Larry, This thread has developed, and the subject is not absolutely related to the content.
Like all users, I am not in a position to know about the final construct of the database of V8.0 compared with V7.5, but in general, when a new version of any program is so close I would not recommend making significant changes to a current database. This is just my practise, sometimes I may as well have carried on, at others I have been very happy that I held back. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Larry Lee Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 8:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature Ron and Brian, Would it be safe for Michele to do the scanning of documents and cleaning her data in v7.5 for items that are not shared events?, leaving the shared events material until after a successful upgrade to v8? Would there be issues related to where the media files are stored now vs how they might be gathered and stored in v8 precluding her starting now? This way she would be able to begin the process now, leaving less for later if she wants to do that? In short would you still advise her to hold fire? Larry Lee Sent from my Nook On Aug 1, 2013 10:08 AM, "Ron Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote: Michele, There is always a risk that a new version will make changes which may mean that changes made in a current version may create some additional work in the new one. Personally, I never make any substantive change to a program's content, especially to the way in which I might arrange data, when I know that a new version is due. So, currently I'm holding fire! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Michele Lewis Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 5:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature The reason I am asking this sort of question is that I am getting ready to export just my direct line (with siblings) to a new Legacy file to completely clean it up. I am also scanning the associated documents (FINALLY) and getting them attached in Legacy properly. I am wondering if I should just wait until Legacy 8 comes out so that I will have the benefit of the enhanced features to save me a little work. One of the things I will have to do is go back over all of the censuses (I never saved the digital images to the hard drive). Besides getting all my data and sources in the correct format I am also wanting to go back over everything in case I missed something the first time around. Michele -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] ? about the new shared even feature No. In Legacy 7.5 there are no shared events, events copied via the clipboard are pasted to the new person as a new event. The events you have copied from one person to another do not contain any way for Legacy 8 to know they are shared and revise the existing event to a shared event. Just to give you an idea of the complexity: Take any Census. You may have hundreds of people with the same census date but only the members of each family should have a "shared" census. Even there there may be years when one or more family members were travelling and not recorded on the same page because they were counted at their travel location not at home. Trying to match which census entries for the family members are identical so make those identical events a shared event would require a difficult comparison. Do you even keep all the details for the event identical for each family member or do you modify the event note? Doing so would make it impossible for a computer to match that event with another family member. I wish it was possible though, I have a lot of work ahead of me if I decide to convert all my events with multiple participants to shared events. Not least of which are the biennial family reunions I have recorded in my file. There is a copy of the Family Reunion Event for each person who attended each reunion. Those have been held every second year since 1985 and the attendee lists vary from a low of 45 to a high of 100. Then there are all the census events as well to convert family group census entries to shared events. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -- On 01/08/2013 9:45 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: > When we upgrade to version 8, will all of our old copy and pasted (via > the clipboard) events show up as shared events? In Geoff’s sneak > preview he stated that there will be an indicator next to the event > showing that there are other people that share that same event. Will > our old “shared†events have this indication? > > Michele 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
