Exporting to Gedcom

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mikeup
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Exporting to Gedcom

Post by mikeup » Wed May 09, 2012 3:14 pm

I am trying to export a rather large file to a gedcom but each time iFamily quits before the export is complete. The progress bar suggests that the operation is almost complete and the message I see when the program quits doesn't seem to give any explanation as to the likely cause.

Is this caused by errors in my file?
If so is there a way of quickly locating these errors?

Mike

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Warwick Wilson
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Post by Warwick Wilson » Thu May 10, 2012 8:20 am

Hi Mike,

Thats not the usual or deisrable behaviour for Gedcom Export. Which OSX do you have installed?

Email me your FtkSql database from your iFamilyData folder and I will try it in debug mode at my end to identify the problem.

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Warwick.
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mikeup
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Exporting to Gedcom

Post by mikeup » Sat May 12, 2012 11:09 am

Hi Warwick,

I am using OSX 10.7.4

Because of the file size I am having trouble sending it as an attachment so I hope this link works for you:
http://homepage.mac.com/mikeumike4150/f ... own.FtkSql

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Exporting to Gedcom

Post by mikeup » Tue May 22, 2012 4:04 pm

Hi Warwick

I sent you a link to my FtkSql database on 12 May and I am wondering if you have been able to try it in debug mode and if so whether any progress has been made.

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Mike

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Post by Warwick Wilson » Wed May 23, 2012 2:43 am

Sorry, I had missed this reply :oops: Email suits my daily workflow better.

I can see 194857 people and 351736 events in your 870MB FtkSql file. It opens slowly due to the size of the file and there is a lot of spinning beachball action, but it does get there in the end. Each time you make a change in iFamily the database will resave, this may be unpractical for large databases such as this.

I was however referring to supply of the Gedcom file you loaded from, rather than the FtkSql file generated. Can you please provide a link to that the Gedcom and I'll investigate what it is getting stuck on at the end of the load. My guess is that the integrity checks are underoptimized for a database of this size, I can tweak that.

The integrity checks are the last item run in each Gedcom load. The FtkSql file you have provided me should be complete, just unanalysed.

Warwick.

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