Michele, I think it was Sherry who advised using File Maintenance on a regular basis, and I agree with her. I run it about once a month. Sure one may may go for years and not hit a problem, but then, particularly with a large file, there are likely to be large chunks which have never been looked at for a long time – and who knows what may be lurking there!
I also suspect that the more one uses a file to produce reports, change the data, export/import, and, in general, do anything which may involve saving a report the more probable that errors may creep in. I really do recommend that one takes the advice of the program authors and staff when it comes down to running a program. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file Really? I do a file maintenance about once a week! Since I work in my file every day. Maybe I don’t need to do it this often! michele From: Greg Matthews Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 11:01 PM To: mailto:[email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file I have 10,500 and I think I've been using Legacy since about 2002. In those nearly 10 years I believe I've done File Maint. 3 times.. The most recent was just a few weeks ago because I was curious what it would show. Never had any problems show up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1388 / Virus Database: 1516/3740 - Release Date: 07/02/11 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
