OK, I am feeling way stupid. Still beginning the Legacy trip, tho I am familiar with access. How do you open an .fdb file in access????????
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > This is probably just for Richard Van Wasshnova. I am following his > instructions from June (only have hard copy of the email now). > > Here's what I did: > Backed up my family file. ;) > Picked one basic master source that had only one citation to one person as > my trial run. > Added a master source to "go with" the basic source using SW template. > Tagged those two (and only those two). > Closed Legacy. > Opened Access... my .fdb file. > In tblSR I sorted Z->A on SrcTag field to get my 2 to the top. > On the basic source, changed "TemplateID" from 0 to 62 (to match the other > one). > On the basic source, changed "UseStandard" from 1 to 0 (don't use > standard). > Left "Contents" on basic one as is (empty). > Closed Access. Opened Legacy. > The used-to-be-basic master source now shows in the list with a dot, as > expected. > I highlighted it and clicked on the "Combine..." button at the bottom. > > Here's the problem: > The button did NOT change to "Highlight Destination Source..." as I was > expecting. > I tested it on another source, and it did change. > I tried it on the new SW source (that I had just added) and it did NOT > change. > I tried it again on the used-to-be-basic one, just to be sure, and it did > NOT change. > > Any thoughts? > > --Paula in Texas > Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough > Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd > Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell > McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams > > > > > 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 > > > >
