If not, at least I know that I can export the pages, 100 people at a time, but that means I will be doing updates less often as it takes such a long time to update. So, if you're wondering why your corrections take so long to get up on the web, now you know.
On a semi-related note: Apple recently switched its server to "The Cloud" and, once again, lucky me, I was one of the 1 percent of people who lost email service. So any one who tried to write to my Mac address, which is the address I use for Heycuz members, didn't get through. I have other email addresses, so for the first week I didn't notice it. Then, someone forwarded a note that my email was undeliverable and checking with Mac's website, I found out why. It would take another week for Mac to get its act together and get mail service back. I can't believe they could do that and still run commercials about how much better everything is.
Anyway, with "The Cloud" and the problems with my software, I will be down once again, hopefully not for too long, while I do a clean install of Mac OS Leopard. Wish me luck!
family resemblance in a photograph taken a hundred years ago sends
chills up my back. Once, in wondering if a branch of the family was
really mine, I stumbled across a photo of a civil war soldier and
there, as if looking me straight in the eye, was the spitting image
of my kid brother Shane. Wow. I had no doubt, we had to be related.
Recently, however, they've been testing my patience. The photos, not
the ancestors.
During the last couple of times I have tried exporting the Heycuz database into web pages, one of the photographs has caused my system to crash. Each time I attempted to export the files, it would go for 15 hours and 23 minutes and right at that point, bam, everything would fail. I'd have to rebuild the file, another couple of hours and try again.
I use Reunion, a Macintosh computer application for genealogy. Normally, I can't say enough about this software. I've used a lot of the different programs but Reunion stands so high above the others that its no question that this is the program of choice. I do keep a copy of Family Tree Maker installed on my son's PC, but I've used it maybe twice this year and only to convert submitted FTM files into gedcoms and opening them up in Reunion.
So, I posted my problem on the Reunion Talk board hoping someone had similar problems and solved it, but I didn't get one reply. Come on! You're telling me I'm the only lucky one to have such a problem? So, I tried again and noticed that it crashed right about the point that it started to export the photographs. It must be a rogue photograph then, I assumed. So, I tried to export only the people that had photographs to test the theory. That was only about 6,000 files, compared to the 90,000+ people on heycuz. Halfway through the 15 hours it still took to export the file--Why so long?--I realized that if it crashed it still wouldn't solve the problem. Even so, I waited, and sure enough it got to the "exporting images" sequence and crashed. After rebuilding the file for the umpteenth time, I decided to export only a few files with photographs and see if that would help. This time the export went much faster, exporting 300 people, but it still crashed. So, I tried turning off all photos and it worked.
So, I knew it was a photo. Then, I went back and exported only 50 people with photos. Drum roll, please....Tada! It exported with no problems. So, I tried 100. It went. I tried 200, it didn't go. I theorized that it must be one photo and if I could just narrow it down to that one photo I could take it out or fix it and then solve the problem. So, I went through the entire database and exported every one, 100 people at a time. It took a week. However, it still didn't solve the problem. If I exported the files in 100 increments, it would work every time. Unfortunately, if you do export the family file in 100s, the links no longer work and the result is a useless bunch of html pages. The good news is the photo files do export. So, what I ended up doing, eager to get the updates uploaded, is exported all the files as though there were no problem. Of course, when it came to the exporting images it crashed, but then I just merged all the photo files from my 100-people experiment into their correct folders and checked to make sure that the correct photos linked to the right people. I believe it worked. I know its a temporary fix, but at least I got the updates done.
After spending a week uploading all the files of course, I'm still left to resolve the problem. Anyone with a bit of computer knowledge, is probably thinking that the problem has an obvious cause. Memory. Well, I have twice the amount the software requirements call for. I have a processor that is three times the minimum speed recommended. The photographs are all small jpgs. Well, I did notice that there were a couple of .tiff formatted photos so I converted them to jpgs but that didn't solve it. Besides, it had always worked before the last few months. The only thing that changed is of course, corrections, and there was a software update. Unfortunately, I can't back track and use the older version of software because then it will no longer open my file. Since my system isn't the most up to date I'm hoping that if I finally upgrade the Computer system software it will fix the problem. If not, at least I know that I can export the pages, 100 people at a time, but that means I will be doing updates less often as it takes such a long time to update. So, if you're wondering why your corrections take so long to get up on the web, now you know.
On a semi-related note: Apple recently switched its server to "The Cloud" and, once again, lucky me, I was one of the 1 percent of people who lost email service. So any one who tried to write to my Mac address, which is the address I use for Heycuz members, didn't get through. I have other email addresses, so for the first week I didn't notice it. Then, someone forwarded a note that my email was undeliverable and checking with Mac's website, I found out why. It would take another week for Mac to get its act together and get mail service back. I can't believe they could do that and still run commercials about how much better everything is.
