This gets curiouser and curiouser. >From Dennis' last post, it appears that he studied this at the database level, >finding multiple duplication of spouses at the problem point. Viewed from the >Family screen in our Legacy 6, the husband and wife icons carry a "1" and >clicking them brings the "Wives of...Spouses of..." screens with correct and >unduplicated information. Proceeding by: Search>multiple spouses>clear >list>make list does NOT find either of the couple involved, but it does find >erroneous duplication of the couple where icons indicate duplication and >clicking them confirms it.
It follows that an indeterminate amount of database structure corruption HAS been proven, which at least my copy of Legacy 6 CAN NOT DETECT and DOES NOT REPORT. That would appear to make it not user fixable, and raises the spectre of a general problem which hasn't been reported because it lurks invisibly in the database. It still may be a unique situation with my file, AND my Legacy 6. It is almost certainly in family files that I have distributed, and likely in gedcom abstracts which I have passed to other genealogists. Dunno if it would propagate if I or they converted the file to Legacy 7 format - and still would lurk silently because Legacy 7 doesn't detect it either. We have only one Microsoft machine at present, so I can't test that. Another thought is that it's an artifact of, or amplified by, frequent Intellimerging. Legacy 7 work the same way? Dennis suggests I make a small file and repeat whatever caused this, and I would if I had any idea what that was. I have the big file and might be able to abstract a corrupt subset for study, else it's 9 MB, 1.5 MB zipped, and I can document the Family View and Search list with screenshots. Any suggestions anyone? kb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis M. Kowallek" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:38:07 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Pointers and Intellimerging FYI, kb's database appears to be V6. 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
