I’m preparing a family tree for export for a project, and there’s some research/individuals that I don’t want included. How can I delete all ancestors, events, etc. related to a specific person? In this way I want to “prune the tree” of unneeded branches, so to speak.

I have good and bad news. The bad news is, that I can’t reproduce the export error, not on Linux, nor on Windows 10 or 11, with Gramps 5.1.6 or my personal 5.1.7. The good news is, that the handle shown in the error message can be found in the Gramps XML of your tree, as a link in a note. And that …

Thank you very much for the hand-holding! Unfortunately, I continue to run into a crash when I try to export my data using this method. It only happens if I change the reference filter to “do not include records not linked to a selected person.” I’ll report the crash using the tracker, but here it …

H’m, weird. Have you run check & repair recently? I remember seeing similar things, when people had the privacy filter on, when exporting. And that came, because some part of the code assumed that some object existed, and couldn’t handle the fact that the privacy filter blocked access. You didn’t …

There is a chance that this was cured in a more recent version. Would you be willing to try that?

I tried the following things: Ran check and repair - a few minor issues, but nothing major. I don’t have the privacy filter on. I upgraded to the latest Gramps and tried again, but unfortunately the error persists. The other frustrating part is that it seems to be impossible to full out a bug rep…

I tried it here too, and I can select the project, with Firefox. The screen is a bit deceptive, because the menu seems to be greyed out, but it works when I test it. If you want, I can try the export with the debugger on, if you can send me a copy of the problem database in some form, like a zipped…

[image] takaji: The other frustrating part is that it seems to be impossible to full out a bug report because it’s not possible to select the Gramps project on the bug reporting page: Select Project - Gramps - Bugtracker – Free Genealogy Software You must be logged in to select a project on …

That’s the page that you’re taken to when reporting a bug in Gramps. In the window, the first button is “copy to clipboard,” and the second button opens a browser on that page. I think it might be preventing a lot of users from reporting bugs (just a guess) - and I have yet to see why I can’t selec…

Thanks for the info. [image] takaji: I have yet to see why I can’t select anything in the dropdown. As far as I can tell using browser debug tools (F12 in most browsers) it is related to being logged in. When not logged in, the code for the page shows the choices being “disabled”. After logg…

[image] codefarmer: Tagging @sam888 - has anything changed recently regarding this flow that would cause the project choices to be disabled when not logged in? I think something might have reverted in the MantisBT settings. The security token timeouts problem is back… and in a big way. I los…

Hello ! I don’t read all of the solutions, but it seems that no one talked about using tags. Briefly, the way i think i’ll do : Create a copy of the tree (export / import in a new tree) and work on this specific copy) Creating a tag like “To keep” (not to remove) Selecting objects (persons, fami…

Delete all ancestors and events related to a specific person

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That’s because there was a discussion about slowness in mass adding and removal of thousands of tags last week. It kicked off a major performance review and a new major project.

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