Kathy: From my experience, once you start having internal problems in a section of the .paf database (such as notes), it will get worse until you run Check/Repair and fix it. The GEDCOM export/import is a variation -- it can fix some things that Check/Fix cannot solve (but check/repair fixes some things that GEDCOM export/import just throws away). I would always try Check/Fix first, and if that can't fix it, then I'd try GEDCOM. You might try two other tools. Ancestral Quest also works with a PAF database, and over the last couple of years, it's Check/Repair feature has been enhanced to fix some things that PAF's Check/Repair cannot fix. Also, FamilyInsight is a tool that works with a PAF database, and it has its own way of resolving internal problems in a PAF database. Both of these products have 60-day free trials, so you could use them to try to fix your issue with notes at no cost -- at least for 60 days. Gaylon On 11/5/2010 1:25 PM, Kathy Campbell wrote: > PAF's notes are straight text. Formatting codes are interpreted as text, so > I wouldn't expect that to be the problem. Missing people and missing notes > sometimes result from using two different versions of the same database, but > you would probably have noticed that. > > Your problem could come from a corrupted copy of the software. If so, > Removing and Installing the software would solve the problem. > > > > I think, though, that some of the codes used in certain databases online may > not be text. I have found that if I do want to cut and paste something > directly from the net, if I paste it into Notepad first, then into PAF, then > I don't get as many errors. > > I was worried about the software, but I was afraid to reinstall it. > > Thanks. > K > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

But, if you do use export/inport/new name file, you will probably "lose" the relevant information FamilyInsight saves about synced people in your file, and possibly matches..So consider that... Regards, Fred -----Original Message----- From: paf-5-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paf-5-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gaylon Findlay Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:08 PM To: paf-5-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Notes Errors Kathy: From my experience, once you start having internal problems in a section of the .paf database (such as notes), it will get worse until you run Check/Repair and fix it. The GEDCOM export/import is a variation -- it can fix some things that Check/Fix cannot solve (but check/repair fixes some things that GEDCOM export/import just throws away). I would always try Check/Fix first, and if that can't fix it, then I'd try GEDCOM. You might try two other tools. Ancestral Quest also works with a PAF database, and over the last couple of years, it's Check/Repair feature has been enhanced to fix some things that PAF's Check/Repair cannot fix. Also, FamilyInsight is a tool that works with a PAF database, and it has its own way of resolving internal problems in a PAF database. Both of these products have 60-day free trials, so you could use them to try to fix your issue with notes at no cost -- at least for 60 days. Gaylon

Check/Repair works best if it finds an error? (g) In my case, there was nothing wrong with the database -- just data I had put into the NOTES vanished, sometimes in mid-sentence. :( Cheryl Gaylon Findlay wrote: > Kathy: > > From my experience, once you start having internal problems in a > section of the .paf database (such as notes), it will get worse until > you run Check/Repair and fix it. The GEDCOM export/import is a variation > -- it can fix some things that Check/Fix cannot solve (but check/repair > fixes some things that GEDCOM export/import just throws away). I would > always try Check/Fix first, and if that can't fix it, then I'd try GEDCOM. > > You might try two other tools. > > Ancestral Quest also works with a PAF database, and over the last couple > of years, it's Check/Repair feature has been enhanced to fix some things > that PAF's Check/Repair cannot fix. Also, FamilyInsight is a tool that > works with a PAF database, and it has its own way of resolving internal > problems in a PAF database. Both of these products have 60-day free > trials, so you could use them to try to fix your issue with notes at no > cost -- at least for 60 days. > > Gaylon > > > On 11/5/2010 1:25 PM, Kathy Campbell wrote: >> PAF's notes are straight text. Formatting codes are interpreted as text, so >> I wouldn't expect that to be the problem. Missing people and missing notes >> sometimes result from using two different versions of the same database, but >> you would probably have noticed that. >> >> Your problem could come from a corrupted copy of the software. If so, >> Removing and Installing the software would solve the problem. >> >> >> >> I think, though, that some of the codes used in certain databases online may >> not be text. I have found that if I do want to cut and paste something >> directly from the net, if I paste it into Notepad first, then into PAF, then >> I don't get as many errors. >> >> I was worried about the software, but I was afraid to reinstall it. >> >> Thanks. >> K