FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
Hello All I have Family Tree Maker for Mac. I have noticed on many occasions I added a media like a photo or a tombstone into family tree maker and put it in a certain category so I know where it is located and then randomly after the media is processing/processed the file that i put in a certain category changed by itself from the online tree and put the media that I have been in a certain category into uncategorized it is never just one media item it is several sometimes like 7 -8 teams and it is getting annoying to keeps fixing it. Does anyone know what to do to prevent this?
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Re: FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
The on-line tree program has been going through some tinkering lately, the beta was rolled out system wide yesterday.
This could mess with syncing and it's frustrating there's no notification of the tinkering behind the scenes.
I advise (and this is contrary to Ancestry's dictum) to not allow auto-sync. I never have and I never have an issue. Constant syncing is unnecessary.
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Re: FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
I agree with only using manual syncing. But can I refuse the changes that Ancestry makes (I, too, have had media category changes made by Ancestry) while at the same time allowing the changes I've made in FTM Mac?
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Re: FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
The only time FTM asks you if you want to keep FTM changes vs Online changes is if there are conflicting changes. For example, if I marked someone as "Male" online and "Female" in FTM, when I sync it will ask me to pick one or the other. Otherwise I've never been able to find a way to reject from one side or the other.
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Re: FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
From what I understand you must set your sync to manual sync and that should solve the problem. I have a mac too, so I know how frustrating it is!
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Re: FTM Media Keeps Changing By Itself Sync Issues
I always use manual sync. But there's no way to tell sync not to accept the changes Ancestry makes without my permission (i.e., Ancestry changes hundreds of my media categories for some reason on occasion).
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