Interesting, I just pasted 1,600,031 characters into the General Notes field.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: Bob Janice [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 January 2014 16:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] v7.5 General Notes - how much text will this field hold? According to the field capacities list on the Legacy web pages, all of the note fields in Legacy (General, Medical, Research, and Marriage notes) have a length of 1,000,000 characters. On 1/26/2014 11:24 AM, Alan Pereira wrote: > Note is a MSAccess MEMO field > "A Memo field can store up to 65,536 characters." MSaccess Help file > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mary Fowler Leek [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 26 January 2014 15:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] v7.5 General Notes - how much text will this field hold? > > I have a Legacy user who has asked me this question and while I know it has > been asked before, I can't remember, didn't save the answer and cannot find > this in the Help file. Is the capacity actually controlled by a limitation of > Windows? > > I also searched the mail archives but soooo many messages came up by > searching on Notes, I could read for a week and not finish going > through > them.:-) > > If you have know the answer, please share. > > > Mary > 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
