Well, of course, I meant to do a "whole word" search, because you are right, changing something else than the UID tags would probably not have a good result. Even more reason to let Legacy handle it, as I said originally.
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 5:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Exchange with Ancestry.com Round 2 On 2010/01/13 00:13, Robert Mann set forth the following: > As I said before, Legacy can take care of things if you just point the way > with the "remapping" tool. However, I would bet that you could do a global > search and replace with any text editor on the Ancestry.com GEDCOM file to > change "UID" to "_UID" and that Legacy would then read the file OK. I have > compared the Legacy and Ancestry files side by side and the DATA beside the > UID tags is the same in both files. And if the word GUIDE occurs in the file? Be careful making blanket changes like those you're proposing here. They may have unexpected and unintended consequences :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
