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From: Alfred <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] RM4 - Registration Key number unexpectedly "wiped out"from my RM4 database" - Help!
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:22:38 -0600
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You do not have to download again, just adding the registration key will
change Essentials to the full version.
Taking away the registration XML file will change the full version to
the Essentials version.

I don't know how the XML file which holds your registration code would
get wiped out.
On my Vista machine, it is located in C:\ProgramData\RootsMagic\version
4\RootsMagicapp.xml

I don't know about the color coding It works in Essentials just as it
does in the full version.
I would suspect that you may have opened a perevious version of your
database or restored an earlier backup file.
Check the RootsMagic Window menu to see if you have more than one
database loaded.
Check the File - Open Recent, to see if you may have another file that
you have been working on.

Alfred Eller
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~adelr/index.htm
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Ruth Hasten Walsh wrote:
> I have not upgraded to RM5. I have been using latest (last) update in RM4.
> Today, while at the Library of Congress (about 2:30 p.m. EST) I was working
> in the "To Do" folder when the registration key to my database "flew the
> coup". Not only did the "to do" folder disappear, but the color coded
> entries in the database also evaporated. I don't recall ever downloading
> the "free" version of RM4 because I upgraded from RM3. Now, it appears that
> what remains is the skeletal Rootsmagic Essentials, the free download
> version of RM4 that was offered. Before I re-enter the registration key and
> download RM4 again, can anyone tell me what likely happened to cause this
> catastrophe?
>
> I color code individual entries as method of telling me what I need to do to
> complete research on an individual and insert appropriate matching comments
> in the to do folder. With a database of over 94,000 people (many of whom
> had been color coded) I'm not very happy to discover I no longer have a To
> Do List that matches a carefully color coded working database. After
> re-entering the registration key and downing RM4, I can only hope that my
> January 13, 2012 backup RM4 file opens up properly, complete with "to do"
> list and color coded individuals.
>

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