Your global date preferences will be used. Preferences Can I change the dates in reports to 'day month year' Yes, change in the preferences ('Edit->Preferences') the date for GRAMPS to the required format (eg YYYY-MM-DD or day month year), and make the report. Pictures are stored on disk separately, so a large harddisk is necessary. For 120.000 people you must consider already 530Mb for the database. Disk space requirements for databases are however considerably larger, with a typical database being several megabytes in size. A system with 512MB should be able to hold around 200,000 people. For GRAMPS 2.0, the memory requirements have been reduced, and GRAMPS can run quite efficiently on a 256MB system, holding considerably more people. What are the Minimum Specs to run GRAMPS? We would recommend at least an 800圆00 video display.

However, some users have had success in installing 2.2.x on Mac OSX either running in native mode or running on X11 using some of the fink packages. Please contact the Fink project for more information. This present version of GRAMPS (2.2.x) does not appear to have been ported by the Fink project. The Mac OS X port is not directly supported by the GRAMPS project, primarily because none of the GRAMPS developers have access to Mac OS X and because OS X is not Free Software. Does it work with the Mac? The Fink project has ported some older versions of GRAMPS to OS X (tm). See also GRAMPS_and_Windows for a summary of hints to use GRAMPS on a Windows PC. A windows mailing list is available however and we will do our best to solve windows related problems. A Windows installer is available, however we do not have the manpower to offer support for Windows. You can then run Linux and GRAMPS off the CD, even if your computer is entirely Windows. Does it work with Windows? The Linux Genealogy CD can function as a live CD that you boot directly from. The GRAMPS project recommends version 2.8 or higher of GTK. If the GNOME bindings for Python are installed on the system, GRAMPS will have additional functionality. It will operate under the GNOME desktop, KDE desktop, or any other desktop. As long as these libraries are installed, GRAMPS should function. GRAMPS needs to have the pygtk libraries installed on the system. Installation What is needed to install GRAMPS under Linux, Solaris, or FreeBSD? GRAMPS is a GTK application. All reports fully support this, although for PDF/PS you need to work with gnome-print or openoffice. GRAMPS works internally with Unicode (UTF-8), so all alphabets can be used on all entry fields. gramps file format for backups! Does Gramps support Unicode fonts? In particular, does it support non-Roman Unicode fonts? Yes. Small damage to a GRDB file can also not be repaired. GRDB is a database, which might be computer dependent (read, not working on a different PC). gramps file format for backups! Do not keep backups in GRDB format. Hence, an export/import operation GRAMPS -> GEDCOM -> GRAMPS, will mean you lose data.

Not all information GRAMPS stores can be written in the GEDCOM. To see the XML select them and open them with a decompressing utility (like ark, gunzip), after which you can extract the XML file which is human readable, see details.

You can copy this backup file from time to time to a save location (eg a usb stick). If you have allowed this in the preferences (In Edit menu->Preferences->General), GRAMPS will keep a backup of your database on exit. GRAMPS has a specific portable file format which is small, and human readable, denoted by. It is extremely important to keep backups of your data, and keep them in a safe place. How do I keep backups? Use a recent version of GRAMPS! From 2.2.5 onwards there is an automatic backup utility. Does GRAMPS exist in other languages? Yes, at the moment GRAMPS is translated in 23 languages, see GRAMPS translations. You have full access to the source code and are allowed to distribute the program and source code freely. GRAMPS is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License. Where do I get it and how much does it cost? GRAMPS can be installed at no charge. In other words, it is a personal genealogy program letting you store, edit, and research genealogical data using the powers of your computer, see About. General What is GRAMPS? GRAMPS is the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Program System.

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