Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-05 Thread Marilyn Clark
aughton wrote: > From: Peter Haughton > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you > To: "Legacy User Group" > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:30 PM > >> Virginia Dunham wrote: > >> Having done that myself...I now open up > "duplicate&quo

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Haughton
>> Virginia Dunham wrote: >> Having done that myself...I now open up "duplicate" or older "editions" of >> a >> family screen in the "split screen". This way I know that one is old and >> one >> is new. >> >That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have >tended to avoid s

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Brian/Support
Jenny, There is a setting that will have Legacy always start up using the same file. Go to Options > Customize > General In the starting family file select option 3, use the down arrow beside the box to find and select the file you want Legacy to start with. Then when you start a new session

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Gene Young
Jenny M Benson wrote: Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up "duplicate" or older "editions" of a family screen in the "split screen". This way I know that one is old and one is new. That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avo

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Virginia Dunham wrote: > Having done that myself...I now open up "duplicate" or older "editions" of > a > family screen in the "split screen". This way I know that one is old and > one > is new. > That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avoid split scree

RE: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Jack Earnshaw wrote: > Jenny > > You can locate the people you updated by using the search function, > searching for "added date" and/or "modified date" - setting the search to > something like "after" the day before you did the changes in the wrong > file. Thanks Jack, but I have no problem in k

RE: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jack Earnshaw
rom: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: 04 September 2009 10:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you Or to put it another way, learn by my mistake! I have been busy converting all my Basic

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Virginia Dunham
Having done that myself...I now open up "duplicate" or older "editions" of a family screen in the "split screen". This way I know that one is old and one is new. Virginia. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread RUNION ROBERT
After a similar problem of my own making with several months about 300 manhours (to be PC - 'people hours'?) of data re-working , I now try to maintain at least 2 backup copies and a master file. I save them on-site and off-site - by using the 'Save Family file as...' to 'file.fdb', 'file

[LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Or to put it another way, learn by my mistake! I have been busy converting all my Basic System sources to SourceWriter (big job!) and am currently working on the 1871 Censuses, at the same time taking the opportunity to change the way I record the Census information. Having recently made con