Hi Anne,
I sure hope you have a recent backup. Even then it could have been ages to notice that things were wrong. It looks like the only solution is to go through those 7500 entries and check them against a previous file. Wow, a huge job. Again, even a backup would only have saved you completely had you noticed the issue straight away. I’m not sure how I would have reacted had the cleanup stopped working. I do backups on a regular basis, using Legacy’s File/Backup and include my media files as well. That can take some time to do. If I’m going to do an operation that is a even a little suspect I will do a quick backup, that is, a copy of my file. You don’t even have to close Legacy – just go to the location of your file, right click on it, copy, then paste it in the same folder. Now you have “filename – Copy.fdb” and it only took a few seconds. Cheap insurance. Good luck. Bob A From: Anne Picketts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations I started getting suspicious while I was adding to the db on Sunday afternoon - there were several with the same location and I had a feeling that they shouldn't have been. I did a print out from the Master Locations list for that particular location - 149 pages - 50 entries on each page!!!! :-( And yes - come to think of it, I did attempt a Master locations list clean up. It asked me if I wanted to see the list - yes, I did; OK............and then it simply stopped working - "not responding". Nasty! Anne On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Bob Austen <[email protected]> wrote: Now that is scary, but how would I know, unless I came across a location I knew to be incorrect. Had you been making any changes/corrections/cleanup in the Master Locations? Any recent Search/Replace actions? Bob A From: Anne Picketts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 3:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Locations Has anyone had a problem with Legacy V.8 unwittingly(??) altering locations? I operate a large database and sometime over the past week, many of my locations have been globally changed to the same location (without any obvious help from me). Fortunately, I can check through Legacy 7 to make necessary corrections (which will be a time consuming pain), but I am curious to know how it could have happened. Any suggestions welcome. -- Anne PICKETTS Waipu, NZ Phone: 09 432-0045; Mobile: 021 252 1013 NZSG #5331; KFHS #6151 www.waipumuseum.com 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
