Re: [LegacyUG] Cannot open Legacy

2016-06-28 Thread Gene Young
That's a shame. I hope you can recover OK. On 6/28/2016 6:26 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. It was a failing hard drive that was causing the problem. Now I have some work to do to bring everything back to where I want it to be. -- Gene Young Researching Young,

Re: [LegacyUG] Cannot open Legacy

2016-06-28 Thread Dave Johnson
Thanks for the suggestions. It was a failing hard drive that was causing the problem. Now I have some work to do to bring everything back to where I want it to be. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Gene Young wrote: > Dave, > Brian gave an explanation in another email. If

Re: [LegacyUG] How to make a gedcom from my legacy's fdb file

2016-06-28 Thread Brian Lightfoot
Wow, Jenny, in all these years I never noticed the wording of "Select a filename" which I agree is misleading especially to new users. I would suggest a simple change by the programmers to change this to "Enter a filename..." Problem solved. Brian in CA -Original Message- From:

Re: [LegacyUG] second wife

2016-06-28 Thread Leon Chapman
My version of Legacy 8.0.0.559 shows all spouses for a child that had multiple marriages. What version are you using? If you have one person listed twice, it sounds like you have the same person attached twice to a couple. I do not have duplicate children showing. In the lower right corner of

[LegacyUG] second wife

2016-06-28 Thread Willie McColloch
When on the family group sheet, on a print out, one of the children married twice. It does not show the second wife. How can I fix this? I, also, have one person listed twice. How do I combine the two? -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your

Re: [LegacyUG] How to make a gedcom from my legacy's fdb file

2016-06-28 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 28-Jun-16 01:37 PM, Gloria DeSousa wrote: The instructions in Legacy on how to make a gedcom leave me hanging. I get to where I am suppose to choose a file to make into a gedcom, and I get the message: *"Family tree.fdb already exists. Do you want to replace it?"* Just open your family file

[LegacyUG] How to make a gedcom from my legacy's fdb file

2016-06-28 Thread Gloria DeSousa
The instructions in Legacy on how to make a gedcom leave me hanging. I get to where I am suppose to choose a file to make into a gedcom, and I get the message: *"Family tree.fdb already exists. Do you want to replace it?" * Am I suppose to replace my fdb file when making a gedcom file? Will I

Re: [LegacyUG] Cannot open Legacy

2016-06-28 Thread Gene Young
Dave, Brian gave an explanation in another email. If shutting down does not work the next step is to search for and delete all files with an .ldb (lock data base) extension. From Microsoft: "Although .LDB files are typically removed when all users have closed the database, one or more .LDB