Hi
Given that I was watching the TV when I wrote that out, I don't
think that I missed anything important.
A couple of other thoughts. When taking the intermediate backups,
you only need to backup the new file, since that is the only one you
have updated. And if you have found a problem during the merge, then
restore the updated file back to latest version, remember they are
date/time stamped. If there is a problem with the merge, usually because
the process has issues identifying matching people, you might find it
easier to fix the information in the files and then run the merge step
again. Hopefully, you will not get any errors, but again at the end,
check carefully around the points that the old files inter-related to
ensure that you have not created a person multiple times, because they
were too different and the merge thought they were different people.
I have run this in the past when I merged in a couple of trees that
my cousins had built, and then I had a lot of duplicated people most of
which got merged correctly. But I did need to run the Merge | Find
Duplicates step, which can be a pain when it keeps finding people who
are different but look similar.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Gail Morrow" <olivanna...@gmail.com>
To: "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Sent: 14/08/2018 16:14:52
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Different family files
Thank you so much Chris .... I am worried about trying this but with
backups, I should be alright. Cross my fingers.
You have made the process clear (I think, ha ha) and I will let you
know how it goes. Again thanks for your time.
Gail Morrow
olivanna...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:51 PM, Chris Hill
<chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi
Yes, you should be merging the multiple files into one. Apart from the
issue of making multiple backups you are also having to maintain
information on the same person, who is common between multiple parts
of the family, twice. And if you match my tree you will find out that
there are multiple people who are in multiple parts of the trees.
The first thing to do is to take a full set of backups for all of the
trees, and then make NO changes to them until you are complete.
Secondly, decide which one of them is the MASTER and make a copy of it
as the new tree.
You will then add each of the other trees to the new tree. In your
case the number of duplicated people should be minimal and you should
be able to run the standard merge function. For the duplicated people
it should then ask you to merge the records into one merged person.
For each of those you will need to decide which parts of each person
you need to keep, if they are different.
After completing each merge you need to verify that it is good and
take another backup of the merged file, because you might need to step
back and rerun again.
Finally, at the end check through to see if you have multiple trees in
the new model. Ideally you should not, unless you had them as
independent trees in the original files, but it is worth looking and
then decide what do with them - delete or find out whether they are a
duplicate.
Now you just have one tree to maintain and no duplicate people.
Good luck.
Regards
Chris
From my Motorola G6+
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, 20:17 , <olivanna...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Folks... I am hoping someone will have the patience to tell me if
I should add all my different family files into just the one.
If this is the best way to go and will some information and media
overlap and cause difficulties.
I have eight files eg. Husbands maternal and another paternal... same
for my families. Takes time to backup each one.
How to go about merging all files.
Gail Morrow
olivanna...@gmail.com
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