I did wonder along the same lines as Wendy, but Peter, if you are anything like me, my Genesreunited Tree is a GEDCOM loaded files comprising a stripped down version of my main family file, and hence I would lose too much data by doing it that way. In fact I did not make any suggestion because which ever way I looked at it one way or another one would have to just about make the entries individually, except, of course, those which are are in family groups which can be merged as a group. This I would do using the split screen view and dragging from one file to the other.
Full details are in the help files. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 10:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Transfers from one data file to another Hi Peter, Let me see if I've got this straight... you have one file, let's call it MAIN.fdb which is your main working Legacy file. The other, let's call it OTHER.fdb, started out as a copy of MAIN.fdb and then was added to. Now you want the content of OTHER to be the content of MAIN. Is that right? If that's the case, then I would simply rename the two files. Rename MAIN.fdb to something else, maybe MAIN-OLD.fdb. I'd do this rather than just delete it, 'cos you might want to refer back to it one day. Now that there is no MAIN.fdb file, you can rename OTHER.fdb to MAIN.fdb, and you've achieved what you set out to do. If that's not right, and there are people in OTHER than you want to copy/import over to MAIN without copying/merging everyone, then there are probably several ways to achieve it. One would be to make a copy of OTHER and edit out the people you don't want to copy/import, so the file is left with only those you want to add to MAIN. Then merge the two files. Does that all make sense? Do say if it doesn't, or I haven't understood the situation correctly, so we can try to help you further. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Peter Bottrell said the following on 30/09/2012 4:51 a.m.: > I have two data files within Legacy. One file has approximately 700 > more individuals than the other. which other is my main, current > working file. The bigger file has been downloaded from my Genes > Reunited entry, and the additional entries were added thereto by me, > before a computer malfunction. > > My question is - how can I transfer these 700 people to the other > file? I don't want to simply combine the files entirely, but add > these additional individuals to my main file, where they should be. > > Peter 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
