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Saving a Project

JPrise Gedcom Merge uses the concept of project to allow you to accomplish a big project as a series of small sessions.  You define a starting place when you open a new project.  As soon as you save that project, you have captured snapshots of the two input files so that the project is insulated from further changes to them.

We are at a good point in the Tutorial to quit running as a step-by-step Tutorial and let you use JPrise Gedcom Merge to complete the merge on your own.  So, we will show you how to save the project and turn off the Tutorial Mode. The program will re-open automatically on the saved project when you leave Tutorial Mode.   If you do not want to continue that project, you can start another one instead.

Saving: In the File menu you will find
Save Project and Save Project As.  These will save an unfinished project for continued work.  Press  Save Project As and give the project a name such as "Tutorial.mpj".  Once you have done that you may return to this project using Open Project at any time in the future.  When JPrise Gedcom Merge opens up, it remembers the most recent project that was worked on, and will open that one up by default.

Exit Tutorial Mode:

You may now exit the Tutorial Mode.  When you do that, JPrise Gedcom Merge will close and re-open on the project, but not in the Tutorial Mode.  To do this use the Help Menu:

Toggle the "Do Tutorial" checkbox.
As the program closes it gives you an opportunity to save your project again.  You don't need to do it twice, so hit cancel.

As noted at the beginning of the tutorial, you probably spent about an hour to get to this point.  It took the program author about 20 minutes to complete the merge of these files.  It might take a user an hour to do the same thing.  Once you have gotten that far, you will have a very good idea of how to use the program on your own data.

Have fun using JPrise Gedcom Merge!



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