RE: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh!
I’m sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup. Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My Documents…. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other program on the C: drive. That’s the target of any virus so I move data to a different drive. OK, so I’m paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive designation. And on my next forced backup, I made sure I changed the location. Guess I was too quick to click the mouse for the past month and never noticed the location had changed. I’ll watch this on the next update to see if it happens again. Brian in CA From: Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:21 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection). Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA From: Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup
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Brian, you bring up an excellent point with the auto backups! That has happened to me and I honestly don't know if I've lost any data because of it or not. I don't even know how long I just clicked to go forward and realized months later that it had been backing up to the wrong place. I just happened to glance at it and realized it was wrong. I backup to dropbox BTW and then copy that to an external drive (or two) every month or two. Well, now I do :-) I hope your comment causes some others to glance at the backup location every time just to be safe. Kathy On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I’m sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup. Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My Documents…. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other program on the C: drive. That’s the target of any virus so I move data to a different drive. OK, so I’m paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive designation. And on my next forced backup, I made sure I changed the location. Guess I was too quick to click the mouse for the past month and never noticed the location had changed. I’ll watch this on the next update to see if it happens again. Brian in CA *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:21 AM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection). Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names
Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh!
Several weeks ago I had the exact 'Oh-oh! event when over 5,000 people who were not previously linked to a location (In the Master Location List) was suddenly linked - seems the events were pretty much the way you described them, Brian. I just sat and looked at the screen for about 10 minutes - I was too shocked to move! That was when I looked into the Legacy e-mail group to see if it had happened before. By the time I got signed up, able to access and search entires I was so frustrated that I just restored my most recent back-up, from the night before, and in the process lost several hours of editing. As you commented maybe just one of those "one-in-a-million" chances. Well, mine makes it a 2 in a million. After that happened, I have set a better routine to back-up alternating between 2 files every hour or so, and when I am ready to end for the day I back-up to the oldest file and another file on a (mirrored) drive on my network. Currently, I am cleaning up data, locations, linked photos, and changing the way I enter burial information. Needless to say - having over 5000 profiles to suddenly be linked to a location that had nothing to do with their live is, well, let me just say I was not a happy camper, ill is a better description! But, it did get me joined up to this users group where I have gained a lot of good, helpful tools. Thanks everybody. Elizabeth Born in Alabama, still residing in illinois On 2/19/2015 1:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: I’m sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup.  Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My Documents…. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other program on the C: drive. That’s the target of any virus so I move data to a different drive. OK, so I’m paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive designation. And on my next forced backup, I made sure I changed the location. Guess I was too quick to click the mouse for the past month and never noticed the location had changed. I’ll watch this on the next update to see if it happens again.  Brian in CA   From: Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:21 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh!  Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection).  Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland  On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the app
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Here are some things that may help stop data corruption and data loss: . Always do Check/Repair before and after updating/upgrading the Legacy program; before and after importing one file into another; before and after merging duplicate persons, etc. . Use an uninterruptable power supply or APC to protect your computer from sudden power loss and to filter out power surges/fluctuations. . Don't leave Legacy open and unattended for prolonged periods. Shut it down if you are going to bed or will be away for more than a few minutes. A family file can be corrupted if Legacy is open when an automatic Windows update with reboot happens. . Make sure that you always work in the same family file. Some users have more than one family file with the exact same name, but saved in different locations. For example, if they have been adding new people to their family file called MyGenealogy.fdb saved in Documents for several weeks, and then inadvertently open an old version MyGenealogy.fdb saved in the Legacy folder they conclude that Legacy has lost data. . Restoring a family file from an old backup can be a problem. If you do not backup frequently and need to restore your family file, you will get an older version of your file with fewer people. . Too many backups can be confusing. When you restore from a backup copy, select the one with the most recent date. . Run ScanDisk / Disk Defragmenter regularly on your computer's hard drive and replace bad drives. . Don't push the 2 GB size limitation for a family file. As a file approaches the 2 GB limit it becomes susceptible to errors that can't be fixed. . Back up your family file on a regular basis, especially before any major file operations like importing and merging records, or using any tools like Check/Repair, Advanced Deleting, Advanced Sourcing or Search and Replace which make global changes to your family file. Jim Legacy Technical Support Original Message From: Elizabeth Verchio borninalabam...