I'm testing out the free version of Legacy 7, version 7.0.0.109 build date 1 Sept 2009 on a vista operating system on HP Pavilion dv6000 lap top. I built the data with gedcom file from Family Tree Builder program and then was adding in information on other people manually. I am not having a problem with any of the information transferred through gedcom. I noticed the problem when I began to type in manually a few newspaper or census information using the source writer option. So the problem I having is with those sources created using the source writer. The ones with a bullet in front of them.
I have entered in four or five obituaries and several census records this way. I use the source writer to create the master source and click on master source text tab and enter in the information from the obituary or census record into the master source text box. Once the master source was created then I save it. Then for the next event for a certain person, I will select the newly created master source for any event it pertains to that person. Such as birth, death, parent relationship or residence information. Usually an obituary will deal with about 15 to 20 people with an average of two or three events per person. I will select this master source for each event about each person. I didn't notice the problem right away because I actually I don't lose what I typed in right away because I can see it under a person's assignment source screen under a box labeled Output: Master Text. Since I seen it displayed on this screen, there was no reason to go back and check in the master source to see if I could find the information under the master source text tab and box. Why would I check for something I can see? It's there in the assigned person's screen under Output: master source text. Then I noticed a misspelled word in one of bits on information and I thought I would simply go out into the master source text and change that one word. I hit the button edit master source from the person's assigned source screen and when I went to view the text to change the word, there is nothing in the master source text box to edit. It's empty. This has happened on every single master source that I created with the source writer option. Maybe I thought I looking in the wrong place, so I saved the master source and the text disappeared. That means I was in the right place because I just overwrote my information with the blank box in the master source text box. So I learned that if I save that master source box when I find it empty, it overwrites the master source with nothing and I lose what I typed. But if I cancel out of the master source and then go back to the person's assigned source screen under the output: master text the information that I typed in the first time is still there. I can't edit it which is a problem for me. I don't have a problem as long as I never want to change a single word or letter or number in what I first typed. But since I have a tendency to switch letters when I type, I'm going to need to go and fix misspelled words and incorrect numbers and letters. I don't always notice the misspelled words the first time. So that is where I sit right now. I can see what I typed into the master text through the person's assigned source screen and the information stays there as long as I don't go back in and edit the master source. I can't figure out why I can't edit the information. I have several master sources were a flipped letters and incorrect date when my fingers went over to far. So right now, some of my data is no good because it is wrong and I can't correct it. I could remove them and redo every source I typed in through the past two or three weeks and never use the source writer option again but I really don't want to do this. It would be a lot of work. Thanks, Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn Clark" <paddypeppe...@yahoo.com> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Missing Master Source Text I have not run into this problem. Tell us your Operating System and build number for Legacy 7. Sometimes this makes a big difference. This is a great group - someone will have an answer for you! Marilyn --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Brent and Judy Schultz <wri...@pressenter.com> wrote: > From: Brent and Judy Schultz <wri...@pressenter.com> > Subject: [LegacyUG] Missing Master Source Text > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 8:10 PM > > > > > > > > I'm having problem > with disappearing text within a > master source that is created using the Source Writer > option in Legacy > 7. Any text that I type into the master source text > box can be viewed under > assigned sources screen under output master Text for > a person, yet when I > click on edit source and to pull up the original text to > change a word or > something else, there is nothing in the master source > text box. It's empty. > If I back out of master source with a cancel, I can still > see the text in the > Output Master Text box under a person's assigned source > screen. If I save the > source, I lose everything I typed into the text box. I > didn't notice this > problem for a long time until I tried to correct a spelling > mistake within a > master source text. I contacted support but they told > me not to use the > master source text for entering in text from your source > instead use the detail > text box and retype it in for each person. I > didn't have a very helpful > support person so I'm asking if any one else ran into > this problem or noticed > this problem. > > I warn you that > you won't notice the text is > missing from the master source text box unless you edit the > master source but be > careful because you will lose what you typed. If you > find the text box > empty be careful and cancel out or you will lose what > you typed before. And > note, this problem doesn't happen unless you use the > source writer to create the > master source and then type into the text box. You can tell > if a source was > created using the source writer because it will have a > "bullet" in front of it > when you display the master source list. Also, you > won't have this problem if > you used gedcom or if you typed in the data without using > the source > writer. > > Can anyone help? Has > anyone else experienced this > problem? > > Thanks, > Judy > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 > 2009: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
