Ron, Henry, Wm, Thanks for the suggestions!
I've been investigating myself, as well. It now appears to me that I have a corrupted database, as someone suggested. The corruption dates back to prior to the conversion to the new format, but didn't manifest itself until after the conversion. Here's what I've tried. (Hopefully Sherry will see this!) I went back to a July backup, ~4000 names, same problem. That is, I restored from backup, converted to new format, closed, made a copy, merged the two copies, got spurious differences in the notes. Same with a May backup of ~450 names. Early May backup of ~150 names didn't fail; nor did a March backup of ~120 names. I took the latest master db from my genealogy partner (we always do ftp transfers, which should have integrity checking) and followed Ron's suggestion: I opened the file, did check/repair, did control-b backup, closed, restored from that backup, saved, made a copy, imported the copy, got spurious differences on the merge - but only about 20 differences this time. Meanwhile, I have a completely different database (different family) which I've not touched since May 9th 2005. I merged two copies, it did merge without any differences. So, yes, the problem may well be specific to the one database. Sherry, when Millenia's able to take a look, please let me know, and we'll give you the current database for repair. Thanks for the help everyone with the suggestions, and in verifying the problem! Best Regards, Ed Barnard, maybe a legacy deluxe user again soon On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 15:26, Wm Voss wrote: > I imported your Original into your Clone and ran IntellShare/Merge and > got 89 records that could not be auto merged, just as you did. I copied > the pairs of notes out of a dozen records and did a file compare in > UltraEdit; none showed any difference at all. I also did compares on the > full family files and on exported gedcoms; no difference found in either. > > Beats me what's going on, but I'd sure not trust it until someone > figures out the problem. > > Wm Voss Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