@everchio.us Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Several weeks ago I had the exact 'Oh-oh! event when over 5,000 people who were not previously linked to a location (In the Master Location List) was suddenly linked - seems the events were pretty much the way you described them, Brian. I just sat and looked at the screen for about 10 minutes - I was too shocked to move! That was when I looked into the Legacy e-mail group to see if it had happened before. By the time I got signed up, able to access and search entires I was so frustrated that I just restored my most recent back-up, from the night before, and in the process lost several hours of editing.ÂAs you commented maybe just one of those one-in-a-million chances. Well, mine makes it a 2 in a million. After that happened, I have set a better routine to back-up alternating between 2 files every hour or so, and when I am ready to end for the day I back-up to the oldest file and another file on aÂ(mirrored) drive on my network. Currently, I am cleaning up data, locations, linked photos, and changing the way I enter burial information. Needless to say - having over 5000 profiles to suddenly be linked to a location that had nothing to do with their live is, well, let me just say I was not a happy camper, ill is a better description! But, it did get me joined up to this users group where I have gained a lot of good, helpful tools. Thanks everybody. Elizabeth Born in Alabama, still residing in illinois On 2/19/2015 1:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Iâ?Tm sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup.  Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My Documentsâ?¦. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other program on the C: drive. Thatâ?Ts the target of any virus so I move data to a different drive. OK, so Iâ?Tm paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive
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Great advice Jim! I run a File Check repair Every time I use Legacy I create a backup at least once every day and if I have spent an hour or more adding info, I will make a backup after that. (Every month I deleted old backups and that folder usually has about 50 to delete every month) DO NOT leave legacy open if you are not going to work on it. Be conscious of any use of or ' that could foul up records during an import or export (the fewer quotes I have, the fewer problems occur with data going in and out) I read these stories here of Data : magically being added or removed I would bet all my research that it's all operator error. Thanks Jay On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Jim Terry/Support jimte...@legacyusers.com wrote: Here are some things that may help stop data corruption and data loss: . Always do Check/Repair before and after updating/upgrading the Legacy program; before and after importing one file into another; before and after merging duplicate persons, etc. . Use an uninterruptable power supply or APC to protect your computer from sudden power loss and to filter out power surges/fluctuations. . Don't leave Legacy open and unattended for prolonged periods. Shut it down if you are going to bed or will be away for more than a few minutes. A family file can be corrupted if Legacy is open when an automatic Windows update with reboot happens. . Make sure that you always work in the same family file. Some users have more than one family file with the exact same name, but saved in different locations. For example, if they have been adding new people to their family file called MyGenealogy.fdb saved in Documents for several weeks, and then inadvertently open an old version MyGenealogy.fdb saved in the Legacy folder they conclude that Legacy has lost data. . Restoring a family file from an old backup can be a problem. If you do not backup frequently and need to restore your family file, you will get an older version of your file with fewer people. . Too many backups can be confusing. When you restore from a backup copy, select the one with the most recent date. . Run ScanDisk / Disk Defragmenter regularly on your computer's hard drive and replace bad drives. . Don't push the 2 GB size limitation for a family file. As a file approaches the 2 GB limit it becomes susceptible to errors that can't be fixed. . Back up your family file on a regular basis, especially before any major file operations like importing and merging records, or using any tools like Check/Repair, Advanced Deleting, Advanced Sourcing or Search and Replace which make global changes to your family file. Jim Legacy Technical Support Original Message From: Elizabeth Verchio borninalabam...@everchio.us Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Several weeks ago I had the exact 'Oh-oh! event when over 5,000 people who were not previously linked to a location (In the Master Location List) was suddenly linked - seems the events were pretty much the way you described them, Brian. I just sat and looked at the screen for about 10 minutes - I was too shocked to move! That was when I looked into the Legacy e-mail group to see if it had happened before. By the time I got signed up, able to access and search entires I was so frustrated that I just restored my most recent back-up, from the night before, and in the process lost several hours of editing.ÂAs you commented maybe just one of those one-in-a-million chances. Well, mine makes it a 2 in a million. After that happened, I have set a better routine to back-up alternating between 2 files every hour or so, and when I am ready to end for the day I back-up to the oldest file and another file on a (mirrored) drive on my network. Currently, I am cleaning up data, locations, linked photos, and changing the way I enter burial information. Needless to say - having over 5000 profiles to suddenly be linked to a location that had nothing to do with their live is, well, let me just say I was not a happy camper, ill is a better description! But, it did get me joined up to this users group where I have gained a lot of good, helpful tools. Thanks everybody. Elizabeth Born in Alabama, still residing in illinois On 2/19/2015 1:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Iâ?Tm sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup.  Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from
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Is there a way to open the in messed up file side by side to go through only the individuals where changes had been made over those two days? Like create a report on recently edited individuals? Or are you comfortable remembering which ones you worked on? Is there a way to see only those individuals if you wanted to?ThT would certainly help me from time to time. :-) As for my duplicate marriages - it happened after a merge process.I probably did something wrong but never tried to figure out what that was. Just wanted to fix it. And I did get it done. It was just under 1000 marriages. Now if it had been 5000 I may have made a different choice Kathy On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','murke...@gmail.com');] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kmeyer2...@gmail.com'); wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','br...@the-lightfoots.com'); wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
