Thanks, but the good news is that I am catching my cousin's mistakes as I get into each person's record. I created a list for all custom events and deleting is pretty fast. No Alt+ key is available for Delete, which would have made this even faster. Jerry
Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2011/07/14 05:36, Jerry Peterson wrote: > >> One more caveat, I had the brilliant idea that I would do a search and >> replace >> for Record Change, so I did that and had the Legacy search and replace module >> look for every instance of Record Change, but I changed it to a BLANK field, >> thinking it would delete the whole record. It did not delete the record, it >> just left it there with a blank or null name for the event and the date is >> still >> there. So, that being the case, I may be stuck with having to delete each >> and >> everyone individually, unless anyone can come up with a global way. I've >> already fixed probably 1,000 or more records and I might have almost that >> many >> to go. > >What you're asking for is, potentially, catastrophic! Which is probably why >there is no way within Legacy of doing what you want :-) > >You're going to have to bite the bullet and do delete the events one by one. >This can be made easier by tagging those individuals who have the redundant >Event in their list of events. > >-- >Regards, >Mike Fry >Johannesburg > > >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 > > 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
