Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-05 Thread Marilyn Clark
...@melbpc.org.au wrote: From: Peter Haughton p...@melbpc.org.au Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you To: Legacy User Group LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 9:30 PM Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older

[LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Or to put it another way, learn by my mistake! I have been busy converting all my Basic System sources to SourceWriter (big job!) and am currently working on the 1871 Censuses, at the same time taking the opportunity to change the way I record the Census information. Having recently made

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Virginia Dunham
Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older editions of a family screen in the split screen. This way I know that one is old and one is new. Virginia. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages:

RE: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jack Earnshaw
...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: 04 September 2009 10:29 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you Or to put it another way, learn by my mistake! I have been busy converting all my Basic System sources to SourceWriter (big job

RE: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Jack Earnshaw wrote: Jenny You can locate the people you updated by using the search function, searching for added date and/or modified date - setting the search to something like after the day before you did the changes in the wrong file. Thanks Jack, but I have no problem in knowing how

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Jenny M Benson
Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older editions of a family screen in the split screen. This way I know that one is old and one is new. That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avoid split screen where

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Gene Young
Jenny M Benson wrote: Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older editions of a family screen in the split screen. This way I know that one is old and one is new. That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avoid

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Brian/Support
Jenny, There is a setting that will have Legacy always start up using the same file. Go to Options Customize General In the starting family file select option 3, use the down arrow beside the box to find and select the file you want Legacy to start with. Then when you start a new session

Re: [LegacyUG] Let this be a lesson to you

2009-09-04 Thread Peter Haughton
Virginia Dunham wrote: Having done that myself...I now open up duplicate or older editions of a family screen in the split screen. This way I know that one is old and one is new. That's a good idea and one which I might adopt in future, although I have tended to avoid split screen where