Thanks Brian for the info. Laird On 2/9/2011 12:09 PM, Brian/Support wrote: > Tables XI and XM are a list of unused/deleted RINs and MRINs for > internal use within Legacy. Each table will only include 500 numbers at > a time. They are rebuilt as required by searching for a new batch of > unused numbers in the RIN table (IR) or the MRIN table (MR). Neither > table is designed to include all the unused/deleted numbers. > > Brian > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > [email protected] > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > Thanks. > > On 08/02/2011 11:48 PM, Laird wrote: >> I have questions about a topic in the archives, so I included previous >> messages >> below: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04740.html >> ======= >> I like to keep certain families within a range of RIN's. So when I import a >> new >> family I set the new member RINs to begin after the highest RIN. To add >> family >> members to a previous family, I select the correct RINs in the range of that >> family. Before I import into my main database, I import a GEDCOM and tell >> Legacy to renumber RINs and MRINs starting at _______. I select a number >> where >> I want the family to be in my main database. Next I import that Legacy file >> into my main database and the RINs will mesh within the range I wanted. I >> have >> been doing this for the past year of so without any problems. The past few >> days >> I had been using tblXI to find the holes in the RIN list to place people, >> this >> was a very nice shortcut without manually looking for gaps in the RIN range. >> Something went wrong and the tblXI results no longer gave realistic numbers. >> I have tested 18 previous database versions with varying results using >> Ltools >> and Legacy. One of my files (97 individuals) has huge numbers of >> unused/skipped >> RINs. This number is calculated as follows: (highest RIN - number of >> individuals) (14,339 - 97) = 14,242 unused in the database, which tblXI >> reports >> as only 500. I think this file may be the one I exported a persons >> descendants >> from Legacy with about 50 people and added another 47 or so and used >> IntelliShare to import it back into my main database. >> >> There are about 500 unused RINs in the range of 9,000 to 10,000 in my main >> database. And 500 is the typical number [incorrectly?] reported in tblXI for >> most of the files. I do have one database in which the unused counts are >> much >> closer i.e. RIN count = 26,944 - 19,133 individuals, calculated = 7,811 vs >> tblXI >> = 7,303. I have used a WinXP laptop with Legacy version 7.4.0.45 and a >> desktop >> WinVista-64 with Legacy version 7.5.0.47 to enable and disable"Reuse >> abandoned >> RINs". I check tblXI before turning on "Reuse abandoned RINs" and then again >> after turning it off. I also did a File Maintenance> Check/Repair on some >> of >> the files and didn't see any difference, but I don't remember which files I >> this >> did this. >> >> I didn't do a test on tblXM like tblXI, but the MRINs appear to be in the >> range >> I would expect. >> >> Has anyone had any experience similar to mine? Is there a difference between >> deleted vs missing/unused RINs? Maybe tblXI is for RINs that been used and >> then >> deleted? Maybe this is just an inconvenience for me and there isn't anything >> wrong with my database. And I should just bite the bullet and go back to >> determining the missing RINs manually. >> >> Thanks for any comments you may have about this. >> Laird >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >>> Re: [LegacyUG] Missing RINs >>> >>> Dennis M . Kowallek >>> Wed, 19 May 2010 07:16:55 -0700 >>> >>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:27:00 -0500, Robert Carneal USA >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone know of a way to get Legacy to generate a report listing >>>> the RINs that are empty? >>>> >>>> Then the report tells me "7" is not used? >>> Robert (and others): >>> >>> If you have "Reuse abandoned RINs" turned on, then tblXI contains a list >>> of the missing RINs. You can run the following query in Access, LTools, >>> OOBase, etc.: >>> >>> SELECT tblXI.DeletedID FROM tblXI ORDER BY tblXI.DeletedID >>> >>> If you do not have "Reuse abandoned RINs" turned on, you can turn it on >>> temporarily. This will cause tblXI to be rebuilt. Then you can run the >>> above SELECT query. When you are done you can turn off "Reuse abandoned >>> RINs". >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Dennis Kowallek (LTools) >>> http://zippersoftware.com/ltools >>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools >>> >> >> >> 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 > > > > > >
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