Ok. So you are running it on what is basically a beta version of Windows 11, that explains most of it. RM7 doesnt have any issues on my release version, at least not as of yesterday.
As for the FamilySearch issue, i believe Margaret addressed that as she said something about tranfering back to tour vurrent version after the cleanup.
Not sure what you mean here. Right click on a Mac does bring up the option to delete the fact. The issue is right click is implemented inconsistently throughout the UI, not that the Mac UI is incompatible with the Windows UI.
I didn’t say it wasn’t there. The point was that there are things that would be convenient that are not there because RM has said they wish to keep the Mac version the same as Windows. Shall we start another OS war?
That’s nonsense. There’s nothing in the Mac UI that’s preventing implementing a feature that could be present in the Windows UI. Absolutely nothing.
Buy the print manual (and read it).
Watch the tutorial videos in order.
Click on all the icons , buttons and fields to see what the choices are on each screen. On a mac this won’t get you into trouble but Windows is another matter. A right click is your friend.
Test what happens when you download/sync data from FS and Ancestry on a duplicate or test database to see what actually happens. Back up or duplicate files before large changes so you can undo disasters.
Actually it is the reverse: mac users have to cope with Windows type behaviour.
You can’t edit in the FS transfer screen, on either OS, this has nothing to do with Mac vs Windows. Click the Edit Rootsmagic Person button and right click on the birth fact and delete.
For sure the number of clicks necessary for both FS and Ancestry interfaces is a serious problem and if the RM team wanted to make it better they could, and it would work the same on both OS’s. Saying this is a Mac vs Windows issue is nonsense.
RM7 works perfectly fine on Windows 11. I have used it on a couple different computers for months. What one cannot do is access FamilySearch through RM7 as we could do in the past… To access FamilySeach I make a gedcom from my RM7 database and import it to RM10 where I can access FamilySearch. I have a huge database, so it takes awhile for RM10 to do the initial match of names in RM10 with FS should you want to do so.
Mac users suffer too, for compatibility with Windows!
True, but that’s the price for being a much smaller userbase on an OS that has little to no similar offerings -and- reciprocally …offers virtually few to no programs or software innovations (even of other types) offered cross-platform. Thus, at least there’s this as a compromise.
Windows has the larger (but shrinking) user base but the mac OS has plenty of innovative software built in and available as 3rd party programs including genealogy. Programs for ios and mac os normally adhere to higher standards required by the OS and users compared to Microsoft’s offerings. Rootsmagic is the exception to this behaviour.
There are a number of things I liked in RM7 that aren’t there yet in RM10, but the list is growing smaller. Since I use Ancestry heavily anything lower than the latest releases is out of the question, but I do pine for various things from RM7
Let’s stop the Mac-Windows discussion … we’re all happy with our choices (and eventually sometimes suffer a little bit .)
Merging identical places is easy. Merge them into one chosen name.
