Carl,

This final build that Jim posted is compatible with files opened in Legacy
v6.

There should be no problem importing a Gedcom into any version of Legacy.
The error message you received sounds like one you'd get when trying to
either restore a backup or open a Family File in a build earlier than the 10
Aug 2005 build of Legacy v5.

Thanks for using Legacy.

Sherry
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Terry
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM problems

Carl,

You can download previous versions of Legacy at
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/helpDownloadVersion5.asp .

Jim Terry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carl Cox
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM problems

One of my family has w98 on their computer, but we tried Legacy 6. It had
problems, so we went back to Legacy 5. However, Legacy 6 updated the
database in the brief time we tried it out, so Legacy 5 would not open it. 
We could not find a Legacy 5 copy of the database, so I took the Legacy 6
database and made a GEDCOM to put in Legacy 5. However, we got an error
message that we had to have a later Legacy to open the file. Oh Oh!

I thought that the computer must be thinking the GEDCOM was a database, so I
went through the same process in different ways several times, but always
with the same result. Legacy showed a database just a little larger than the

GEDCOM with each name we had given it, but of course we could not see what
was in there.

Is Legacy keying on the SOURCE statement in the GEDCOM which says Legacy 6? 
Shouldn't the program ignore that and accept any GEDCOM? I have done this
same thing in the past with versions of Legacy, and had no problem.

Carl        [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

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