Hi all,
To (hopefully) complete this thread, I have now heard back from Legacy
Technical Help, who state;
Thank you for sending your family file backup. I can see the problems in your
family file, but I don't have a clue as to the cause. There are no other
reports of this happening to other
Apologies for the long message.
I followed the advice of Legacy Technical Help, as follows;
1. Click Search on the menu bar and select Find to open the Search window.
2. Click on the Detail Search tab and then set the following 'Primary
Conditions':
Look for whom? = Individual
Where to look =
://colston-wenck.com
-Original Message-
From: Paul Underwood [mailto:dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, 16 October 2010 1:20 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Fw: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
Apologies for the long message.
I followed the advice of Legacy
[mailto:jcrock...@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, 16 October 2010 2:10 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: RE: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
Paul, I decided to take you up on the challenge and looked at mine. I didn't
find (yet - I haven't gone through all of mine) your error but did find
...@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Saturday, 16 October 2010 2:10 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: RE: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
Paul, I decided to take you up on the challenge and looked at mine. I didn't
find (yet - I haven't gone through all of mine) your error but did find
something
@tiscali.co.uk
Subject: Re: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date: Friday, 15 October, 2010, 17:55
Paul,
Are you saying that the change in the number of the RIN is
an error and you
don't know whether to correct , or that correcting the
citation error
--- On Fri, 15/10/10, Jennifer Crockett jcrock...@optusnet.com.au wrote:
From: Jennifer Crockett jcrock...@optusnet.com.au
Subject: RE: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date: Friday, 15 October, 2010, 16:21
Further to this, the GEDCOM exported
the source
Much of the recent discussion in this thread has been related to the problems
exporting Legacy sources written with SourceWriter via GEDCOM into other
programs.
Some, if not most, of these issues, as I understand it, are due to the
limitations of GEDCOM and are not Legacy bugs.
I have found
Thanks for that - at least I know it's not just me.
Human error would be too easy a solution!
As the problem is occurring in just one field that, as far as I can see cannot
be separately printed, it's particularly worrying as I don't know the extent of
the data loss.
Legacy Technical have now
Paul,
I've followed your thread, and my opinion is you have a problem that is not
easily replicated, nor is it one I've ever experienced (I use SourceWriter
exclusively), except when I used the Source or Event Clipboard and didn't pay
enough attention to what I was saving in Detail. In other
-Original Message-
From: Connie Sheets [mailto:clshee...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2010 2:41
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail Loss
Paul,
I've followed your thread, and my opinion is you have a problem that is not
easily replicated
Hi
Thanks to all those who responded to this thread, trying to help me sort out
the problem of random data loss from Source Details.
I contacted Legacy Technical Support on 3rd October, who acknowledged to say a
substantive reply would follow. Today, 12th October, I received the following
--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could
- whithout first entering the Citation for that Event?
I don't think you have to.
No - afer all, an Event without a Citation to back it up is meaningless.
Paul U
--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
Paul Underwood wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could
- without
first entering the Citation for that Event?
Because at that stage, there is no record to attach your
citation to?
Well that's one way to look
On 2010/10/07 13:06, Paul Underwood wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could
- whithout first entering the Citation for that Event?
I don't think you have to.
No - afer all, an Event without a Citation to back it up is meaningless.
Not necessarily. It could be a
On 2010/10/07 13:16, Paul Underwood wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could
- without
first entering the Citation for that Event?
Because at that stage, there is no record to attach your citation
to?
Well that's one way to look at it, but surely the Source and Detail
--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com wrote:
You are busted ! No attachments to
the list. I did however offer it to
anyone. It is still a .doc. .jpg is the best. I would
convert it, but I
have no program to open a .doc
My apologies to everyone on the group for the
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:06:18 +0100 (BST), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could
- whithout first entering the Citation for that Event?
I don't think you have to.
No - afer all, an Event without a Citation to back it up is
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:09:57 +0100 (BST), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Not being very good at this I wasn't sure how to save a 'PrintScreen' as a jpg
file, so I just pasted it into Word.
Neither one is permitted.
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:16:45 +0100 (BST), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Well that's one way to look at it, but surely the Source and Detail of the
Citation is an integral part of the Event, not a separate entity and, as such,
should form part of the same entry, not be inserted
--- On Thu, 7/10/10, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
The records are actually separate, but linked. They're in
different
tables in the database. It seems possible to go through the
process as
described, and create the Citation, but then not save the
Event. To me,
this causes confusion
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, leeir...@cox.net leeir...@cox.net wrote:
Paul said: No, the data appears
correct when pasted, but then is changed later. I only see
it when putting in data for subsequent (separate) events.
