Hi Sonia
Fear not, you have not lost anything. What you have done is to compact your file. You must have had a lot of free space in the original file. For example, when individuals are deleted in Legacy and many other databases, a gap or a blank record where the individual’s information used to be stored is left behind. Delete 10 individuals and you leave behind 10 gaps which take up space as most databases do not automatically fill them in when adding new information. Gaps can also be caused by other issues as well. So programs like legacy have a maintenance feature that removes all the spaces by compacting the file. This doesn’t remove data or information, but makes the file size smaller and that is what has happened. No need to worry. Regards Garry Howard From: Sonia Putney [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2011 2:59 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Repairing Legacy file I have Repaired my Legacy file and it went from a 101 mg file to a 77mg file. I am really concerned. There were only 4 small errors in it which I fixed. Will I have lost a lot of data in my file?? I imported from a Gedcom made in FTM2009. I have the deluxe Legacy 7.4 and am on Vista. There were 53,000 people in my database. Any help would be appreciated. I have done a couple of hours input on my smaller file and then realized that was the one I was working on. I have more work to do but don't want to until I find out which file I should be working on Any and all help would be appreciated. Sonia 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
