Worked fine for me. Although I did not receive a 'cancel' button. I followed all your steps (on the Sample file!) until I was about to copy from clipboard the wrong thing. Then up popped a box asking me if I wanted to replace with the contents of the clipboard - Yes, No. I clicked No, the box went away, and the clipboard contents were not pasted.
Ros Haywood On 28/08/2015 21:40, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > 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 Clipboardâ€. > > 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 Clipboardâ€. > > 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 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
