There is no question in this post - just a heads up for other users
Sometime between my backup of 6/27 and 7/2, I discovered the town where my
great grandmother was born. Previously, only the state of Missouri was
known.
So, I merrily went to the birth location field where the state was
Jimquist wrote:
This is probably a horse on me, but it seems like there should have
been a warning from the program that changing this location will change
it for everybody using this location.
Jim
There is a warning.
When you select save the program responds with a dialog box which
Poor Jim,
As Gene says, Legacy does try and stop you from doing this. Perhaps
you've disabled the warning that is normally given. See Options--
Customise-- Other and press the button for turning the optional warning
messages on or off. That should tell you.
As for recovery. Well I'd reverse
to locations to
feel comfortable that I would get it right.
Thanks again, Poor Jim
- Original Message -
From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a new way to wreck your database
Poor Jim
Jimquist wrote:
Thanks Gene and Mike, But..
On the Individuals Information screen, if I click the inverted triangle
at the end of the location field, the master location list opens. Then,
if I click Edit... and enter additional information and try to Save - I
get the warning that this
Jim,
I was entering a problem report on this since I think Legacy should have
given you some warning that selecting a new location from the GEO Data
Base would change all the locations that used that place.
As I was going through your steps I found that there is an intermediate
screen
Re: [LegacyUG] a new way to wreck your database
Brian/Support
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:20:01 -0700
Jim,
I was entering a problem report on this since I think Legacy should
have given you some warning that selecting a new location from the GEO
Data Base would change all the locations that used
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