FamilySearch Indexing for Mac

I have recently started using the FamilySearch Indexing Java program for the Mac. When I have used past Java programs on the Mac, I have been given the option to make the applet into a *.app file for easy access. Does anyone know if this is possible for FSI?

Applications --> Utilities --> Java --> Java Web Start.app

highlight it, then

Application --> Create Desktop Application

Loging on is now a different story! It looks like Ensign just crashed the server!!! See Page 34 of the August 2007 issue!! I've been trying for over a half an hour to just submit a batch!!!! They hoped the article would have BIG results, though I don't think they knew it would be this big!!!!

Application --> Create Desktop Application?

Sorry I'm a bit of a newbie on Mac, where is this? I searched for it in the finder and couldn't find it.

Does this speed up the launch of FSI at all?

Thanks,

Rich

From your main system folder. You go through the folders, Applications --> Utilities --> Java --> Java Web Start.app.

Search for 'Java Web Start.' Click that, then there, at the top left of the screen you'll get the 'Application.'
Click FamilySearch Indexing just once, and then the Create Desktop Application option will work.



Speed wise, I think it just makes it easior to find it. When Family Search Indexing is slow, loading it is still slow.
(I got my last batch submited, did another one, and I've been trying for about an hour to submit this batch.)

Jesse Smith wrote:Loging on is now a different story! It looks like Ensign just crashed the server!!! See Page 34 of the August 2007 issue!! I've been trying for over a half an hour to just submit a batch!!!! They hoped the article would have BIG results, though I don't think they know it would be this big!!!!

Crashed it? Hmm well count our blessings of having tons of extractors. Soon the entire world will be digitalized.

I started doing this in May. If it was ever slow, it was more like taking just 10 or 20 seconds to load something or log on!! Right now it's like they got a DOS attack from having so many of us trying to do this!! I think when they come to work today, they'll probably work on doing some big server upgrades!

It looks like the article did a very good job at flooding the world with extractors, and it's been less than a week since they mailed it out!!

There is currently not way to make the applet into a *.app file for easy access but we are looking into this possibility. Thanks.

For now, our support for the Mac platform is limited to running it as a Java Webstart App on the Mac Java JRE

From that Java Web Start application you click 'FamilySearch Indexing' once, then from the top of the screen options, click 'Application,' and right there it has a 'Create Desktop Application' which makes an appication for easy access. You can see an example of that at the top of the posted image.

Thanks for the information I am going to get my ensign and start playing with this today.

I have notice a couple of small bugs, it seems the line numbers when indexing get off by one or two lines when they are highlighted in the upper screen, I have done 2 batches and it has happen on both.

What project did you index? Most are census records right now but there are one or two other projects that are different as well. If you did two different projects, even within the 1900 Census, was the bug consistent from one project batch to the other?

Thor0128 wrote:I have notice a couple of small bugs, it seems the line numbers when indexing get off by one or two lines when they are highlighted in the upper screen, I have done 2 batches and it has happen on both.

That happens a lot. To fix that, go to View --> Adjust Highlights.

Then on the image, go to say the bottom left corner and match that up with the bottom left of the home number box, the first one to the left out of three.

Then go to the bottom right, at the bottom of the Birth locations, where you got states and maybe countries listed. To the right of those you'll see three boxes. Match it up right with the bottom right of the first box, the year of immigration box. Then go up and do the same at the first box. Then go to the very left and match the Home number box. It should now match pretty well.

Then go back to View --> Adjust Highlight to get rid of that adjustment stuff.

You will have to do that any time you start a new batch and it's off, and any time you close the application and came back later to continue.

I can make little screen shots of the corners if they would help.

If you are still having a problem opening the indexing app then go here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?view ... cale=en_US
Click the download link at the top to download the installer file, then click the downloaded file to install Java se 6 following the prompts that appear. Do not follow the link to http://www.java.com at the bottom of the page because it will only give a later non-compatible version of Java.

I just got done indexing an obituary on my macOS Sierra which I have been doing for many years. I got the message that to send it I had to install new indexing software. Exactly how do I install this new software?