Aah the joy of transferring to a different computer!

Peregrine

Peregrine

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I don't have to do much when transferring to a new computer: the big lad is the expert and he does almost all of it for me. But my main computer, a touch screen laptop, had a chair fall on it a while ago and so the touch screen no longer works and other issues are occurring too. All my Family Tree Maker files were on the laptop and we are going to put them on a touch screen desktop that we have had for a while now but now that we are empty nesters and I have my own study it has been relocated there. The trouble is because they are synchronised with Ancestry it is not simply a matter of copying files from one computer to the other. I have to unlink each tree from Ancestry on the laptop, then go to the desktop and download the tree from Ancestry. A small tree takes about 6 to 8 hours to download and then process all the media. A big tree is taking much longer than that and one of them just seems to be going no where any time soon, so I have stopped the media processing for it now.

The big lad had to find a way to keep the desk top from turning itself off while the media was being processed so it is officially being fed caffeine. He found an app called Caffeine that tricks it into staying awake!

We have been working on transferring the trees (I do have quite a few) for over three days now, and I have not even tried to start working on the all encompassing really huge tree. That will have to wait till I come back from my visit to my two brothers in Canberra, I fly there (on my own) tomorrow for my niece's engagement party.

I have no idea how long it is going to take to complete the transfer of all my trees.
 
If you are arriving here tomorrow, Peregrine, I imagine you'll be staying a good part of the weekend? God forbid it would take any longer than that to transfer all your goodies.

At least you are coming to some nice weather. It's been absolutely delightful today.

Have fun, forget everything else but celebrating with family, and all will be well by the time you get home again.

Honest and true - would I lie? :angel:
 
Peregrine said:
I don't have to do much when transferring to a new computer: the big lad is the expert and he does almost all of it for me. But my main computer, a touch screen laptop, had a chair fall on it a while ago and so the touch screen no longer works and other issues are occurring too. All my Family Tree Maker files were on the laptop and we are going to put them on a touch screen desktop that we have had for a while now but now that we are empty nesters and I have my own study it has been relocated there. The trouble is because they are synchronised with Ancestry it is not simply a matter of copying files from one computer to the other. I have to unlink each tree from Ancestry on the laptop, then go to the desktop and download the tree from Ancestry. A small tree takes about 6 to 8 hours to download and then process all the media. A big tree is taking much longer than that and one of them just seems to be going no where any time soon, so I have stopped the media processing for it now.

The big lad had to find a way to keep the desk top from turning itself off while the media was being processed so it is officially being fed caffeine. He found an app called Caffeine that tricks it into staying awake!

We have been working on transferring the trees (I do have quite a few) for over three days now, and I have not even tried to start working on the all encompassing really huge tree. That will have to wait till I come back from my visit to my two brothers in Canberra, I fly there (on my own) tomorrow for my niece's engagement party.

I have no idea how long it is going to take to complete the transfer of all my trees.
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Just to keep you going{-(^^)-}
 
Going up tomorrow, coming home Monday arvo. Staying at big brother's place in Griffith, party is at little brother's in Wanniassa on Saturday night. Little brother is taking me to AWM on Sunday to see the revised WW1 exhibit. Nothing else planned. N.B big and little relates to age, size is opposite and as the middle child I am the shorty.
Youngest daughter (a Teacher Librarian) has set me two books to read and wants a report by Monday arvo, she says. I said ha ha I'd better not take my knitting then ( I have a 7 month old granddaughter and am much occupied with knitting for her).
 
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