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Some brainiac at apple has changed the library for the English short month names, and Sep is now Sept from macOS 12.3 forwards. I’m sure they had their reasons, but this appears to be policy by committee, or by whim, which is never a good feature for a platform. I will code a workaround into the nex...

Thanks for reaching out, a couple of others have mentioned this issue also. Some brainiac at apple has changed the library for the English short month names, and Sep is now Sept from macOS 12.3 forwards. I’m sure they had their reasons, but this appears to be policy by committee, or by whim, which i...

I will have a deeper QA of it now, an extra 9 years experience goes a long way. OK, I didn't find the cause of the corruption, but I did find an 8 step fix. (First: Copy your database somewhere safe, duplicated to your documents folder or similar.). 0. Close iFamily 1. Open Terminal 2. Change to th...

Thanks Warwick For the last few years when I open iFamily I get the following error message: The File NEAL.FtkSql couldn't be opened because it isn't in the correct format. The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpected format." However, when I click on the "OK" button on the error mes...

Yay. Also thanks -> I have installed Atom.

Thank you, I sent you the file. The cause of the problem here is that iFamily is reading the gedcom file a line at a time and encoding the characters as they come. The line continuations from MyHeritage gedcom export, are emplacing half of the ecoute and grave characters on each CONT line, it is sp...

I'm having the same problem. I'm looking to import a family site from My Heritage and am getting this same message about encoding (UTF-8) but when I open the ged file in a text editor it mentions utf-8 as the encoding. I'm using iFamily for Mac 2.12.0 with a M1 Mac mini on MacOS 12.0.1 (Monterey). ...

Hi Warwick I'm currently running v 2.9.8 on a Mac running High Sierra (10.13.6). Will everything work if I just download the update. Thought I'd ask as I wouldn't like to see many years of work disappear! I hear the toolbar appears on the left instead of the right on High Sierra, but there are no p...

David,

Very sorry to hear about your family passings. The new release has now been posted to the website in the usual places. Do send me an email if you need any assistance.

Sincerely,
Warwick.
support@ifamilyformac.com

Change Log:- Overview =============== - Refactoring and retirement of old code has reduced the maintenance footprint of the app from 95k lines of code to 89k lines of code, with no loss of functionality. (replaced about 800 enumerators.). - Toolbar rescoped, search field moved to base of diagram.. -...

Hi Daj, Good to hear from you. Apologies for not paying much attention to the forums this past year and a half, it is often more direct to just email me, I manage to reply to about 90% of what arrives in my inbox. I almost got a new version out to support the macOS Beta this year, but delays were nu...

Quick note to close off this thread: V2.9.9 worked on macOS 11.0.1 V2.10.0 worked on macOS 11.1 Current release (31st Dec 2020) is V2.10.1 which works on macOS 11.2 and for the rest of the 11.x series. Available here for logged in users: https://forums.ifamilyformac.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1249 or ...

Change Log:- Application =============== - Allowed execution on all macOS 11.x (all Big Sur?). This should see most users through to Oct.Nov, and macOS beta testers through to Jun/Jul. - Changed demo expiry to 5 non consecutive days. Registration =============== - replaced the API call to register w...

Change Log:-

Application
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- Allowed execution on macOS 11.1 (Big Sur still?)

Known Issues
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- Haven't revived the help documents yet, they were lost in V2.9.9 but will return shortly.

ww.

Change Log:- Application =============== - The application is now a dual binary and will run natively on Mac Silicon arm64 Macs as well as older Intel Macs. - Caught and resolved memory leak in the Context Diagram which was causing a crash on the new compile. Interfaces Update =============== - Forc...

Are you selecting Report->Database Changes report... from the menus when you encounter the crash? I had a try at recreating the problem but it just said 'no changes in the past day' for me. [Added a number formatter to the birthdate column do it doesn't say 1,977] My plan is to replace the google ma...

wfryan wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 29, 2019 9:44 am

No apology needed, I appreciate the support

Thanks for the add on linked in. Feel free to endorse me for macOS, programming or even genealogy perhaps

Hi wfryan,

The new version link is up at the following topic, sorry for the delay:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1231

ww.

Change Log:- Version 2.9.8 is a bit light on, hopefully 2.9.9 will be forthcoming soon. (The Apple Notarisation gets harder in January 2020 and will require another update.). Application =============== - The application has been stapled with an Apple Notarisation to accommodate Gatekeeper. Interfac...

[Putting this here as a reminder to myself.]

"John" asked for a prioritised todo list on 6th Oct 2018.

The Update facility has been replaced in V2.9.7 with a new method. Please upgrade manually then everything will work as expected once more.

Change Log:- Most of the effort with Version 2.9.7 was around backend changes to make iFamily easier to support moving forwards. Structural Changes (changes to my workflow) =============== - Migrated the code repository from an older SVN style repo to a more modern GIT repo since Xcode no longer sup...

Earlier in 2018 I had to rebuild the iFamily website on a new web host when the old one fell in a heap. The good news is that I chose AWS, which while it is more expensive that a local Australian option, it will deliver (magnitudes) better performance to iFamily users in North America and Europe. On...

It's never pretty at first when I do this macOS upgrade. The menu bar in the middle is missing. It is actually there but invisible, (same colour as background?). The light mode is mostly ok, just a few The default colour scheme on the dark mode is horrid for visibility, (white text on grey!). Some t...

Great, my dev machine is a 2010 Mac mini and just bit the dust apparently... Time to upgrade I guess. While macOS High Sierra was available for some machines manufactured as early as 2009, macOS Mojave is largely limited to 2012 or newer machines, with the exception of some Mac Pro models. Here's a ...

Hi Sali, Welcome. The amount of work I have to do on iFamily is like an iceberg and could sink ships. Not everything is always visible as there's always a lot of non programming work that distracts me from iFamily's true goals so please excuse any long breaks in conversation from my end. iFamily was...

test post, please ignore.

dropdown for previous focal persons does not work in 2.9.6 Even crashed when there was no previous person and was clicked on by accident. It looks like it is working ok on my end, using macOS 10.13.4. V296_dropdownBox.png I note you are still on OSX 10.7.5, are you able to upgrade OSX to at least 1...

I finally managed to get the backup databases from my old web host, the forums are now active again and the data gap between December and February is back. (phew, what a lengthy journey). The only thing still not recreated on the new webhost is the FTP server from where the updates were sourced. I'l...