The great thing about Legacy is the Intellishare value which is stored in each individual record. Often, we have researchers that have somehow been updating different copies of their database and later realized they had a problem. One lady even had 5 instances of the same database with various updates in each one. The best method is to import each copy into a common database and then execute an Intellishare merge. It will automatically fix all the records that are the same and stop to review each one with differences. New records will be added. Then after the Intellishare merge, you should run a normal "find duplicates" and merge them also. One method to make the merges find fewer differences is to clean up the master locations table after combining the files and before the merges. Likewise you can standardize the names with Options>Customize>Data Format and the 5 "Apply" buttons. If the different databases had info in the User ID fields, then you can clear those with Options>Customize>Other and the "Clear All User IDs" button. A good example of what looked like a disastrous change occurred recently. One collaborator accidently combined Salt Lake City into Salem Utah which affected about 18,000 individuals in his copy of the database. I got his copy, changed all of the Salem Utah back to Salt Lake City and then Intellimerged it with the main copy of the file which still had the correct Salt Lake City and Salem. The 180 records which should have remained Salem in the collaborator copy were detected as differences when compared with the main database and fixed manually. Everything else cleaned up and a new copy sent to the collaborator to continue working.Ron Taylor
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