Ancestry download media taking over 24 hours?

When I have downloaded a tree from Ancestry into RootsMagic (I have 11) before it has taken an hour or two. Not this time!

My tree is large with over 16,000 people and has a lot of sources/media. I bought a new windows 11 laptop and hope I didn’t make a mistake. It is a NIMO 15.6’’ IPS FHD-Laptop, 16GB RAM 1TB SSD AMD Ryzen 5(Beat i5-1135G7, 4 Cores Up to 3.7GHz. I thought it had all that I needed and, as per usual with RootsMagic, the downloading and importing went pretty quickly but the media has been at 99% for hours and hours.

Is this possibly normal? Did I do it at really bad time as everyone is on Ancestry on the holiday? When should I give it up? If I X out the panel showing that I’m still at 99%, will I lose everything? Can I just use what has been downloaded without the media? Best next steps?

Please excuse my lack of knowledge/skill. I’m 72 and NOT a digital native!

If you cancel out, you will not lose anything that has been downloaded. I suspect that it’s closer to 100% complete than 99%, and that it may even be at 100%. It just seems to get stuck at the end instead of actually stopping. I do not know why. This problem has been reported many times before.

I seriously doubt that it has anything to do with your new machine. 16,000 people is actually fairly small as compared to some users. My database is about 40,000 and I consider it fairly small as compared to users with hundreds of thousands of people in their databases.

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Thanks! I did have a tree with 40,000 going back to Charlemagne, etc. but decide to create a tree with only proven ancestors!

I don’t have any lines I can trace anywhere near that far back. My database is only as large as it is because I track from my most distant ancestors back down to as many of their descendants as possible. So I have a lot of fifth and sixth and seventh cousins in my database (plus spouses). I frequently question how much I really care about tracking cousins that far removed from me.

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That is more likely what is happening. It downloads the info first and then the media. As thejerrybryan says it’s probably not the new computer.

For those newer to Genealogy research, years ago a Royalty database was distributed with one of the early versions of Family Origins (predecessor to RootsMagic). It is one of the few “guest” gedcoms I have added to my database. In 2018 Gary Boyd Roberts of the NEHGS published an update “Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants…” There are a number of fairly good resources. I tend to find the “old stuff” of much more interest than the latest generations. I figure I can leave the research of the newest generations to people closer to them in time as I am not comfortable asking for information on living people from people I do not know personally. I personally concentrate on pushing my own family lines back to early New England for the most part.

yeah its a hard to know what to “stop” but I have learned I am related to way more people that I would have expect (even if 8th or 9th cousins). I am related to several people connected through my wife by marriage – she is not “blood” relate but I am.(her sister inlaw and uncle by marriage for example). I tend to recognize patterns and know what to look for to find those more easily (this more of a gut instinct type thing than much else)