Re: [LegacyUG] How to report differences in multi family files
Thank you Cathy I will first try with the Intellishare merge you suggested. Creating a new family file & merging all from backups (yes they did all originate from the same family file). If plan B is needed, I will try the word compare option Thanks Andre From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 18:41 To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to report differences in multi family files I don't know of anything that compares genealogy files and shows differences. The comparison programs/features show similariites rather than differences - eg the Compare Two files tool in Legacy on the Tools Ribbon tab shows potential duplicates between the files. If you created reports from the files in RTF format you could compare those in Word and that should show the differences. It's not something I've done for a long time but in Word you are wanting Review > Compare. You'd probably need multiple book reports to cover everyone in your files. If you think you may have updated an older file in error, you can find the people that may have been updated by doing a search for modified date using after the day before the date you may have started adding data in the wrong file. They can then be tagged and exported. If these files all originated from the same Legacy file I guess you could back them all up and then import them all into a new family file and use Intellishare merge but that may give you a huge merge task if most of the people have been updated. Once you've sorted this out make sure you only keep one working file and backup zips of older files. Cathy Andjen wrote: I have several “older” family files which I would like to delete. There is a chance that they may have some data not in my current family master . Is there a way to compare 2 family files & show _only_ differences? This would return a small amount of data which I could then transfer. Thank you Andre -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] How to report differences in multi family files
I don't know of anything that compares genealogy files and shows differences. The comparison programs/features show similariites rather than differences - eg the Compare Two files tool in Legacy on the Tools Ribbon tab shows potential duplicates between the files. If you created reports from the files in RTF format you could compare those in Word and that should show the differences. It's not something I've done for a long time but in Word you are wanting Review > Compare. You'd probably need multiple book reports to cover everyone in your files. If you think you may have updated an older file in error, you can find the people that may have been updated by doing a search for modified date using after the day before the date you may have started adding data in the wrong file. They can then be tagged and exported. If these files all originated from the same Legacy file I guess you could back them all up and then import them all into a new family file and use Intellishare merge but that may give you a huge merge task if most of the people have been updated. Once you've sorted this out make sure you only keep one working file and backup zips of older files. Cathy Andjen wrote: I have several “older” family files which I would like to delete. There is a chance that they may have some data not in my current family master . Is there a way to compare 2 family files & show _only_ differences? This would return a small amount of data which I could then transfer. Thank you Andre -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] How to report differences in multi family files
I have several "older" family files which I would like to delete. There is a chance that they may have some data not in my current family master . Is there a way to compare 2 family files & show only differences? This would return a small amount of data which I could then transfer. Thank you Andre -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Report for Notes
Debbie, First search for everyone who has something in their General Notes Search > Find > Detailed Search Tab Look for individuals where Notes General NOT Equal to blank leave what to look for empty From the Search list you can use options > Print to create a custom report which includes the General Notes You can include identifying information like name, RIN, Dates etc to identify to whom the notes belong. This will create a custom report for everyone who has something in their notes. You could also use the search list to tag everyone with notes, add a Hashtag or create Family Group or Individual Chart reports for these individuals. Brian Kelly On 07-Jan.-21 9:22 a.m., Debbie Medeiros wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if you can run a report with the information that is in all the Notes General section? I want to see how I have put the notes in for everyone in the database, so I can be consistent. I also want to run a report with the media gallery under Display Picture to find how I put in the Caption, Date and Description information. Thank you for any help you can provide. Debbie -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
Re: [LegacyUG] Report for Notes
I really appreciate this question and answer. This is also one of my goals. On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 9:23 AM Debbie Medeiros wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know if you can run a report with the information that is in > all the Notes General section? I want to see how I have put the notes in > for everyone in the database, so I can be consistent. > I also want to run a report with the media gallery under Display Picture > to find how I put in the Caption, Date and Description information. > > Thank you for any help you can provide. > Debbie > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
[LegacyUG] Report for Notes
Hi, Does anyone know if you can run a report with the information that is in all the Notes General section? I want to see how I have put the notes in for everyone in the database, so I can be consistent. I also want to run a report with the media gallery under Display Picture to find how I put in the Caption, Date and Description information. Thank you for any help you can provide. Debbie -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
