Thanks, Dennis - that's perfectly clear now! "For this Import, always overwrite the existing event with the incoming event" will replace the default events and their sentences with my own Custom Events. I will try that - all this because I have lost my Child Status List! Are there any other pitfalls or drawbacks to Exporting to a New File? (I'm aware that embedded dates being replaced by date and time of creation.) Mary Young
On 2/22/09, Dennis M. Kowallek <kowal...@iglou.com> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:33:48 +0000, Mary Young <m...@cmy.org.uk> wrote: > > >Thanks - but why should Legacy be trying to match Event Definitions at all? > >And matching to what?? > > > Because what Legacy apparently does is first create a blank database > with all the default event types, child statuses, etc. Then it tries to > move the data from the source database to the target. > > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek (LTools) > http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
