Yes, of course -- stupid of me. I retested and can confirm your theory
on the tab to space conversion. This is undoubtedly causing the other
reported problems with editing.
This may prove a nasty one to repair -- how will the program distinguish
between what really was three spaces and what got converted from a tab?
Folks might be in for a mess of manual labor.
Wm Voss
Jeremy Main wrote:
Hi Ed:
I believe the problem you are seeing is happening as part of the import and
is not an Intellishare/IntelliMerge issue, per se.
I've been looking at RIN # 1793 (Benjamin Robertson III) in your original
database. I imported a copy into itself and got the 89 individuals it says it
was 'not able to merge'
What I've found so far is that the General Notes of both the original and the
copy contains 112 lines. However, the original has 5,321 characters and the
copy has 5,345. So, there IS a difference after import which IntellPass
Merge is detecting.
However, the difference is that the original has 132 tabs versus 120 in the
copy/import (12 fewer in the copy). And the original has 847 spaces versus 883
in the copy/import (36 more in the copy). For a net difference of 24
characters. (5,345 - 5,321 = 24 ).
So.......
1) The import is changing SOME of the Tab characters to spaces, and
2) IntelliPass Merge is considering these tab/space differences significant.
I don't think you have a corrupt file. Only that the import is making some
unexpected changes. I'll look a littler further and tell you exactly which
lines are the ones being changed. Wm's utilitiy, UltraEdit, is probably not
considering these differences to be significant. A visual scan can see no
difference.
.../Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Barnard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sep 11, 2005 5:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Intellishare fails on 6.0 and V5-latest.
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
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