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From: "W May" <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Can't restore backup
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:09:47 -0800
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Many thanks to all who replied. I certainly appreciate your taking the time
to do so.

Apparently, creating a folder under Documents and restoring to it did the
trick. But now I find I have a new "may.rmg" file in the Documents folder
and the old "may.rmg" file in the RootsMagic folder under Program Files. Can
I safely delete the latter?

Thanks again,

Bill May

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfred Eller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Can't restore backup


> Oh yes, I forgot that Windows now shows the contents of a zip file just
> like it was a folder.
>
> "C:\Program Files\RootsMagic\ " tells me that you are using Vista and
> your database is normally in the program folder.
> (I should have guessed you were trying to use Vista.)
>
> First off, Microsoft doesn't want anyone to change anything in the
> "Program Files" folder
> I have preached against this many times, but many people haven't heard
> my sermon yet.
>
> Create new folders for your databases and other data files, either
> directly in a drive or in My Documents.
> Go to the RootsMagic Tools>Options and set the Files options to point to
> these folders.
>
> Now try restoring that backup in that designated folder, NOT under
> Program Files.
>
> Alfred D. Eller
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm
> =====================================
>
>
>
> W May wrote:
>> Actually, I don't seem to need anything to view the backup files. Simply
>> clicking (once) on the file name "may (2008-11-01).zip" in the left pane
>> where they are stored will display the individual files in the right
>> pane.
>> There are 37 of them.
>>
>> Perhaps I'm not describing the problem correctly, so let me go over it
>> step
>> by step: When I open RootsMagic, it displays a database over a year old.
>> When I click File>Restore Backup, I get a window with a space to insert
>> "Backup to restore". I browse to the proper location and click on the
>> file
>> "may (2008-11-01).zip" to restore and it's entered into the space. A
>> second
>> space in the window is for "Folder to restore backup in". It has
>> C:\Program
>> Files\RootsMagic\ already entered, so I leave it as is. I then click
>> "Begin
>> restore" and get a window asking "Overwrite the existing database?" I
>> click
>> "Yes" and get a window saying "The backup was not fully restored." And
>> nothing has changed in the outdated database. How do I restore to a
>> different folder?
>>
>> Bill May
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alfred Eller" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [RMagic] Can't restore backup
>>
>>
>>
>>> RootsMagic does NOT restore a backup into any database, it just
>>> uncompresses an existing one.
>>>
>>> You do not need RootsMagic to change a RootsMagic backup into a
>>> RootsMagic database.
>>> WinZip will do it. If you happen to have it installed, double clicking
>>> on a RootsMagic Backup will call WinZip and a click or two will
>>> uncompress it into the 35 or so files of the database which you can then
>>> open with RootsMagic.
>>>
>>> If the backup will not restore, you may be able to look at it with
>>> WinZip (there are a few other compression programs which would do it
>>> too.) to see if you do have at least 33 files in the backup. Without all
>>> of the files, it will not restore properly.
>>>
>>> Otherwise, I do not know why your backup will not restore.
>>>
>>> It sounds like you did one thing right, you made a backup of your
>>> existing database before trying to restore it's old backup..
>>> If you do not want to overwrite an existing database, you can rename
>>> that existing database or restore to a different folder.
>>>
>>> A backup cannot be completely restored if it is trying to overwrite an
>>> existing database that has any of it's file "Read Only" attributes set.
>>>
>>> Alfred D. Eller
>>> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm
>>> =====================================
>>>
>>>
>>> W May wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had, in fact, added data lately--but backed it up. The file (.rmg)
>>>> that
>>>> now opens is dated 7/23/2007 and doesn't have the recent data. The
>>>> latest
>>>> backup file (.zip) is dated 11/01/2008. I have tried to restore it into
>>>> the
>>>> database containing the old file and into a newly created, empty one. I
>>>> now
>>>> understand that one can't restore into an empty database but it won't
>>>> restore into the old one, either. Any advice?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Bill May
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Alfred Eller" <>
>>>> To: <>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 11:47 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RMagic] Can't restore backup
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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