Re: [LegacyUG] File Maintenance

[Elizabeth Verchio]

I have 42,237 individuals, 32,434 Citations, 34,279 Master Events etc. and it only takes a couple minutes to run File Maintenance - Check/Repair, List Clean up and Compact. If yours is taking hours for 9000 individuals I would think there is corruption in your file. I back up several times a day using 2 or 3 different file names.  I run Check/Repair often, especially after I have deleted files, sometimes making backup before, sometimes not.  Brian has made several good suggestions.  Hope something I have offered is of value. Elizabeth Verchio born in Alabama living in illinois Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.  (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) ― Marcus Tullius Cicero On 2/12/2015 10:35 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: I don't see a lot a answers coming in for this one and that's probably because there is no good answer. Most people would probably RESET the computer but by doing so you stand a good chance of corrupting the database. You'd better hope that you have a recent backup. And don't they recommend you to backup BEFORE doing a Check/Repair? Here are some things that I might consider. Go to the Task Manager, Applications, and then End Task on all other applications that may be running other than Legacy. I would then go to the Processes tab, and click on the CPU column to determine what was hogging all the CPU cycles, and kill off any processes that I knew were unnecessary at this time. This is risky unless you knew what was needed and what is not but after several hours, you have to do something. And if it was the Legacy application and process that had the system hung, I guess one has no choice but to reboot and hope for the best. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Howard [mailto:wendy.how...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 10:49 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] File Maintenance Wait. :-) Wendy Pat Hickin wrote on 12/02/2015 17:51: I am doing File Maintenance-Check/Repair. I have c 9000 people in my database and ordinarily it takes c 2-3 minutes to complete. It has been running an hour or so now & the progress bar is not showing that it has gotten _any_where yet. Legacy Help, of course is not accessible. So what do I do now?? Pat Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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