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« on: Friday 15 October 10 16:57 BST (UK) »
I think I may have found a very serious bug in my version of Family Tree Maker 2010, and I wondered if anybody else could confirm or not that this is the case with all versions.
If this is the case then it is an extremely serious shortcoming of a programme which is entirely based on dates.
It seems that the 'Find' function does not look in the 'Date' field of any facts data. And so you cannot find and replace any dates.
When I use the 'Find' option to find a date which I know is there in the 'date' field of say a Birth fact it doesn't find the result I expect BUT neither does it return with 'No Results Found'.
It just returns to the initial 'Find And Replace' window after a brief flicker.
For instance, a person shown in the UK FreeBMD Births Index as being born in the Mar quarter, I have entered as, "Abt. Feb" in the FTM 'Birth Fact' data 'Date' field.
I would like to replace this with "Bet. Jan-Mar".
When I enter "Abt." in the 'Find' box of the 'Find And Replace' window, the 'Find And Replace' window flickers briefly but nothing else happens. No results are returned.
I have tried this on three different computers.
I have created a simple, test, two person database and it fails to work with that.
I have tried all combinations of the tick boxes on the 'Find And Replace' window.
Of course I could do this manually for each one of several hundred entries, but can anybody tell me if I should be able to use 'Find And Replace' to do this globally?
You can't seem to 'Find' any part of the date (day, month, or year) if it is in the date field of ANY fact data, such as Address, Birth, Baptism, Occupation, Death, Marriage, Christening, Burial. In fact ANY fact data that has a date field associated with it.
It won't even Find 'Feb' for example, which I KNOW exists in many, many Fact Data 'Date' fields.
This MUST be a serious problem for FTM isn't it?
Has anybody else met this problem or can confirm or otherwise my experience?
Maybe this has been fixed with 2011. Anybody know or can test if it has?
The version I have installed is:-
Family Tree Maker 2010
Version 19.0.0.206
Product Code 039599F00
Windows XP Professional SP3