I can't remember if this has been discussed but I noticed this problem several weeks ago and today I took the time to reproduce it and document it.
First of all, don't try this on your family database file. You will lose data! Use only a test copy of your file or the sample.fdb files. It all has to do with copying an event from the clipboard to overwrite another event typically on another individual when you want to completely replace the terminology of the notes or maybe more info from a census event. Doesn't really matter because this will happen to any type of event even if you accidently click on an existing Military event when you have a census event in the clipboard. Here are the steps. 1. Open any event from any individual. 2. Click on the left icon towards the bottom right which signifies "Copy Event to Clipboard". 3. Close that event. You now have one event on the clipboard. 4. Open up any other event on that same person or on any other person. 5. Click on the right icon towards the bottom right which signifies "Paste Event from Clipboard". 6. Legacy will open a window entitled "Replace Contents?" Click Yes. 7. At this point let's pretend you've had one too many beers to drink or you just realized you had the wrong other person opened, or the wrong other event. Or whatever.you made a mistake. 8. Normally you would click on SAVE to save the contents of the event but since you made a mistake, you click on CANCEL. 9. Guess what? Cancel did nothing and the contents of the event were saved after all. 10. There is no going back so whatever data you had in the event that got replaced are gone forever. I should think cancel means cancel and save means save. But apparently as the code is written right now, once you agree to replace the contents, even before you see it pasted in place, it's a done deal. Events are saved even before you click on save. There is no such thing as CANCEL. Am I missing something here or do I see this needing a little code clean up. 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
