I’m sure this was some random event that can never be duplicated and there is nothing a user can do to avoid it other than a one-in-a-million chance of it happening again. The most important thing is to have a recent backup.
Now, speaking of recent backups, I had another oh-oh moment when I looked in my Data folder and found only one backup from a month ago. I know I have backed up more than that. Seems the most recent update of Legacy also changed my custom Data location back to the default C:\Users\Name\My Documents…. I never store any data, whether it be Legacy or any other program on the C: drive. That’s the target of any virus so I move data to a different drive. OK, so I’m paranoid. Easy to have a custom location do when your system has 2 terabytes of drive storage. Sitting on my C: drive were 22 backups which were merely copied over to my custom drive designation. And on my next forced backup, I made sure I changed the location. Guess I was too quick to click the mouse for the past month and never noticed the location had changed. I’ll watch this on the next update to see if it happens again. Brian in CA From: Tessa Keough [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Thanks so much Brian - hearing the issue made me a bit ill as I don't really want to fix my program and I expect my data to be right where I put it. Another reminder to all Legacy users of why it is so important to back up and have a couple of systems in place (extra protection). Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote: This data destruction occurred on its own. I was merely editing a Short Location Name when I noticed the screen blinked and suddenly there were two such locations, one legit and one with the approx. 5,000 names. I’ve never had it happen before and I doubt if I could ever duplicate it. I now wonder if I had just exited Legacy without saving and restarted instead of doing a file check/repair which seemed to cement the erroneous locations to the persons. Blame it on the solar winds. While in the Master Location list, I could easily tag the list of 5,000 and as suggested could use a split screen with a recent backup but then I started to estimate the time needed to wade through such a list. I may not live that long. I opted to jump back 2 days and use the last back up as a starting point. Not really all that bad because all I did for 2 days was to add census images and they are still there in the media folder. By the way, in case you were wondering, this was v8. Brian in CA From: Tessa Keough [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Oh-oh! Does this type of thing just happen on its own Kathy or Brian OR was there some type of user error. If it just happens, that doesn't provide a whole lot of confidence as to integrity of the data entered. It is a bit more concerning than oh-oh. Can anyone explain why it happened? Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough & Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: Soooo sorry to hear this. Wish I could give advice but I do empathize with you. I had a bunch of marriages duplicated once and had to go through every one individually. But at least the group was able to help me do it The fastest way possible. On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]> wrote: I was entering a new location today and jumped into the Master Location List to edit the Short Name Location. But that’s when I noticed that there were two identical location with the same name. I clicked on the other one and was surprised to see a very large list of names associated with that location….something that I knew was impossible. Then Legacy opened up and ERROR window and recommended that I do a File Repair. I did that with no other warnings, and went back to my list to now discover that approximately 5,000 names have their birth location associated with the new location. I don’t know which is easier, go back to a recent back-up and lose all my work from the past few days, or tag all these people with the wrong location and edit each one individually. I think I just take 2 aspirins. Brian in CA 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://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
