Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread jmglover
Hello again everyone, I'm sorry to have had to take a couple of day's break from this thread, and I thank you all for your help and patience. Original query was snip Error opening database When I answered 'yes' to the query if I wanted to try again, up came the words 'could not lock

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread jmglover
Hi Jack and Elizabeth, As suggested by you both:- snip Maybe the best thing to do is copy all the files onto your hard drive and then copy them to a new flash drive. and snip Is it possible to move the files from the Flash Drive and open them from her hard drive? That's what I'll

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Mike Fry
jmglover wrote: This is the message I get when I try to save the Legacy file to Flash drive K, which is the one I've been having trouble with since the update of Legacy. Error saving Family File as: K:\glover main one 1-01-2009. Error 67: Too many files Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? There

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Colin Liddell
- Original Message - From: Mike Fry To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database--could not lock fileflash drive jmglover wrote: This is the message I get when I try to save the Legacy file

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Colin Liddell
- Original Message - From: Hope Bagot Bees To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:59 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another I am trying to compare two different databases, using the split screen. When I move from one screen to

[LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Hope Bagot Bees
I am trying to compare two different databases, using the split screen. When I move from one screen to the other I keep getting the following message You cannot copy to/from the same family file. Why does it say the same family file? It is a different file, composed yesterday, under a

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:27:20 +1000, jmglover jmglo...@tpg.com.au wrote: This is the message I get when I try to save the Legacy file to Flash drive K, which is the one I've been having trouble with since the update of Legacy. Error saving Family File as: K:\glover main one 1-01-2009. Error 67:

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Evert van Dijken
You probably have all the files in the root K:, put some of the files on the flash drives in folders and try again. For Legacy make a folder K:\Legacy and backup to theat folder. Evert 2009/1/1 jmglover jmglo...@tpg.com.au: Hello again everyone, I'm sorry to have had to take a couple of

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Guido Leeten
Maybe first reformat the flash-drive before reusing it, Guido jmglover schreef: Hi Jack and Elizabeth, As suggested by you both:- snip Maybe the best thing to do is copy all the files onto your hard drive and then copy them to a new flash drive. and snip Is it possible to move the

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
Good point. For FAT 16 there is a limit of 512 files in the root directory. On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:28:47 +0100, Evert van Dijken evandij...@gmail.com wrote: You probably have all the files in the root K:, put some of the files on the flash drives in folders and try again. For Legacy make a folder

[LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Sheri Harris
Don't know if this applies or not, or even if there is a connection here, but about a couple of weeks ago I began to have problems with printing, flash drive errors, and malfunction errors for anything connected to my USB ports. It started right after a automatic update of Windows XP and since

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Hope Bagot Bees
No, definitely completely different files. Colin Liddell wrote: Check that you actually have to two different files in the window, it sounds to me as though you have the same file in each window. I am trying to compare two different databases, using the split screen. When I move from one

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Carl Cox
I am trying to compare two different databases, using the split screen. When I move from one screen to the other I keep getting the following message You cannot copy to/from the same family file. On Split Screen, the 'working' file is denoted by strong blue top line, while the inactive file is

RE: [LegacyUG] How to convert Family Tree to Legacy

2009-01-01 Thread Richard and Evita Piepho
Let me put in my 2 cents worth As I advise in my classthere is a way to gedcom the data in ...but I myself am doing it manually... now I have 18,000 names to move from FTM to Legacy and it will take me a year to finish this move but it is well worth it because I have in FTM some very

Re: [LegacyUG] need help getting rid of duplicates

2009-01-01 Thread Brian/Support
LouAnn, Legacy has some searches that will help you with this problem. What you are seeing are multiple links between some people either as children of the same couple or as multiple marriages between the same people. Go To Search Find Miscellaneous Searches There you can search for people

Re: [LegacyUG] Error opening database------could not lock file----flash drive

2009-01-01 Thread Jenny M Benson
Sheri Harris wrote Don't know if this applies or not, or even if there is a connection here, but about a couple of weeks ago I began to have problems with printing, flash drive errors, and malfunction errors for anything connected to my USB ports. It started right after a automatic update of

