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Comparing .gno files within GenoPro

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Jakk
Posted Monday, June 12, 2017 - Post #38137
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GenoPro version: 3.0.1.4
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So... I have a *very* large genogram (over 17K individuals) that I have been working the problems out of since upgrading to GenoPro 2016. In January of this year (five months ago), I backed up my entire GenoPro directory (and everything else, but the rest of it isn't important by comparison). Shortly after that, I began breaking up the genogram to make it easier to work with. Since then, I have decided that I want to stick with the original unbroken genogram (mostly because selecting ancestors/descendants doesn't continue the selection through hyperlinks)... and reconnecting all of my breaks is going to be *hideously* time-consuming. Along the way, I added half a dozen individuals to the tree I was modifying (total count 17,407 vs 17,413). Finding them and adding them to the old tree will be straightforward enough... they will be the last six individuals created. However, I also added and corrected data for other individuals in the tree along the way, and I would like to be able to compare the two trees in their entirety (all data for individuals). I have a free binary file comparison tool, but it doesn't give me the information I need within GenoPro. Is there a way to do this, or are there plans to add this functionality to a future version?

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Jakk
Posted Monday, June 12, 2017 - Post #38138
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So... turns out my backups aren't old enough (I guess I started that fragmentation process earlier than I thought), so I'm continuing on with the re-connection of individuals to families manually. I'll return when this is complete... some time in the next decade. Sick

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Edited: Monday, June 12, 2017 by Jakk
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Posted Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - Post #38139
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One way to compare .gno file is to "unzip" them.  You can right-click on the .gno file and select an "unzip" program such as 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Or rename the extension .gno to .zip

Then, extract the file data.xml and give it a meaningful name such as "MyFamilyTree20170613.xml".  Do the same for the other .gno file you want to compare.

You may use a tool such as Windiff http://www.softpedia.com/get/File-managers/WinDiff.shtml or Notepad++ https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ which do file comparison.

Edited: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 by GenoProSupport

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