nkess
January 18, 2024, 7:18pm
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A quick search in the box above for 217 came up with several post abt runtime error 217–didn’t read thru all of them and I am no expert BUT these 2 are interesting…
After dragging about 30 individual records between 2 databases, one connected to Ancestry, the other not linked to any online tree, the Ancestry linked database file grew from 9.7Mb to 873Mb and can no longer be opened. I backed up the file on shutdown and it too is corrupt. Reopening the application resulted in the message ‘Runtime error 217 at 0040C4B3’ and had to edit the file RootsMagicUser.xml and remove the contents of the line ‘LastFilename’ before RM8 would launch. Emptying the cont…
We are aware of a problem with the new Windows update (8.2.5) when creating reports. We have tracked it down to an issue with a DLL we updated when creating the installer. This issue does not affect the Mac version (which doesn’t use the DLL). It only affects users who downloaded the Windows update BEFORE 7 AM Mountain Time this morning.
We have updated the installers with the original DLL.
If you have already downloaded 8.2.5 for Windows, go to:
https://rootsmagic.com/Download/RootsMagic-8/
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have NOT had an update for a little while now-- but maybe it’s a DLL
again not suggesting you do any of this…