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Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection). Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
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Also Kathy and Brian are what I consider power users (always helpful answering questions and know Legacy quite well) and have been using Legacy for awhile. My concern is that if this type of things happens to you two, what are the chances others (including me) might also have this happen (and perhaps not even notice it until many days or weeks have passed). Really want those popups or reminders that what we have done might have an affect we did not contemplate (big fan of warnings). Thanks Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to open the in messed up file side by side to go through only the individuals where changes had been made over those two days? Like create a report on recently edited individuals? Or are you comfortable remembering which ones you worked on? Is there a way to see only those individuals if you wanted to?ThT would certainly help me from time to time. :-) As for my duplicate marriages - it happened after a merge process.I probably did something wrong but never tried to figure out what that was. Just wanted to fix it. And I did get it done. It was just under 1000 marriages. Now if it had been 5000 I may have made a different choice Kathy On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA *From:* Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http
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This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA From: Tessa Keough [mailto:murke...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http
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Brian, Most of the time and for most of our users, leaving Legacy on when a Windows update happens is never a problem, but this coming April I will have worked for Millennia Corp. 16 years and I can remember one or two users in the past who lost a family file this way. Jim Legacy Support Original Message From: Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:11 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Jim, thanks for putting all those tips together in one place. Very good information for everybody to remember. In my own case, I am guilty of running Legacy 24/7 on a single dedicated computer. I never thought about the dreaded Windows Update. I think I need to learn to Exit Legacy at night; besides that creates an auto-backup in the process. Old habits are tough one to break. And now, because someone else complained of a similar circumstance, this may not be as random an event as I thought. If the programmers want to look at my database, I've kept it but renamed it from Lightfoot.fdb to Lightfoot.fubar, 240 MBs. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support [mailto:jimte...@legacyusers.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:09 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Here are some things that may help stop data corruption and data loss: . Always do Check/Repair before and after updating/upgrading the Legacy program; before and after importing one file into another; before and after merging duplicate persons, etc. . Use an uninterruptable power supply or APC to protect your computer from sudden power loss and to filter out power surges/fluctuations. . Don't leave Legacy open and unattended for prolonged periods. Shut it down if you are going to bed or will be away for more than a few minutes. A family file can be corrupted if Legacy is open when an automatic Windows update with reboot happens. . Make sure that you always work in the same family file. Some users have more than one family file with the exact same name, but saved in different locations. For example, if they have been adding new people to their family file called MyGenealogy.fdb saved in Documents for several weeks, and then inadvertently open an old version MyGenealogy.fdb saved in the Legacy folder they conclude that Legacy has lost data. . Restoring a family file from an old backup can be a problem. If you do not backup frequently and need to restore your family file, you will get an older version of your file with fewer people. . Too many backups can be confusing. When you restore from a backup copy, select the one with the most recent date. . Run ScanDisk / Disk Defragmenter regularly on your computer's hard drive and replace bad drives. . Don't push the 2 GB size limitation for a family file. As a file approaches the 2 GB limit it becomes susceptible to errors that can't be fixed. . Back up your family file on a regular basis, especially before any major file operations like importing and merging records, or using any tools like Check/Repair, Advanced Deleting, Advanced Sourcing or Search and Replace which make global changes to your family file. Jim Legacy Technical Support Original Message From: Elizabeth Verchio borninalabam...@everchio.us Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Several weeks ago I had the exact 'Oh-oh! event when over 5,000 people who were not previously linked to a location (In the Master Location List) was suddenly linked - seems the events were pretty much the way you described them, Brian. I just sat and looked at the screen for about 10 minutes - I was too shocked to move! That was when I looked into the Legacy e-mail group to see if it had happened before. By the time I got signed up, able to access and search entires I was so frustrated that I just restored my most recent back-up, from the night before, and in the process lost several hours of editing.ÂAs you commented maybe just one of those one-in-a-million chances. Well, mine makes it a 2 in a million. After that happened, I have set a better routine to back-up alternating between 2 files every hour or so, and when I am ready to end for the day I back-up to the oldest file and another file on a (mirrored) drive on my network. Currently, I am cleaning up data, locations, linked photos, and changing the way I enter burial information. Needless to say - having over 5000 profiles to suddenly be linked to a location that had nothing to do with their live is, well, let me just say I was not a happy camper, ill is a better description! But, it did get me
