Rose, Kurt, et al, Yes, currently, on a Gedcom and Legacy export only export the items on the various lists that are actually used by the Family File. An issue has been raised (by me...) to the developers to give the user an option to export all list items.
But Privacy concerns are likely only thing that can change the number of people not exported. That said, we have seen from time to time that the counts on the File Information page, are not necessarily dynamically generated. When I have seen a discrepancy in the people export count, I have done a Check-repair to bring the numbers in alignment. If you are worried about the counts, I suggest that before you check those numbers, do from the File ribbon a backup, Maintenance/check-repair, another backup, then close and re-open Legacy. Then you should see very precise current numbers in those counts. Then do your export, setting all of your privacy overrides ON. Then you should see the number of people exported equaling the number of people in your Family File. ok? john. At 09:17 AM 12/2/2013, Kurt Kneeland wrote: >My guess would be that you have unused/unlinked >items in your master lists. Those won't get exported in a GEDCOM. > >For Surnames, if you add an individual and >mistype his surname, that gets added to the >master list. When you go back and correct it on >the individual, the corrected version gets added >to the master list. Under View->Master >Lists->Surname, there is an option to Purge Unused. > >Same for Master Locations. > >I haven't explored the others, but I imagine >itâs the same or similar situation. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rose Hatten [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 7:11 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] export gives different number of persons > >Thanks, Kurt, that was part of it. It improved >some of the numbers, but not all. Even when I >did an export to a new Legacy file, the numbers >were different. It's just baffling why things >like the number of unique surnames, master >locations, master sources, and repositories >would be different. Guess I need more testing. >Rose > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kurt Kneeland" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 19:36:59 -0600 >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] export gives different number of persons > > > I ran an export and my counts for individuals and families matched >exactly. > > > > Check your Export Privacy Options. If you have Private/Invisible >individuals, marriages, events, etc., they won't >be exported unless you select the applicable >options. There's also an option at bottom of >the privacy options list that controls whether >your privacy option selections are remembered for future exports. > > >============================ > > > I tried to export my data, first to a GEDCOM, and second to a new > > Legacy >file. Before doing the export, I did a >check/repair and a compacting of the file. I >exported all individuals in the file. > > > > The numbers in the export are not the same as reported in the General >Information screen. The database shows 2492 >persons, the exports, both to GEDCOM and Legacy, >show 2348. The numbers on master events, media >items, repositories, event addresses, master >sources, locations are all different from database to export. > > > > Does anyone know what would account for these differences? Losing > > almost >150 people when exporting is distressing. How >can I reliably get my data exported from Legacy? > > > > Rose > > > > >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 > > > > > >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 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
