I have been using FTM forever. I know it's been at least 20 years. And every time a new version came out, I just moved my tree over and continued to let it grow. It's now a modest 5000 or so individuals. And it's a mess. Unattached branches, place name inconsistency, horrible record keeping, sources missing left and right, inconsistent naming patterns, etc. I was just starting out when I began to use it, and now I have more experience behind me and my entry process has grown along the way.
Enter FTM 2012. Sometime shortly after installing it, I began to notice corruptions in my tree. Whether the two events are related is unknown. We are talking about a 20 year old tree, here. People didn't always link with parents correctly (usually the same person), one entire person disappeared, another one caused the program to crash every time I tried to access him. Sync broke with the update in March and I never got it working again. I just couldn't face redoing it and starting to work on both online and offline trees again, falling back into old habits.
Fast forward to about a month ago. I became determined to get sync working again. But first I had to find clean versions that didn't seem to have the corruptions, but were yet new enough to be any good. Digging through saved files brought forth several options, but they always crashed when I tried to merge them with the online tree (which had been downloaded and merged in carefully and properly). I did this at least four times. Then there were 3 more attempts to sync is this past weekend (9/23/2012) and it just hung the system without doing anything of just my offline file without even bothering with online one.
Now I've reached the point where I think just starting over would be best. Use the old files, reenter the people and facts, use it as a fresh start, clean up the places, the naming issues, the sources. Figure out a system for whom I am going to actually include (do I really need three generations down on a 1700s siblings' branch just because I can?) Am I nuts? This is going to be a huge project for me. Probably a couple of months, if today's pace is any indication (100 names, roughly, but they are all living people with nutty relationships and more facts than the ancestors).
Has anyone else reached this point?
Tracey
Source: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/topics.software.famtreemaker/8988/mb.ashx
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