I understood your question the first time; that makes absolutely no sense; you are completely right. Can you go to a back up? Perhaps you have one that you made just before all the export/import activity? Is it possible that somehow during the process, a different file was created and the file you are seeing is not actually your original master file at all? I've always wished that genealogy programs would include a 'last changed' date somewhere for each individual or ideally for each bit of information so you'd know when you made each entry. Like maybe somehow it took you to a backup copy that didn't have all of the people that you have in your current file and so it looks like you lost individuals. Also, maybe only the links were broken? I assume you know approximately how many people were in your database before, is that number significantly different now?
No need to answer these questions for me; I'm sure some of the techies here will be of help to you; I've just had so many weird things happen to me with computers over the years that I try to think of random, unusual things that you 'think' could never happen because you 'did it right'. Technology is both blessing and curse, depending on what it's doing for you (or to you) on any particular day. Good luck with this; I hope you are able to recreate your database without loss of information. Kathy On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:26 AM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > I expect loss of data via GEDCOM. What I did not expect is to export > a GEDCOM and have date removed from my master file. Or, to merge into > a new family file and have data removed from the master file. I did > not want or expect any edits to the master file, that is why I created > a new one to merge into. I do not understand why this happened. > > My question here is specifically why did my master file get corrupted? > My understanding is that I was making edits to a completely separate > file and only pulling data in from the original. I did not ever see > an option that was to pull the data in and then delete from the > source!?!?!?!?! > > > If this is how the merge works, then I'll not be using it again either. > > > > 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 > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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
