On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 7:16:26 -0500, <sarge1...@cox.net> wrote: >In setting up my Master Sources, I thought I was doing the right thing by >adding a source detail using the 'picture --> Picture --> file' routine. >After having just done a massive and time-consuming cleanup of my Master >source, I now find that having added this source detail to several hundred >persons, that I have a whole bunch of RIN's on the 'Missing.txt' report >produced when I run the Location 'Options --> customize --> Location --> >test...' feature. The resultant 'missing.txt' file is some 30-40 pages long >(over 800 records). Is there a way to remove the source detail 'file' from the >master source without having to go each of the RIN number in the 'missing.txt' >output and change each one individually. The error I seem to have encountered >was in changing the titles of the scanned files located in my 'docs' file >during cleanup, thus denying the Legacy program a method of identifying the >location of the file. > > The 'details' on one source alone involves some 300+ persons. I've tried a > search and replace and some of the LTools features, but have not found a way > to remove the source detail. Absent using the 'missing.txt' file and > correcting each RIN noted there, I could delete the source and all associated > persons, and then re-do the whole source. Just hoping someone has a better > suggestion than my poor efforts.
I am totally confused as to what you did and why you want to delete source detail (instead of repairing it). Maybe a single example illustrating (step-by-step) what you did and why it is broken would help my aging brain figure this out. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
