Connie, The usual cause of wholesale duplicates, is importing a gedcom file back into the database it originated from. Importing does not overwrite existing records. I always make a new backup before importing anything so I can restore the backup if anything goes wrong. Bill Buchanan On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, <bradbury@acsalaska.net> wrote: > When I got my first thumb drive I made a big mistake. I loaded my PAF > database on > it for the same reason others do - to work on it on different computers, at > a FHC > or the FHL, etc. > > I made a number of additions to my desktop database then saved it on my > thumb > drive. I'm not sure what I did wrong but I ended up with duplications of > every > single name (instead of approximately 10,000 names I have 20,000 names). > It took > me two days to delete all the duplications. > > What did I do worng when I saved my database? I thought I would > automatically > write over the existing database. > > Connie > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAF-5-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Bill Buchanan website: http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com blog: http://billbuchanan.blogspot.com