[LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file to the main file without doing a merge.just want to end up with the deleted individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to the husband and children that are now lacking a wife/mother. Would really appreciate any ideas how to do this. Regards, John Ellis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
I haven’t had to do this, but I can think of 2 approaches. First create a new database from your backup. Then if you have a lot of events and sources attached to the individual, do an export to another legacy database of just your one individual, then import that one individual database in to your current database and relink to family. If only a limited amount of basic data, just bring up your current database, create the entry for the individual (as part of the family), then in split screen mode open the corresponding individual record in the database created from the backup and copy/paste or retype the data items. From: John Ellis [mailto:jelli...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 4:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? Importance: High Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file to the main file without doing a merge…just want to end up with the deleted individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to the husband and children that are now lacking a wife/mother. Would really appreciate any ideas how to do this. Regards, John Ellis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
John, Use split-screen drag and drop. You'll have to make sure the old file has a different name than the newer file so you don't get the two mixed up. I'd append "old" to the file name. Open the file that you want to copy into go to View > Split Screen to open a second window and select to open the older file. If you don't rename it, Legacy won't recognize it as a different file and won't let you copy You can find details in the Help file in Legacy under Copy: Drag and drop. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:59 PM, John Ellis wrote: > Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main > Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file > to the main file without doing a merge…just want to end up with the deleted > individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to the > husband and children that are now lacking a wife/mother. > > Would really appreciate any ideas how to do this. > > Regards, John Ellis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
I hope I am understanding your question correctly. How about using the Split Screen to drag the person from file to file? Michele Technical Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: John Ellis [mailto:jelli...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 5:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? Importance: High Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file to the main file without doing a merge…just want to end up with the deleted individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to the husband and children that are now lacking a wife/mother. Would really appreciate any ideas how to do this. Regards, John Ellis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
Tried to drag and drop the person from one file to the other during Split Screen and couldn’t get it to work in either Family or Index views. What specifically do I have to do to perform a drag and drop? From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 6:19 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? I hope I am understanding your question correctly. How about using the Split Screen to drag the person from file to file? Michele Technical Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com> mich...@legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com From: John Ellis [mailto:jelli...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 5:00 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? Importance: High Am working with Legacy8. Accidentally deleted an individual from my main Legacy file. I want to copy that individual from a fairly old Legacy8 file to the main file without doing a merge…just want to end up with the deleted individual back in the index list in the main file so I can link her to the husband and children that are now lacking a wife/mother. Would really appreciate any ideas how to do this. Regards, John Ellis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
On 06/12/2013 21:45, John Ellis wrote: > Tried to drag and drop the person from one file to the other during > Split Screen and couldn’t get it to work in either Family or Index > views. What specifically do I have to do to perform a drag and drop? "Couldn't get it work" is a bit vague. Please tell us exactly what you did and exactly what happened, and if you got an error message what was it? -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
Finally got it to work. Found out drag and drop won't work in Family or Index display...only in Pedigree display. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 2:59 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file? On 06/12/2013 21:45, John Ellis wrote: > Tried to drag and drop the person from one file to the other during > Split Screen and couldn’t get it to work in either Family or Index > views. What specifically do I have to do to perform a drag and drop? "Couldn't get it work" is a bit vague. Please tell us exactly what you did and exactly what happened, and if you got an error message what was it? -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
On 06/12/2013 23:59, John Ellis wrote: > Finally got it to work. Found out drag and drop won't work in Family > or Index display...only in Pedigree display. How very odd! According to Help it will only work in Family or Pedigree view so I just tried it and was able to copy someone from Family View in one file to Family View in the other. It would have been nice if the person copied, dropped into the Children area below a Husband and Wife, had been received as the couple's child rather than as an unlinked individual! -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] How to copy an individual from one Legacy file to another Legacy file?
On 2013/12/07 12:17, Jenny M Benson wrote: > It would have been nice if the person copied, dropped into the Children > area below a Husband and Wife, had been received as the couple's child > rather than as an unlinked individual! Then wouldn't that have been a 'grafting' operation rather than a copy? :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