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On 19/02/2015 22:09, Jim Terry/Support wrote: A family file can be corrupted if Legacy is open when an automatic Windows update with reboot happens. I can confirm that happens :( I don't have Windows update without my say so, all it can do is tell me there are updates, but I have had my Legacy file corrupted when Windows crashed when the program was open. Very frustrating! -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
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Jim, thanks for putting all those tips together in one place. Very good information for everybody to remember. In my own case, I am guilty of running Legacy 24/7 on a single dedicated computer. I never thought about the dreaded Windows Update. I think I need to learn to Exit Legacy at night; besides that creates an auto-backup in the process. Old habits are tough one to break. And now, because someone else complained of a similar circumstance, this may not be as random an event as I thought. If the programmers want to look at my database, I've kept it but renamed it from Lightfoot.fdb to Lightfoot.fubar, 240 MBs. Brian in CA -Original Message- From: Jim Terry/Support [mailto:jimte...@legacyusers.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:09 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Here are some things that may help stop data corruption and data loss: . Always do Check/Repair before and after updating/upgrading the Legacy program; before and after importing one file into another; before and after merging duplicate persons, etc. . Use an uninterruptable power supply or APC to protect your computer from sudden power loss and to filter out power surges/fluctuations. . Don't leave Legacy open and unattended for prolonged periods. Shut it down if you are going to bed or will be away for more than a few minutes. A family file can be corrupted if Legacy is open when an automatic Windows update with reboot happens. . Make sure that you always work in the same family file. Some users have more than one family file with the exact same name, but saved in different locations. For example, if they have been adding new people to their family file called MyGenealogy.fdb saved in Documents for several weeks, and then inadvertently open an old version MyGenealogy.fdb saved in the Legacy folder they conclude that Legacy has lost data. . Restoring a family file from an old backup can be a problem. If you do not backup frequently and need to restore your family file, you will get an older version of your file with fewer people. . Too many backups can be confusing. When you restore from a backup copy, select the one with the most recent date. . Run ScanDisk / Disk Defragmenter regularly on your computer's hard drive and replace bad drives. . Don't push the 2 GB size limitation for a family file. As a file approaches the 2 GB limit it becomes susceptible to errors that can't be fixed. . Back up your family file on a regular basis, especially before any major file operations like importing and merging records, or using any tools like Check/Repair, Advanced Deleting, Advanced Sourcing or Search and Replace which make global changes to your family file. Jim Legacy Technical Support Original Message From: Elizabeth Verchio borninalabam...@everchio.us Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:02 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Several weeks ago I had the exact 'Oh-oh! event when over 5,000 people who were not previously linked to a location (In the Master Location List) was suddenly linked - seems the events were pretty much the way you described them, Brian. I just sat and looked at the screen for about 10 minutes - I was too shocked to move! That was when I looked into the Legacy e-mail group to see if it had happened before. By the time I got signed up, able to access and search entires I was so frustrated that I just restored my most recent back-up, from the night before, and in the process lost several hours of editing.ÂAs you commented maybe just one of those one-in-a-million chances. Well, mine makes it a 2 in a million. After that happened, I have set a better routine to back-up alternating between 2 files every hour or so, and when I am ready to end for the day I back-up to the oldest file and another file on aÂ(mirrored) drive on my network. Currently, I am cleaning up data, locations, linked photos, and changing the way I enter burial information. Needless to say - having over 5000 profiles to suddenly be linked to a location that had nothing to do with their live is, well, let me just say I was not a happy camper, ill is a better description! But, it did get me joined up to this users group where I have gained a lot of good, helpful tools. Thanks everybody. Elizabeth Born in Alabama, still residing in illinois On 2/19/2015 1:20 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Iâ?Tm sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent
[LegacyUG] Oh-oh!
I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that's when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location..something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don't know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
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S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
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Hi Brian, Sorry about this. I've seen this on a smaller scale but couldn't reproduce it. Your easiest way (unless this group is larger) would be to search on Modified Date and tag and export all those modified after the date of a backup that's OK. Then merge or use Split screen and copy and paste change details. If it is a larger group, again use Split Screen with one side using a backup that's OK and the other the one where the location has changed so that you don't have to research what the correct location is. Keep an eye on whether it was one location that was changed to the wrong one or a mix. I think the bug is something to do with merging locations and a wrong merge happens. Cathy Kathy Meyer wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. __ __ I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. __ __ I think I just take 2 aspirins. __ __ __ __ Brian in CA __ __ 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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] Oh-oh!
Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa *Tessa Keough* *Guild of One-Name Studies, **Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS* *Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+* *Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland * On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com wrote: S sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot br...@the-lightfoots.com wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
