On 9/2/2012 9:38 AM, Ron Taylor wrote: > Lana, > I don't think there is a way to make it save "USA" when you select one of the > locations that are found in the United States. There was a change in the > program when they added the "United States" options and now it no longer > stores the 3 character abbreviation. Someone must have thought it would be > confused with another nation. For some reason, the short location, which is > supposed to be an abbreviated location name, also stores "United States" > versus "USA". >
Actually there is. A long time ago Millennia provided the flexibility to have our locations as we wanted them and provided full instructions about how to change the defaults. Legacy's Geo defaults are in 4 separate files named Geo*.txt These files can be updated by Millennia at any time so *user* defaults should not be set in them. Instead you copy the appropriate file -- for the "USA" this is the GeoCountryCodes.txt -- so you will have your defaults/modifications in GeoCountryCodes-Alt.txt When Legacy runs it checks to see if there is a user "-Alt" file to provide the defaults. If not it uses Millennia's Geo... file with the -Alt in the name. The change you need to make to your GeoCountryCodes-Alt.txt file is near the bottom in the USA section where you should remove the + sign prefixing United States. The lack of a plus sign signifies that USA should be used for long locations. The lack of a minus sign signifies that USA should be used for short locations. So change USA|+United States to USA|United States. Hope this helps. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm 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
