I have done intellimerging which resulted in merge of individuals with same Intel ID. The right side husband and wife RIN gets deleted but the MRIN remained with no RIN. It is a bug. I did delete xtra MRINs fairly easily. Didn't have that many.
-- Richard Van Wasshnova On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Dennis M. Kowallek <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:18:06 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] wrote: > > >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. > > You are mis-representing my private emails. You do not appear to have > read the last several. The structure of the database appears to be > correct. Pointers appear to be pointing where they should point. The > problem appears to be that somehow you have extra sets of parents in > your database. Note that I said PARENTS, not SPOUSES. > > >That would appear to make it not user fixable > > It certainly is fixable by the user. May take a little work but it can > be fixed. All you have to do is unlink the extra parents. > > >and raises the spectre of a general problem which hasn't been reported > because it lurks invisibly in the database. > > Can't answer that since I don't have access to Legacy's bug reporting > system. > > >It is almost certainly in family files that I have distributed, and likely > in gedcom abstracts which I have passed to other genealogists. > > Probably. > > >Dunno if it would propagate if I or they converted the file to Legacy 7 > format > > It probably would since there is structurally nothing wrong with your > database. > > >and still would lurk silently because Legacy 7 doesn't detect it either. > > There is nothing to "detect". Having multiple sets of parents is a valid > situation. You can run "Search > Miscellaneous Searches > Individuals > with multiple parents" to find potential problems, but some of these > might be valid adoptions, etc. > > 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
