Sherry, Thanks for the reply > David, > > I've not seen the Error 3020 before. Do you recall the full error message > with that problem? Sorry, no, I don't recall the message text. I had to retry the import to recreate the error just to get the error number. The error message didn't stay on the screen very long. > > I'm going to check with the webmaster on the linking for that error message. > > I would strongly suggest that a backup be done before ever importing > *anything* into an existing file! > I guess I learned that the hard way. I did have an old backup, which I eventually used a starting point for reconstructing my database. > I would say that the linking problems could have resulted from aborting the > import, but I'm not sure. Did you try a merge? The import terminated itself before it finished. I never got to the point where I could do a merge. Probably unrelated, but before this happened, I noticed another quirk. Sometimes when I clicked on the icons for a person's notes, sources, parents, etc., it would jump to the notes (or whatever) for record number 1 (me) if the person was a male or record number 2 (my wife) if the person were a female. If I weren't paying close attention, I would add information to the wrong person. This seemed to happen more often if I was using split view mode. > > Thanks for using Legacy. > > Sherry > Customer Support > Millennia Corporation > Support@MillenniaCorp.com > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > Thanks. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Cornell [mailto:djcmgf@optonline.net] > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:05 PM > To: LEGACY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LEGACY] Error 3020 on Import > > When I imported new data into my main database, I got error message 3020 and > I had to quit the import. I was importing from another Legacy database. > > When ran File Maintenance Check/Repair, I discovered that many invalid > marriages had been added, some with male "wives" or female "husbands, and > others with randomly selected wives and husbands. > I have tried to fix this manually by unlinking the bad marriages, but there > are hundreds of them. > > Do I have any other options here other than manually checking every marriage > record and deleting the bad ones? Does this error cause any other damage > that needs to be corrected, other than the bogus messages? > > The online help for message 3020 just points me to directions for installing > the latest Legacy update date, but I already have that. > > Unfortunately, I do not have a recent backup. > > Anyone have any idea what happened here and how to keep it from happening > again? > > I have Legacy 5.0 Deluxe, Version 5.0.0.173, 26 Oct 2004. > I am running on Windows XP with SP2 and all current service (as far as I > know). > > David Cornell