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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