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home Tab Problem

2009-01-01 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
But that is not how Americans (IMHO) do it. We do the months for the first year, and become one year old on the 365/366 date, and are called one year old from that date until the 730/731 day. So the program uses this plan. It might be a future fix that whichever language/dialect you use, also

Re: [LegacyUG] need help getting rid of duplicates

2009-01-01 Thread Corrigan
Thanks Brian. I will use that to see if I have found all the clones of people and marriages. I have unlinked all that I could find as I went through the people. Why do you think this happens? I have merged databases before and this didn t happen. LouAnn ---Original Message--- From:

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home Tab Problem

2009-01-01 Thread Corrigan
I don't seem to have this Legacy Home Tab that you are discussing. Is it an addition that came in a later version? I am using version 4. LouAnn ---Original Message--- From: Art Seddon Date: 1/1/2009 12:28:45 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home

RE: [LegacyUG] Date format question

2009-01-01 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
On a side issue, but related, for some dates in the 'double year date' era I put the date as appeared in the event description area, and my translation in the actual date area. (ex: 17th day 4th month 1732.) Rich in LA CA --- On Wed, 12/31/08, esh...@comcast.net esh...@comcast.net wrote:

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Brian/Support
Elizabeth, I have tested this and have added it as a problem in our problem reporting system. You should not be getting that message box. Until it is fixed in an update to Legacy here are a couple of ways to avoid the message (Thanks Carl! for pointing out that using the title bar avoids

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home Tab Problem

2009-01-01 Thread Sherry/Support
LouAnn, The Legacy Home tab was introduced in Legacy v6. It includes a browser, links to various pages on our website, statistics and To-Do and Birthday, Anniversary and Death reminders. Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home Tab Problem

2009-01-01 Thread Mike Fry
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: But that is not how Americans (IMHO) do it. We do the months for the first year, and become one year old on the 365/366 date, and are called one year old from that date until the 730/731 day. So the program uses this plan. It might be a future fix that whichever

Re: [LegacyUG] Date format question

2009-01-01 Thread Mike Fry
RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote: On a side issue, but related, for some dates in the 'double year date' era I put the date as appeared in the event description area, and my translation in the actual date area. (ex: 17th day 4th month 1732.) Ahem! That's not a date that requires double-dating :-) For

RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Home Tab Problem

2009-01-01 Thread eshown
If your birthday was 1 jan 1900 then on 1 jan 1901 you would have entered your 2nd year. But on 1 Jan 1901 you would celebrate your first birthday and be considered one year old until your second birthday on 1 Jan 1902. This is a cultural thing, and it will be incorrect for 1/2 the world, even

[LegacyUG] sourcing a War Department Certificate

2009-01-01 Thread Sheri Harris
I have a certificate from the US War Department, Army Service Forces, Corps of Engineers regarding a family member, who was most likely a civilian, participating in the Manhattan District, Tennessee Eastman Corporation, production of the Atomic Bomb in WWII. It's dated 1945. Would you show this

RE: [LegacyUG] sourcing a War Department Certificate

2009-01-01 Thread eshown
I have a certificate from the US War Department, Army Service Forces, Corps of Engineers regarding a family member, who was most likely a civilian, participating in the Manhattan District, Tennessee Eastman Corporation, production of the Atomic Bomb in WWII. It's dated 1945. Would you show this

Re: [LegacyUG] Merging basic sources into sourcewriter

2009-01-01 Thread Chick Lewis
Thanks, Kristen and Elizabeth, That makes sense Lew On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote: Lew: That line must have been added automatically and, as Elizabeth said, probably has something to do with those can't post messages we were getting from the list.

Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another

2009-01-01 Thread Colin Liddell
OK it was worth an ask.{;-) Colin. - Original Message - From: Hope Bagot Bees To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:05 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying from one file to another No, definitely completely different files. Colin Liddell wrote: