Aaarrgh! I think I have just discovered something I didn't previously realise about the source clipboard. I know there has been a lot of discussion in the past about the removal of the option to add more than one source to the clipboard - and I have been among those who are glad you can't do that any more because of the risk of adding a source to the wrong event. But I often use the source clipboard to add the same source to more than one event - for instance a newspaper article might give me info about a person's name, birth date, death date, and say burial location. So I add the source to the clipboard, click on the three bar icon and quickly add the source to every field that has information. I normally only add a source this way when I first enter the info because most times the source won't be relevant to all fields that have information. In that case I use the single bar icon to add the source just to the relevant fields. All that by way of explaining that I understand how to use the single and triple bar icons. What now bothers me is that by accident I have just discovered that "all fields with information" includes any additional events, not just the vital events of birth, death, baptism etc. So let's say I had added numerous events to a person, including name, birth date and death date. I then find another source which confirms all of this information re birth and death - no other fields in the information screen have any info, so I can safely use the three bar icon to add the source to all the fields with info. But no - because it will also add the same source to all events as well. As I said - Aaaarrrgh! There may not be many instances where this has happened, because, as I said, USUALLY it is only when a source is giving me information about a newly added person that I use the three bar icon, and a lot of people don't have additional events added anyway, but how often have I done it without realising this unwanted consequence? And how on earth do I find where it might have happened? Aaaarrrgh!
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