Dave Mayall wrote: >The align function fails if it tries to work with too many records at >once. the most common cause of this is that one of the transcriber has >submitted a file containing more than one page, but has failed to put >the +PAGE lines in to separate the pages. The same occurs in a ONENAME >dataset if +BREAK lines are missed, or if a One Name study is >submitted as a type of RANDOM. Blimey Dave! That probably relates to most of the 350 files I've processed from contributors. Some of these personal data files are quite large. Will this problem be solved by tweaking the software or do you hope (cof!) that I'll re-edit all the files? :-( Best wishes Peter H-I -- Researching: IBBS from Hunts/Beds and HENDY from Pembrokeshire Transcribing and reformatting for FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com)

Quoting Peter Hendy-Ibbs <[email protected]>: > Dave Mayall wrote: > > >The align function fails if it tries to work with too many records at > >once. the most common cause of this is that one of the transcriber has > >submitted a file containing more than one page, but has failed to put > >the +PAGE lines in to separate the pages. The same occurs in a ONENAME > >dataset if +BREAK lines are missed, or if a One Name study is > >submitted as a type of RANDOM. > > Blimey Dave! That probably relates to most of the 350 files I've > processed from contributors. Some of these personal data files are > quite > large. Will this problem be solved by tweaking the software or do you > hope (cof!) that I'll re-edit all the files? :-( I'm sure we could do some processing of your files to fix them. e-mail me off list to discuss what files need fixing. -- Dave Mayall ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through UK Online webmail