Anyway, with "The Cloud" and the problems with my software, I will be down once again, hopefully not for too long, while I do a clean install of Mac OS Leopard. Wish me luck!
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Hit the Road Capt. Jack
Image via WikipediaAre you going to go out of town for the Labor Day weekend? This year, we're getting four days off. We are going to be visiting with some family at least one of the days. So, its a great time to put my new mobile apps to use. I got an iPhone last Christmas (thank you dear hubby!) and its really made life easier. The "Around Me" app alone really saved us when we were in Texas this summer for my nephews wedding and couldn't locate the hotel. After the third time around the block, I pulled out my phone, put in the name of the hotel and it showed us exactly what turns to make to get there. Really cool. Playing with "Around Me" some more, we found local museums and other hot spots. As an addicted genealogist, of course I had to pull up directions for the local libraries and cemeteries.Family Photos - Arggggh!
Everyone knows that I love photographs of our ancestors. Seeing the
family resemblance in a photograph taken a hundred years ago sends
chills up my back. Once, in wondering if a branch of the family was
really mine, I stumbled across a photo of a civil war soldier and
there, as if looking me straight in the eye, was the spitting image
of my kid brother Shane. Wow. I had no doubt, we had to be related.
Recently, however, they've been testing my patience. The photos, not
the ancestors.
During the last couple of times I have tried exporting the Heycuz database into web pages, one of the photographs has caused my system to crash. Each time I attempted to export the files, it would go for 15 hours and 23 minutes and right at that point, bam, everything would fail. I'd have to rebuild the file, another couple of hours and try again.
I use Reunion, a Macintosh computer application for genealogy. Normally, I can't say enough about this software. I've used a lot of the different programs but Reunion stands so high above the others that its no question that this is the program of choice. I do keep a copy of Family Tree Maker installed on my son's PC, but I've used it maybe twice this year and only to convert submitted FTM files into gedcoms and opening them up in Reunion.
So, I posted my problem on the Reunion Talk board hoping someone had similar problems and solved it, but I didn't get one reply. Come on! You're telling me I'm the only lucky one to have such a problem? So, I tried again and noticed that it crashed right about the point that it started to export the photographs. It must be a rogue photograph then, I assumed. So, I tried to export only the people that had photographs to test the theory. That was only about 6,000 files, compared to the 90,000+ people on heycuz. Halfway through the 15 hours it still took to export the file--Why so long?--I realized that if it crashed it still wouldn't solve the problem. Even so, I waited, and sure enough it got to the "exporting images" sequence and crashed. After rebuilding the file for the umpteenth time, I decided to export only a few files with photographs and see if that would help. This time the export went much faster, exporting 300 people, but it still crashed. So, I tried turning off all photos and it worked.
So, I knew it was a photo. Then, I went back and exported only 50 people with photos. Drum roll, please....Tada! It exported with no problems. So, I tried 100. It went. I tried 200, it didn't go. I theorized that it must be one photo and if I could just narrow it down to that one photo I could take it out or fix it and then solve the problem. So, I went through the entire database and exported every one, 100 people at a time. It took a week. However, it still didn't solve the problem. If I exported the files in 100 increments, it would work every time. Unfortunately, if you do export the family file in 100s, the links no longer work and the result is a useless bunch of html pages. The good news is the photo files do export. So, what I ended up doing, eager to get the updates uploaded, is exported all the files as though there were no problem. Of course, when it came to the exporting images it crashed, but then I just merged all the photo files from my 100-people experiment into their correct folders and checked to make sure that the correct photos linked to the right people. I believe it worked. I know its a temporary fix, but at least I got the updates done.
After spending a week uploading all the files of course, I'm still left to resolve the problem. Anyone with a bit of computer knowledge, is probably thinking that the problem has an obvious cause. Memory. Well, I have twice the amount the software requirements call for. I have a processor that is three times the minimum speed recommended. The photographs are all small jpgs. Well, I did notice that there were a couple of .tiff formatted photos so I converted them to jpgs but that didn't solve it. Besides, it had always worked before the last few months. The only thing that changed is of course, corrections, and there was a software update. Unfortunately, I can't back track and use the older version of software because then it will no longer open my file. Since my system isn't the most up to date I'm hoping that if I finally upgrade the Computer system software it will fix the problem. If not, at least I know that I can export the pages, 100 people at a time, but that means I will be doing updates less often as it takes such a long time to update. So, if you're wondering why your corrections take so long to get up on the web, now you know.
On a semi-related note: Apple recently switched its server to "The Cloud" and, once again, lucky me, I was one of the 1 percent of people who lost email service. So any one who tried to write to my Mac address, which is the address I use for Heycuz members, didn't get through. I have other email addresses, so for the first week I didn't notice it. Then, someone forwarded a note that my email was undeliverable and checking with Mac's website, I found out why. It would take another week for Mac to get its act together and get mail service back. I can't believe they could do that and still run commercials about how much better everything is.
Anyway, with "The Cloud" and the problems with my software, I will be down once again, hopefully not for too long, while I do a clean install of Mac OS Leopard. Wish me luck!
family resemblance in a photograph taken a hundred years ago sends
chills up my back. Once, in wondering if a branch of the family was
really mine, I stumbled across a photo of a civil war soldier and
there, as if looking me straight in the eye, was the spitting image
of my kid brother Shane. Wow. I had no doubt, we had to be related.
Recently, however, they've been testing my patience. The photos, not
the ancestors.
During the last couple of times I have tried exporting the Heycuz database into web pages, one of the photographs has caused my system to crash. Each time I attempted to export the files, it would go for 15 hours and 23 minutes and right at that point, bam, everything would fail. I'd have to rebuild the file, another couple of hours and try again.
I use Reunion, a Macintosh computer application for genealogy. Normally, I can't say enough about this software. I've used a lot of the different programs but Reunion stands so high above the others that its no question that this is the program of choice. I do keep a copy of Family Tree Maker installed on my son's PC, but I've used it maybe twice this year and only to convert submitted FTM files into gedcoms and opening them up in Reunion.
So, I posted my problem on the Reunion Talk board hoping someone had similar problems and solved it, but I didn't get one reply. Come on! You're telling me I'm the only lucky one to have such a problem? So, I tried again and noticed that it crashed right about the point that it started to export the photographs. It must be a rogue photograph then, I assumed. So, I tried to export only the people that had photographs to test the theory. That was only about 6,000 files, compared to the 90,000+ people on heycuz. Halfway through the 15 hours it still took to export the file--Why so long?--I realized that if it crashed it still wouldn't solve the problem. Even so, I waited, and sure enough it got to the "exporting images" sequence and crashed. After rebuilding the file for the umpteenth time, I decided to export only a few files with photographs and see if that would help. This time the export went much faster, exporting 300 people, but it still crashed. So, I tried turning off all photos and it worked.
So, I knew it was a photo. Then, I went back and exported only 50 people with photos. Drum roll, please....Tada! It exported with no problems. So, I tried 100. It went. I tried 200, it didn't go. I theorized that it must be one photo and if I could just narrow it down to that one photo I could take it out or fix it and then solve the problem. So, I went through the entire database and exported every one, 100 people at a time. It took a week. However, it still didn't solve the problem. If I exported the files in 100 increments, it would work every time. Unfortunately, if you do export the family file in 100s, the links no longer work and the result is a useless bunch of html pages. The good news is the photo files do export. So, what I ended up doing, eager to get the updates uploaded, is exported all the files as though there were no problem. Of course, when it came to the exporting images it crashed, but then I just merged all the photo files from my 100-people experiment into their correct folders and checked to make sure that the correct photos linked to the right people. I believe it worked. I know its a temporary fix, but at least I got the updates done.
After spending a week uploading all the files of course, I'm still left to resolve the problem. Anyone with a bit of computer knowledge, is probably thinking that the problem has an obvious cause. Memory. Well, I have twice the amount the software requirements call for. I have a processor that is three times the minimum speed recommended. The photographs are all small jpgs. Well, I did notice that there were a couple of .tiff formatted photos so I converted them to jpgs but that didn't solve it. Besides, it had always worked before the last few months. The only thing that changed is of course, corrections, and there was a software update. Unfortunately, I can't back track and use the older version of software because then it will no longer open my file. Since my system isn't the most up to date I'm hoping that if I finally upgrade the Computer system software it will fix the problem. If not, at least I know that I can export the pages, 100 people at a time, but that means I will be doing updates less often as it takes such a long time to update. So, if you're wondering why your corrections take so long to get up on the web, now you know.
On a semi-related note: Apple recently switched its server to "The Cloud" and, once again, lucky me, I was one of the 1 percent of people who lost email service. So any one who tried to write to my Mac address, which is the address I use for Heycuz members, didn't get through. I have other email addresses, so for the first week I didn't notice it. Then, someone forwarded a note that my email was undeliverable and checking with Mac's website, I found out why. It would take another week for Mac to get its act together and get mail service back. I can't believe they could do that and still run commercials about how much better everything is.
Anyway, with "The Cloud" and the problems with my software, I will be down once again, hopefully not for too long, while I do a clean install of Mac OS Leopard. Wish me luck!
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