Carol, If you have PAF Insight or Family Insight, you can use the Compare and Synch function to open both files and copy those 9 people to the other database. If you don't have these products, you can export the records from the PAF file in a gedcom file. You can select them using either the Relationship Filters or use the Advanced Focus Filter to select the 9 highest RINs. Then import the gedcom into the other file and merge or link to attach them to the family. A third alternative is a free clipboard expander. I use ClipX. www.bluemars.org/clipx That way the clipboard can hold 25 items at a time, which can then be pasted in the order of my choice. It sure beats copying and pasting one thing at a time! Tip: Make sure each PAF file has a different name. -- Bill Buchanan website: http://billbuchanan.byethost17.com blog: http://billbuchanan.blogspot.com On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Lorac <radford2@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Yes, I've done it again. I am not a newbie to genealogy, I just never have > had a handle on the different files in the PAF program. So therefore, I try > and watch very closely Every time I back up it makes a new file. If I > inadvertently click on the short cut to PAF that's on my desktop, I expect > it to be the file I'm working in. Well, not so tonight. The last family I > was researching (with 9 new entries) are in the other file. I do not > know > how it replaced my current file on my desktop, but it did. So, my question > is: how can I, without retyping all those 9 new people and sources with > notes, get them into my regular Paf file? > > I surely hope there is a solution!! If not, I will be up the rest of the > night retyping...thank you. > > Carol > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >