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problems viewing large trees

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John

John Report 10 Oct 2007 18:47

If I try and view any large trees a warning box appears saying that my viewer will run slow and tells me to abort.

Any tips please ?

many thanks

john

Redharissa

Redharissa Report 10 Oct 2007 19:24

John, I'm afraid you will only be able to view large trees in immediate family view only. I've not been able to view full trees for anything over 200 names.

Tracey

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 10 Oct 2007 19:35

Personally I never use full tree view on this site at all.

But just out of interest, why would you want to view a full tree of more than, say, a hundred names anyway?

Samantha

Samantha Report 10 Oct 2007 20:09

Hi, I have this same problem. If I wait it never seems to open and then crashes. I figure maybe its a memory problem. I tend to have lots of windows open at the same time. If I close them it sometimes helps. I think it just depends on your computers memory.
Samantha

John

John Report 10 Oct 2007 21:00

samantha

That is the same symptoms as mine
I'll try checking out memory


peter

It is when I need to search someone elses tree for a surname that is not theirs but is in their tree, possibly not as a direct ancestor.

John

John Report 10 Oct 2007 21:18

Robert,

I think you have the answer

I will just have to be patient.

Many thanks for your help folks

Kind regards

John

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 10 Oct 2007 21:21

Sorry John, I still can't see why you want to look at an entire tree with thousands of names on it. Why not find the name you want and look in immediate family view. This is what I do in these circumstances, but then each has his own methods, I suppose.

However, back to the problem, you might try clearing your Internet temp files before opening the tree as the tree load is likely to fail if you have insufficient free space available.You might also look at increasing the size of the cache.