Family Tree Maker(TM) Warts
Stability/Integrity
Problems of program stability: Crashes and data loss or modification. 
 

  1. FTM is often implicated in the dreaded "screen freeze", where the PC stops responding to any keyboard or mouse input and screen content is "locked". I have no hard evidence that FTM is at fault here, but the freeze happens often enough when taking some FTM action, such as opening a new file, or displaying a report, to make me very suspicious.
  2. The Book Text Editor displays many erratic characteristics.
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