Gene, My original file reads as follows (see below).
I've saved the original file as an -Alt.txt file in the same folder, done modifications, but nothing is changing. I am closing Legacy, making the change in the file, and reopening Legacy with each modification, then making a correction to a location, but it is still saving the location as "United States" instead of "USA". What am I doing incorrectly? Thank you for you help and patience, Lana +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ USA|+USA *remove the * from following line if you want to remove USA from your long locations *USA|+[blank] *remove the * from following line if you want to remove USA from your short locations *USA|-[blank] USA|America USA|U.S. USA|U.S.A. USA|U. S. A. USA|United States USA|United States of America USA|US USA|US of A USA|USofA -----Original Message----- From: Gene Young Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 7:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Location default listing USA as United States 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
