kb <[email protected]> <[email protected]>Could it be that as you go upstream you encounter someone with multiple parents thus steering you off course?
-- Richard Van Wasshnova On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Howard Cady <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
