On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:46:02 -0700, "Support" <Support@LegacyFamilyTree.com> wrote: >Look at it this way, Dennis. A person may have source or detail text, >comments, or even a source itself that they wish to remain private. By not >selecting to add the info on reports, that's a good way of keeping it >private. > >That privacy would be lost if the gedcom exported the data that one wished >to suppress. Granted, they could use the double brackets [[ ]] for the >text or comments, but not as readily for the source itself. Respectfully, I don't agree with the implementation. By default, the detail won't get exported to a GEDCOM. And there are people who use GEDCOMs for backup. I argued with Dave when this was implemented. Create a separate option somewhere in Options>Customize (or on the GEDCOM Export window) that says "Exclude Source Detail from GEDCOM Exports". Even default this to checked if you like (please make it sticky if placed on the GEDCOM Export window). But don't let a report option have anything to do with a GEDCOM export. It just doesn't make sense to me. If this is Sheila's problem (we'll probably never know), than it won't be the first time I've seen this implementation cause confusion. -- Dennis Kowallek kowallek@iglou.com ******************

Yes, think this was my GEDCOM problem. I did use GEDCOMs as back-ups plus sent them to a number of people in an information swap. No one ever said anything about missing document text however I'm now finding alot of information lost that I originially thought was in my program. Blessedly most is in an old GEDCOM from another genealogy program so the information was saved. I was a total novice to the program & thought such things would be a default. I , however, will take full blame for not knowing about the "Override Source Options." I'm able to recreate some over time & have learned a lot in the process. Will take me awhile to get the files totally righted as its years of work lost that I didn't realize was gone. Things are what they are so its time to just deal with my files as they are. Hopefully everyone has learned something from this & our use of the program will be better. Many thanks to everyone! Sheila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Kowallek" <kowallek@iglou.com> To: <LEGACY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [LEGACY] Source text disappearing > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:46:02 -0700, "Support" > <Support@LegacyFamilyTree.com> wrote: > >>Look at it this way, Dennis. A person may have source or detail text, >>comments, or even a source itself that they wish to remain private. By >>not >>selecting to add the info on reports, that's a good way of keeping it >>private. >> >>That privacy would be lost if the gedcom exported the data that one wished >>to suppress. Granted, they could use the double brackets [[ ]] for the >>text or comments, but not as readily for the source itself. > > Respectfully, I don't agree with the implementation. By default, the > detail won't get exported to a GEDCOM. And there are people who use > GEDCOMs for backup. > > I argued with Dave when this was implemented. Create a separate option > somewhere in Options>Customize (or on the GEDCOM Export window) that > says "Exclude Source Detail from GEDCOM Exports". Even default this to > checked if you like (please make it sticky if placed on the GEDCOM > Export window). But don't let a report option have anything to do with a > GEDCOM export. It just doesn't make sense to me. > > If this is Sheila's problem (we'll probably never know), than it won't > be the first time I've seen this implementation cause confusion. > > -- > > Dennis Kowallek > kowallek@iglou.com > > ****************** > > > ==== LEGACY Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator, or to unsubscribe, or to view the > list archive, or for other list information, go to the web page at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/LEGACY.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 07:05:03 -0400, "Sheila Chonko" <grami948@toledosuper.net> wrote: >I'm able to recreate some over time & have >learned a lot in the process. Will take me awhile to get the files totally >righted as its years of work lost that I didn't realize was gone. If this were the problem, you would only have lost data if you restored your database from one of these faulty GEDCOMs. Is that what you did? -- Dennis Kowallek kowallek@iglou.com ******************