What you are saying still does not sound like you are
trying to do something
On 2010/10/06 08:20, Paul Underwood wrote:
As an example, to insert 1861 for a census data for a married couple. He is a
26 year old farmer from Taunton
1. In Pedigree View, click on individual’s name.
2. In Individual’s Information box, press ‘Add’ in Events/Facts.
3. In Add Event box,
--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail loss
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date: Wednesday, 6 October, 2010, 11:08
On 2010/10/06 08:20, Paul Underwood
wrote:
As an example, to insert 1861
On 2010/10/06 17:41, Paul Underwood wrote:
1. In Pedigree View, click on individual’s name. 2. In
Individual’s Information box, press ‘Add’
in Events/Facts.
3. In Add Event box, a) In Event Fact, click down-arrow,
select ‘Census’ and click ‘Select’.
b) In Description, type
‘Farmer’
c) In
--- On Wed, 6/10/10, Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com wrote:
Step f) Click on the 'Add or Edit Source Citations' icon.
This is not in
the top-right corner, unless you've resized things. Now it
all begins to
make sense. :-)
OK - to be strictly accurate it is the 2nd icon from the left of the 4
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 18:35:13 +0100 (BST), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could - whithout first
entering the Citation for that Event?
I don't think you have to.
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools
You are busted ! No attachments to the list. I did however offer it to
anyone. It is still a .doc. .jpg is the best. I would convert it, but I
have no program to open a .doc
Tim
http://www.xmission.com/~sparky/sourcedetailproblem.doc
On 10/6/2010 11:41 AM, Paul Underwood wrote:
--- On Mon,
On 2010/10/06 19:35, Paul Underwood wrote:
Why would you wish to save the Event - which you could - without
first entering the Citation for that Event?
Because at that stage, there is no record to attach your citation to?
--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg
Legacy User Group guidelines:
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, leeir...@cox.net leeir...@cox.net wrote:
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying, but it
sounds like you think you have one Citation Detail (Source
Detail) per Event/Fact and that you think you are linking
more than one Source to the one Citation Detail (Source
--- On Sun, 3/10/10, RICHARD SCHULTHIES fourpa...@verizon.net wrote:
When that happened to me a few years
ago, I discovered, that by unknowingly sending backups to
the C: drive instead of my portable (it was plugged in) my
fifth backup (with multimedia) stepped on top of the
C:drive. What a
You had previously indicated that you were looking for information that used to
be in the Source Detail but is now missing or is replaced with some random
letter. I'm not sure how that would happen with the process you describe
below, because you create every Source Detail new and then paste
Paul said: When clicking into the Citation Details box to insert details for a
subsequent Citation, you can see the previous entries, and some are
missing/changed.
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are saying, but it sounds like you think
you have one Citation Detail (Source Detail) per
@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail loss
You had previously indicated that you were looking for information that used to
be in the Source Detail but is now missing or is replaced with some random
letter. I'm not sure how that would happen with the process you describe
below
: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail loss
I THINK I had a similar problem some time ago - trouble is I don't remember how
I fixed it! Sorry. Have you checked the archives? I'm afraid I can't even
remember how I worded the problem to give you a clue for searching (blame chemo
brain I'm afraid!) My
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, leeir...@cox.net leeir...@cox.net wrote:
You had previously indicated that you
were looking for information that used to be in the Source
Detail but is now missing or is replaced with some random
letter. I'm not sure how that would happen with the
process you describe
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
I THINK I had a similar problem some
time ago
My problem appeared when I was using the source clipboard - the
source details were being replaced by random
characters in subsequent use of the source which I
gather is your problem
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
I just checked the Archives (after 21
Nov 2009) for my name and came across 15 pages of messages,
including the ones containing my source clipboard problem
and the fact that it had started behaving itself..
for no apparent
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:21:23 -0700 (PDT), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
--- On Sun, 3/10/10, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote:
How are you detecting the problem? By looking at a
generated report? Or
by viewing the Assigned Sources or Source Detail dialogs?
Paul said: No, the data appears correct when pasted, but then is changed
later. I only see it when putting in data for subsequent (separate) events.
What you are saying still does not sound like you are trying to do something
that is even possible. Could you explain in detail exactly what you
Send the screenshot to me. I can post it really quick on my web space
Regards,
Tim Rosenlof
On 10/4/2010 10:10 AM, Dennis M. Kowallek wrote:
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 23:21:23 -0700 (PDT), Paul Underwood
--- On Sun, 3/10/10, Dennis M. Kowallekkowal...@iglou.com wrote:
Can you post a screenshot
- Original Message -
From: Paul Underwood dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:04 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Citation Detail loss
--- On Mon, 4/10/10, Jan Roberts poo...@ozemail.com.au wrote:
I THINK I had a similar problem some
time ago
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 18:22:34 + (GMT), Paul Underwood
dan_c...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Recently, some Details have been disappearing, overwritten with an apparently
random single letter or, occasionally, a detail being used to update another
unrelated record.
How are you detecting the problem? By
When that happened to me a few years ago, I discovered, that by unknowingly
sending backups to the C: drive instead of my portable (it was plugged in) my
fifth backup (with multimedia) stepped on top of the C:drive. What a mess. My
harddrive lost about 100 photos under the overwrite, but they
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