bk and Dennis This sounds like an important enough problem that the Users Group and Legacy Support should know the required fix. Please keep us informed. It seems like the obvious "File Maintenance" > "Check/Repair" solution should have been a fix and we need to know why it failed. hc ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:37 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Pointers and Intellimerging
I have another Intellimerge to do, and one file has at least one pointer problem. It manifests as a family file traversible only in one direction, i.e. in this instance traversal upstream deadheads unexpectedly, while traversal downstream from the eldest ancestor completes correctly. From prior experience, I expect that this probably means duplication of a main line individual with the upstream pointer unlinked but the downstream pointer of the parent properly linked. (Before someone suggests it, file repair doesn't seem to fix this.) Four questions: a) Is there any convenient way of locating asymmetrical and/or missing file links in corrupt Legacy files? b) If I perform an Intellimerge with the bad file to the right, will the corrupt structure be discarded on completion, or propagate to the left? c) What causes this kind of file defect and/or data duplication? d) This problem seems to propagate through a gedcom export/import cycle, but could it be fixed easily when the file is in gedcom form? Thanks in advance for any thoughts, kb 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
