I have to agree with Ruth's frustration here, although I'm not quite ready to leave the program just yet.
Back in August I reported a number of bugs in the formatting of GEDCOM files exported from Legacy. Not a single one was fixed in the September update, which I was okay with because it came out not too long after those bugs were reported. Now we've had nearly five months between updates and every one of these seemingly simple-to-correct bugs are still in the latest release, despite Brian's assurance to me back in August that the problems were all added to their internal bug tracking system. These are not complicated bugs to resolve, and shouldn't take a programmer more than a few minutes fix each one! They are primarily source formatting errors -- typos, stray characters, missing spaces in source names, and the like. I can correct all of them by manually editing the exported file in a text editor, but like Ruth says this should not be necessary for the end user to do, and the programmers should be well aware of these issues and how to fix them. While I understand Legacy's urgent desire to "keep up with the Joneses" in terms of pushing out the nFS search functionality that competitor products are now featuring, they really need to deal with some of these other bugs too. There are a lot of users who don't particularly care about the added nFS functionality, but really need a fully functional product for other purposes. -Steve Voght On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Ruth Nerud <[email protected]> wrote: > I would rather have had all the bugs fixed in the newest build of Legacy > before adding a new feature like nFS that isn't available to everyone. I'm > so frustrated trying to get reports out of Legacy that, best software out > there or not, I'm ready to change to something that doesn't have all the > bells and whistles of Legacy but does have the capability of a report I > don't have to spend hours editing before sending out to family and friends. > In Generations and Family Tree Maker, what I asked for in a report, I got. > Not so with Legacy. > > Ruth Nerud > [email protected] 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
