Cathy - thanks for trying to generate the same problem that I have had. I will carefully try to generate the same problem, after making a test copy of my data.
As I described, it occurred with a newly-created record, when I typed a death location K Hill (exactly those chars) and clicked the button to the RHS that has a small down-arrow, which activates the Master Location List (MLL). A small picture would help, instead of all these words. Within that interface, nothing was found and the freezing of Legacy occurred when attempting to click Close to exit the MLL. Of the past occasions on which programme freeze occurred, I can’t give a blow-by-blow account of what caused the exact same result, but the application freeze did occur within the MLL and required Task Manager to close Legacy – as it did today. I’m well aware that a grouch here is not a report of the error to Millennia. Before I decide whether to do that, I will have a few tries to replicate the error – but trying to suggest a very simple improvement to the UX with Hints in v9 a week or two ago left me exasperated. I may just put up with the faults and protect my data against damage by regular backups. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2017 6:37 PM To: Legacy User Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location lookup causes Legacy freeze Ian, Writing to this list isn't reporting to Millennia. I've followed your instructions using the Legacy Sample file. Understandably, K Hill, Victoria, Australia wasn't in the Location list. I closed the List and entered it on the Individual Information screen without a problem. What have I missed? Tried again with my test file which is much larger. Messed around in the Location list changing the sort. Still no problem. Probably I'm clicking on the wrong thing. I click on the down arrow to access the Master Location List and not the world icon for the geo location database as I don't use that and don't have it installed. Is that where the problem is? Cathy Ian Thomas wrote: I have noticed this many times, and it has finally annoyed me enough that I should report it to Mille nnia. If a Location lookup is attempted in the Individual Info edit screen, by selecting the control at right, under the condition below the action of simply closing the Master Location List module (using the Close button) will cause Legacy Family Tree to lock up. This requires a restart; the current person’s data edit is of course lost. This happens when the newly-entered locality cannot be found by the module. In my latest mishap, my entry was K Hill, Victoria, Australia (I hoped that I had an entry that was similar, in the Master Location List; not so). I believe this is ONLY when a new person is added and his/her details are being entered, and have not yet been saved; if the person does already ‘exist’ in the database, the list under ‘Geocode’ in the Location module, headed “People using this location”. Perhaps it is due to a slow lookup to Bing Maps – whatever the reason, it ’s annoying. K Hill is an abbreviation used by state of Victoria (recorded in its BDM index) around 1900s for some location – I have searched a bit, cannot find a credible match. For those paranoid about Legacy v9 – this occurred in v8 Deluxe , many times. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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