Jens, I also use PGV for all of my data entry the same as you and, yes, Legacy has problems importing Gedcoms produced by PGV and others. I have worked on several occasions with Brian at Support working through the problems. The main problem appeared to be that Legacy was not parsing the Gedcom properly. It was making false assumptions from the order of the tags in the Gedcom and sometimes missing the next 0 tag record. Thus causing the missing links.
I thought that most of the major problems had been fixed as I haven't had any major troubles, like yours, with my latest build (V7.4.0.6). Legacy still incorrectly parses tags level 2 OBJE tags when there are multiple 2 level OBJE tags, it recognises only the first 2 OBJE and not any others. Legacy skips the rest. It also does not properly parse within 0 level OBJE objects. For example, Legacy creates an error for any level 1 NOTE tag. For example, this portion of a Gedcom produces an error for the 1 NOTE tag within Legacy: 0 @M37@ OBJE 1 FILE media/Weddings/James-Absalom.jpg 2 FORM jpg 3 TYPE photo 2 TITL James-Absalom 1 NOTE Marriage of Richard JAMES xxxxxxxxx. As a trial, I would edit an instance of one of your errors within your Gedcom so that the 1 HUSB and 1 WIFE and any 1 CHIL tags immediately follow the 0 FAM tag. See if that makes any difference. Email me privately if you would like further assistance. Or let Brian at support know your problems. Stuart Gregory On 9 March 2010 14:25, Jens Kettwig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ron, > > probably you're right. It may have something to do with PhpGedView, but I'd > be interested in sharing this with someone with similar problems. For me > it's a pity not to be able to use Legacy in combination with PGV anymore. > For many reasons I won't give up PGV though, since collaboration is far too > important for me, especially since the major parts of the family are divided > between the USA and Germany. > > Thanks for your repsonse though! > > Cheers, > Jens > > 2010/3/9 Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> >> >> Jens, >> >> Just out of interest, as I have never used PHPGedView I don't know the >> answer, how do you know that it is Legacy which has changed? To the best >> of >> my knowledge there has not been any significant changes to the way the >> Legacy import works for years. Since it seems to have been rather a long >> time since you used Legacy's GEDCOM import might it not be that PHPGedView >> has added customised GEDCOM tags or similar? Have you looked at the GEDCOM >> file in Notepad to see what is going on? >> >> I do know that for years, importing a GEDCOM from FTM has been a pain - >> just >> see this list over the past year. >> >> Ron Ferguson >> _____________________________________________________ >> >> Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: >> http://www.fergys.co.uk >> Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw >> http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ >> For The Fergusons of N.W. England >> http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ >> ____________________________________________________ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Jens Kettwig >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: 08 March 2010 18:47 >> Subject: [LegacyUG] PhpGedView and Legacy >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I used to work with Legacy a lot a few years back. Then I completely >> stopped >> using it due to my switch to PhpGedView, which I have installed on my >> website and which I enjoy using, because it makes collaboration so simple. >> Legacy on the other hand, is far more convenient at entering data, >> checking >> problems, merging files, etc, etc. >> >> Earlier I had no problem at all reimporting GEDCOM produced by PhpGedView. >> This week I purchased Legacy and tried to import my latest GEDCOM and it >> does not seem to work at all. OK, I get a long list of errors (which did >> not >> surprise me, since Gedcom versions tend to vary quite a bit). Most >> disturbingly, family connections are broken. e.g. my parents don't show up >> as my parents anymore, some generations back also my wife has ancestors >> "missig". Mind you, the people are still in the file, but don't show up as >> being connected. >> >> I then imported the same Gedcom into PAF 5 and surprise, surprise: no >> problem at all! Everything just shows up as it should. I could also import >> the data from the generated PAF-file into Legacy without a problem. >> >> My question: is this a known bug in Legacy or is there anything that can >> be >> done about it? I still want to use my online-database, but intend to >> switch >> back to Legacy every once in a while to do the more difficult jobs on my >> computer and would like to export the changes back into PhpGedView. I will >> definitely not take the additional step with PAF all the time. >> >> Any suggestions from someone in this list? >> >> Thanks, >> Jens >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> > > > > 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 > -- Stuart Perth Western Australia 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
