Thanks Cathy, I kind of figured in the back of my mind that the “Combine with blank” no longer worked. I did manage to go through each individual and remove the event and then eventually removed the definition. To make it a little easier, one can click on Show List of the definition and then create a Search List of all those people. Then it’s just a matter of clicking on Find Next to jump from one record to the next. But it’s a good thing I didn’t have 5,000 records to modify.
I did have some other identical events but spelled differently in the definition that I did use the method of combining them by editing the name of one to be the same as the other name. For example, “Divorce” and “Divorced”. I just edited the name of one of them and Legacy automatically combined them. So as it stands right now, Legacy has no means of deleting a Master Event Definition (that is in use) in just a few mouse clicks. That tells me one has to be very careful about importing any GEDCOM files from other programs which may have events names that you don’t want to appear as an event name. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 9:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to Delete a Master Event Definition Hi Brian, Yes it's difficult. You have to remove the Event from everyone. I don't know whether it is something that can be done in LTools. The combine with blank no longer works and should have been removed from the Help. But it was done the same as combining any other two items in any Master List using the button at the bottom. Cheers, Cathy Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: Anyone actually tried doing this? I can’t figure it out. It’s easy to delete a Definition that is not being used but what about one that is being used? I have an event definition that is used by about 200 different individuals. I want to completely delete such an event. There seems to be 2 ways of doing this. (1)Go to each individual person and delete the event. Once all individuals are no l onger using the event, I can delete the definition from the Master List. (2)In viewing the Master Event Definition List, under the OPTIONS button is a chance to select DELETE. But because multiple individuals are using that event, a message is brought up that Legacy cannot delete the event because it is use. They add a note that one can remove the item by “combining it with the blank item at the top of the listâ€. OK, I’m not so sure exactly what that will cause by combining one definition with a blank one, but if it’ll make the definition go away, then I’d like to try it. The big question is how does one combine one definition with a blank one? I tried editing the definition to a blank but of course Legacy says I can’t do that. Any ideas? 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
