Sometimes the rebuild process creates many (6 to 8) copied multiple marriage events for persons with more than one marriage. Was this bug fixed or is it still on the wish list?

At 06:33 PM 5/11/01 +0000, you wrote: >Sometimes the rebuild process creates many (6 to 8) copied multiple >marriage events for persons with more than one marriage. > >Was this bug fixed or is it still on the wish list? Neither. I have not heard of this happening - and wonder if there is some internal problem. After a rebuild, can you go in and delete the marriages and then run the rebuild and it not add them back in? This may be an internal problem of some sort. Depending on the severity of the problem and the extent of your database, one solution may be to do a GED export, create a new database and import. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043

You're right it's likely an internal db bug rather than a program bug. It happened as part of a merge and rebuild. Some individuals had more multiple events than merged sources. It is obvious that one event was duplicated multiple times. Most frequently it was one of two marriages a person might have. Once deleted the multiple events never reocurred. In one case where a husband married twice, it took a couple of re-connects and rebuilds before the program would believe which children belonged to which mother. I suspect that two source files for some of the individuals had conflicting information and it seemed to take a couple of cycles for the program to get it straight. In another case a family of 12 children disconnected twice from their parents, but seem to be staying together now. I see this as a positive aspect of the program. I've imported gedfiles from at least half a dozen different source programs. Some 'standard' gedfiles have required quite a bit of editing to load all events. It's remarkable that CFT can accept many different gedfile variations and not lock up, loose people, or create bogus families. I'm working with about 7000 people across 600 years and CFT manages to keep it all sorted out with only minor glitches. Mike At 08:01 14/05/01 -0500, you wrote: >At 06:33 PM 5/11/01 +0000, you wrote: >>Sometimes the rebuild process creates many (6 to 8) copied multiple >>marriage events for persons with more than one marriage. >> >>Was this bug fixed or is it still on the wish list? > >Neither. I have not heard of this happening - and wonder if there is some >internal problem. After a rebuild, can you go in and delete the marriages >and then run the rebuild and it not add them back in? This may be an >internal problem of some sort. Depending on the severity of the problem and >the extent of your database, one solution may be to do a GED export, create >a new database and import. > >Ira > >------------------------------------------------ >Mr. Ira J. Lund >E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com > >Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043 > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >You can contact the List Manager at: >[email protected] > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >