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Subject: Re: Family Tree Maker -- Rootsweb and Copy, Cut/Paste vs. Attach
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 06:21:58 EST

Tim,

Your cousin should first open Family Tree Maker (or whatever genealogy program
he's using). Go to File, then to Open Family File. An "Open Family File"
dialogue box will open. If he's using Windows 95 or higher, it will say either
"Open File" or "Look In" at the top of the box. He should then click on the
icon that is a file folder with an arrow on it which will take him back one
level to the "C" directory. From there he should double click on American On
Line (or AOL), then find the download file, double click on the download file,
and he'll find the file you sent him there.

If it isn't there, maybe he didn't actually download the file. If he kept your
message with the attachment, he can go back to it, open it up, and click on
Download. If he's already downloaded it, he'll get a message that it's already
downloaded. If he hasn't, then he'll be asked where he wants it downloaded to,
in which case he can let it download to American On Line\Download or he can
put it anywhere else he wants.

If he did download it and still can't find it, here's a tip which thrilled me
no end when I graduated to WIN95 (and now WIN98 at home):

Click on Start
Select Run
Type the word WINFILE and press enter.

This will bring up the old program manager from Windows 3.1 days -- I hate
Windows Explorer and use WINFILE exclusively for moving files around. He can
then select File, then select Search. In the dialogue box, type in the name of
the file you sent him, or if he's not sure, he can type (this is an example,
obviously not the filename): Smith*.* Anything beginning with Smith will come
up in another box that will tell him the root directory and the
directory/subdirectory where he can find the files. If you sent him a GEDCOM
file, tell him to type *.GED and all the GEDCOM files (or .FTW if you sent him
a FTM file) on his system will be listed, and he'll know where to go to open
the file in his genealogy program.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

Karen Mullian


In a message dated 2/4/99 1:47:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

> Can one of you AOLers possibly help me out? I sent a copy of my FTM file
> to a cousin as an e-mail attachment. He is on AOL and is rather new at
> this. He can't seem to find it in the "Persnal filing cabinet". I
> don't know the AOL interface at all so I was wondering if anyone might
> have a suggestion to help him out.

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