Peter When you first sent your message, did you send it as "plain text" which is how it is supposed to be. This might explain why doing a "reply" worked OK.
The "backups" go into a Zip file and so it's very unlikely that you could have opened the wrong file when accessing Legacy. Try searching your machine for files named *.fdb . These are the main Legacy database files. Maybe you have made a second copy somewhere, especially if you have altered the default locations in Customise. Of course Windows Explorer will also tell you about the ones embedded in a Zip file as well as the normal ones, but you should be able to tell the difference and they should be in different folders. The save that occurs, as you put it, is a "soft" save and it is just possible that the last transaction isn't actually saved if you immediately have a crash. But most of us find that when you re-open Legacy after a crash that the data is actually right up to date. The underlying system is MS Access and that does seem to write to disk pretty immediately after the request (too soon sometimes as it doesn't allow a "Cancel" in some circumstances) As for Backup not working properly, that is very unlikely as it just makes a copy of all the associated files e.g. if the database is called Smith then effectively Smith.* are copied to a Zip file. It isn't a record by record copy. Jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Holmes Sent: 25 November 2005 15:56 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] test message G'day, 12 hours ago I sent the following message to the list using [email protected] but so far it does not appear to have appeared. Am I correct? Being new to the list I'm keen to get my "filtering & message sending rules" set correctly so this time I've "replied" to another message already received. PETER H G'day from Perth Western Australia, I'm brand new to this list but have been transcribing most of my accumulated data onto Legacy Std 5 (converted to 6 yesterday) for the lat 4 months. All appeared to be going well until about 5 weeks ago when I noticed - when printing a descendents report - a duplication of names covering about 3 generations. Because I could not solve it my self and my local "Legacy mentor" was otherwise committed elsewhere I stopped inputting on the main family but I did add to some non affected (in law) families. We've had another look at the main family & it and it appears to have been caused by giving one wife of my main family the same husband twice. That has now I hope been rectified. During the 5 weeks I attempted to back up and I don't think that it worked as it should. I say this because I know that certain in law ancestral data was transcribed but is now no longer shown in the updated format. A further complication is that during some data entry Legacy software "complained" about what I was doing and the system shut itself down. On reopening I (perhaps) dealt with another branch of the in law tree and did not notice any problems. I wonder if what might have happened is that as a result of EITHER the backups not being processed as expected or the "crashes" the "backed up" version of the main fdb file is occasionally opened up and then I input some data to it. If there is a second file, I cannot locate it. QUESTION - is it expected that the back up process creates one or more versions of the file & if so have others experienced this possible system opens various versions of the file? QUESTION - although when adding/creating data in one of the personal or event windows we press "save" is this a total (or "hard") save or just a simply a "soft" save to allow us to move onto the next window? I had gone into the "customise" windows a few days ago to see what could be done and to set my own requirements, so perhaps I'd altered something that has influenced this non retention of data. Any constructive suggestions will be appreciated. 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 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
