This type of problem is usually caused by the person at the dead end having two sets of parents. When working down the tree you pass correctly to them and their descendants through one set of parents but working up the tree their preferred parents are not linked to the rest of the ancestor line.
A check repair will not try to correct these duplicate linkages since multiple parents are allowed ie. adoptive and natural parents. 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 24/02/2011 9:37 PM, [email protected] wrote: > 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
