For the UnknownName.txt file, it appears that you have to close and restart Legacy after you create (or edit) the file. Apparently Legacy looks for and loads it during startup.
From: Kurt Kneeland [mailto:kurt-kneel...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 5:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Option Great tip on the UnknownName.txt file. I’ve also seen mention of .txt files for customizing the GeoCodes data. Are there any other of these little know customization techniques? From: John B. Lisle [mailto:leg...@tqsi.com] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 4:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Favorite Option C G, Randy, et al, When we first got to testing the PP Alerts, I felt the same way you are feeling. Today, the number of PP Alerts that pop up incorrectly - as determined by your settings - is very small. And when they happen, tell us about them so that the developers can look into them and get them fixed. There are two activities you can do that can significantly reduce your "false alarms". 1/ If you have various naming conventions for unknown given and surnames, you can list those in a file called UnknownName.txt. Help has the details. This allows you to still find problems in names but exclude the bulk of the names that you expect to not conform to "standards". 2/ The NEW category for Potential Problems called "Gaps" are going to drive many people wild. I think you need to adjust your use of those Gap settings. Please note that the settings for the Potential Problems Report determine what types of problems you want Alerts for. You can set the Gaps settings there for different time periods, or just turn those settings off, if you choose not to worry about those settings. I know I have fiddled with those to suit the needs of my family files. These instant PP Alerts are one of the great benefits of L8 as they alert you while you are entering data if you have entered something that does not make sense. And, as mentioned by someone else, the ability to know when you add a new person that the person may be a duplicate of someone already in your file, can save you a ton of work. L8 is going to change the way you do research and lots of folks do not like to change their habits. In the long run, these features will promote your research to being more accurate and better respected. Just my opinion... I could be wrong... john. At 03:31 PM 12/1/2013, C.G. Ouimet wrote: Especially since many of the problems are really false alarms … Too many fallse alarms leads to ignoring real ones … C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON From: Randy Clark [ mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com <mailto:ceddaco...@gmail.com> ] Sent: December 01, 2013 03:22 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Favorite Option I love Option 8.11 as it lets me turn off those annoying warning symbols. 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
