Sounds like you have moved past this, but I'll throw in another idea for
manual cleanup (as opposed to starting over with a backup). I had some
corruption once that came from merging another person's data. The family
relationships and apparent duplicate people made no sense. I found that if I
searched for duplicate marriages, rather than people, and deleted the
incorrect marriages, then the other problems mostly sorted themselves out.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Eccles Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Merge has corrupted database
Thank you Jennifer and Tom,
I am pleased to hear that it isn't only me that has had this problem. I
have done other merges with drop and drag without any problem.
I have basicly followed Jim's advice.
1. Exported the offending family line into another legacy file using
tagging individuals.
2. Using the same tag number deleted that branch of the family that was
causing the problem.
3. Ran check and repair
4. Printed out a list of people in the second file from the name list and
used this list as a reference against my main file.
5. Using the above list, checked all people in my main file using the name
list. Tagged all the offending duplicate people, than search and find
those that were tagged and then deleted them. I found this was the
quickest way.
6. than ran check and repair again.
Although I had a backup, when this happened I had entered a lot of
information on different children of this family and this problem occured
on one children and her descendants - about 500 people. to go to the back
up meant losing information on about 1000 people.
Thanks for every one's help and suggestions. Thru solving the problem I
have learnt more about using Legacy so it was not all bad.
regards
Anne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:19 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Merge has corrupted database
Anne,
I read the other replies about restoring your family file from a good
backup
copy and I heartily agree.
Before importing again here is what I recommend:
1. Import the new records into a temporary working family file first.
2. Next examine the file carefully for problems and also run a
Check/Repair
on it (click on File and select File Maintenance > Check/Repair).
3. Open your main family file and also run Check/Repair on it. I do
Check/Repair on all of my family files regularly, even when I am not
getting
errors of any kind. It keeps them "healthy" and of course I always back
them up regularly.
4. At this point I do a split screen and drop and drag from the working
family file into my main family file and then do one more Check/Repair
just
for good measure.
Please see http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/tipsTrouble-Free.asp . You
don't
have to do all of the steps on this web page, just the main ones listed
above.
Jim Terry
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