FTAnalyzer Download issue

The download is a zip file. It sounds like the "Calibre" program (never heard of it) has grabbed the .zip extension and said it would deal with it. What sort of program is "Calibre"?

 

Its a library type program. Like ITunes for ebooks

 

Ah then Norman has probably hit the nail on the head. It is probably where to save the file that is the issue. If Siobhan can give some details as per Norman's suggestion then we can diagnose the issue further and provide a solution.

 

Ok, not sure what advice you've had, but I'm sure we can crack this

There's been a few new releases, so the first thing I would do is to go here and download the latest version.

After pressing the purple box which is aptly called Download, it will download a .zip file (see*1 below).
Depending on the system you're running, you maybe prompted as to where you want the zip file saved, or it may save it for you in the download folder. So be sure you know where its downloading the zip file to.
We need to locate this zip file and double click it to open it. At this point, all we have done is open the zip to see what is in it, we now need to extract (uncompress) all the files so that they can be used again.

On my system, there is an "extract all files" button which launches the Extraction Wizard. Follow the steps and this will extract all the files and place them in the folder that it's suggesting in the top box. Make a note of where that is or change the folder location to one that you want. Personally I don't change it.

After pressing next and the extraction process has been completed, there is a little tick box that should be ticked which says Show extracted files. Press the Finish button

A new window should open, that shows all the files and folders that have just been created on your PC.

The top file should be called FTAnalyzer.exe (depending on your system configuration, the .exe may not be shown.)

Right click on the file FTAnalyzer.exe

Scroll down the menu to the option "Send to", and select "Desktop (create shortcut)" off the next menu.

On your desktop now, you will find a new icon called "Shortcut to FTAnalyzer.exe"

Double click this to run FTAnalyzer.

Every time you want to run FTAnalyzer just come back to the desktop and double click this shortcut icon.

Please let me know if you still have any issues.

*1 A Zip file is a compressed version of all the files FTAnalyzer needs and they are used to make files smaller and therefore more portable. (Here's a more through explanation on ZIP files.)

 

Hi Siobhan,

If Tim's advise doesn't help what version of windows are you using this will tell us why you can't find a program to unzip your files. I suspect you are using Windows XP or a Mac?

If its Windows XP then you can download the Free utility 7-zip which will understand how to open the compressed zip file. The file comes compressed so it is quicker to download in this case 3 times quicker.

 

Hi Siobhan,

We're just glad that you have it working

You can find info on creating the Lost Cousins tag here for FTM. Once you've done a few, create a new gedcom file and load this new file into FTAnalyzer, then you'll see how really impressive the the Lost Cousins Report is

 

The new version 2 of FTAnaylzer now has a much simpler "ClickOnce" installer. This will create a shortcut on your desktop and will auto install the program for you using Microsoft's Click Once technology. It also means that the program will auto update the next time you run it. No manual downloads anymore just click and run.

 

Windows 8 comes with .Net 4.5. Windows 7 comes with .Net 4.0 in order to be compatible with both I needed to use .Net 4.0 so you need .Net 4.0 installed. There is a link on the install instructions. I'll update them for Windows 8.

You are now working properly?