Elizabeth, There was an LUG discussion in April about duplicate searching, and another last month on the web page about the new feature for instant duplicate checking. You mention that you used Intellishare, but the problems might be with the candidate duplicates that are presented to you in that feature. If there are differences in the names of the individuals – even subtle differences – then often Legacy will not bring them to your attention as potential duplicates. You can experiment with the settings for this to see if it helps a little. (I have asked Millennia for future enhancements in this area.)
After you go through the merge process, have a look for undetected duplicates. One way is to look at the name list. Once you find a duplicate, you can invoke the manual merge function for just this pair of individuals. Doing that often brings up new candidates for merging, for related individuals, so you end up sorting out multiple duplicates. I would be careful about deleting the family files that you have merged, until you are really certain that you have everything in your new, combined file. A suggestion is to keep the old family file (or a backup file of it), but to rename it so that you can see exactly what it represents and not confuse it any further with the new, active file. Ward From: elizabeth Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 8:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Merge ALL into one very confused Hi group, I would like to merge ALL my separate Legacy family files into one big file (they are all the same family)....I am finding it easier to work with it that way, for me. I read back through the archives of this group to learn all I could about doing this, but I'm having problems. I created a 'new' family file to begin with. I then imported the most recent backup of the main family file I had been working with the most, to use as the 'base'. But a couple of things are happening that I don't understand.... 1) When I tried to import a family file that I had kept separately for one particular group of the family, it 'doubled' the information and put the people in twice. It showed the wife as having 2 husbands and 2 sets of children and the husband having one set of stepchildren and 1 set of children even though both sets are all the same people. What did I do wrong? I used the Intellishare feature. 2) 'Some' of the people who were imported from a different family file were marked with a Tag even though I had not tagged them. How did that happen? 3) I want to make absolutely sure that I get all the notes, research, etc. into this new family file but there are sooooo many backup files on my computer that I can't figure out which ones to import. Do I have to import every one of them and compare them in order to make sure I have everything? That would take a long time to do! Even though most of the family files I want to merge into this new one are all the same people, I am finding that the files contain lots of different information. I now think that many times when I opened Legacy to add info, I was actually opening different files...not the same one all the time, because I wasn't always using the same computer. I had Legacy on so may different computers over the years as well as copies on flash drives that I am 'swimming in' lots of different copies!! So I am finding info in old files that isn't in the most recent backup. 4) After I import a family file into this new family file I just created, is it safe to delete it so I ca get rid of most of the ones on my computer and sort of 'start over'? How do I get all this merged---from all my multitude of backups on various computers and flash drives--- into one family file??? Thanks! Elizabeth Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
