Paula,
I agree with you. When Source Writer came out I switched to it but did not
convert my Basic Sources to SW.
If I wished to go back to Basic I would leave the SW ones as they are and just
use Basic for the new ones.
Ron Ferguson
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.
s list... they didn't write a
conversion program to go from Basic to SourceWriter. (not that I think it was
possible to do that, just saying)
--Paula
From: singhals
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 5:58 PM
Subject: Re:
Oh, it can. It's just labor-intensive and time-consuming.
GED does it faster and saves you irritation.
Cheryl
Pat Hickin wrote:
> I too would like to convert all my SW sources to Basic
> without going the .gedcom route. If it can be done via
> .gedcom why can't it be done without .gedcom?
>
>
The only way to convert from SourceWriter to Basic globally all at once is
through a gedcom.
There's no way to convert from Basic to SourceWriter without doing each
source manually. Instructions are at
<
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00412/14/Tips-and-How-Tos/Where-is-the-Source
I too would like to convert all my SW sources to Basic without going the
.gedcom route. If it can be done via .gedcom why can't it be done without
.gedcom?
I'd be happy if it would just take the "Source List Name," and the
"Recorded Date" and lump everything else together in Publication Facts.
Th
I'm sorry - got that backwards! Creating a gedcom is the only way. You
won't lose media links.
The only thing that you "lose" with gedcom is the SourceWriter format
(which you want) as well as History List and the Dates Added/Modified will
all show the date you imported the gedcom and that the da
I want to convert from SourceWriter to Basic Not Basic to SourceWriter.
Gedcom already does it globally. There must be a way we can too.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Sherry/Support
wrote:
> There's no way to do a conversion to SourceWriter from Basic sources,
> other than manually.
>
>
There's no way to do a conversion to SourceWriter from Basic sources, other
than manually.
You can find some help with the conversion in our Knowledge Base at <
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00412/14/Tips-and-How-Tos/Where-is-the-Source-Conversion-tool.html
>
Sincerely,
Sherry
I have a mixture of Basic and Sourcewriter sources. Since gedcom-ing SW
sources results in them being converted to Basic sources, Is there a way
to do a global conversion of all my SW sources to Basic sources without
having to gedcom the whole file and risk losing media and other info that
is inc
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