As soon as my head hit the pillow (almost midnight local), I remembered what I had done in the past. Restore the 'best' backup and name it XULLIVAN or similar. See if it comes up clean (and still has the duplicate person). If yes, carefully do the Merge in 'XULLIVAN', and I hope it works. Otherwise, Legacy staff may want you to send your DB to them. In similar situations, they have always responded quickly. Hope it helps Rich in LA CA
--- On Sat, 4/9/11, Jan Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jan Roberts <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Restore problems > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, April 9, 2011, 9:37 PM > Further again. I managed to > achieve what I was originally trying to do, and combined my > two women via Merge. Still having to contend with the > error message everytime I tried to do anything. Then I > decided I'd try to do another backup and restore to see if > that solved my problem. But only made it worse - now I > get a different message > Error opening database. > Unrecognized database format > 'C:\Legacy\Data\SULLIVAN-1.fdb'. > Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? > And get thrown back to a list of files to select > from. Any ideas please? > > Cheers > Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 10 April 2011 13:57 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Restore problems > > Further to this message - I have now managed to get into my > file by clicking No several times - but the message keeps > appearing whenever I try to do anything. I have run > check / repair now to no avail. > > Cheers > Jan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 10 April 2011 13:50 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Restore problems > > I was trying to combine (as opposed to the formal 'merge' > action) two women > married to the same man - turns out they are the same > woman. I accidentally > deleted the one who had the most information, so I tried to > restore the file > from a backup I made ten minutes previously. The > backup appeared to go > without a hitch. However, the restore has gone > pear-shaped! I get the > following message > Error opening Relationship database. > Unrecognized database format > 'C:\Legacy\Data\SULLIVAN-1.Rc3'. > Would you like to TRY IT AGAIN? > Try Again does nothing, No does nothing and Quit closes the > program. I am > using the latest version Deluxe. How do I resolve > this issue? I can't get > into the program to do a check repair. > > Cheers > Jan > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
