HELP! I think I've gone back and restored to a GOOD database, but no idea what I did the break my original one!!!! All was well (as far as I know) when I backed up late last night. Always start by doing a 'restore' in the morning . then started adding info and making corrections to Nelson and Emma. Emma has a possible different name so added an 'alt name' .. Nelson appeared to be a dup so merged him with the other Nelson w/no wife. In my original database Nelson was #9218 .. Suddenly switching to a pedigree view I noticed I have 5 GENERATIONS of Nelson & Emma ---- each being the parents of Nelson and not just NELSON himself . hope you can picture that pedigree! Suddenly Nelson is now #10214. Created a gedcom and imported it to a new database .. Still 5 GENERATIONS of them . Nelson now #10139. Had no error messages doing the gedcom and no problem (it appeared) in importing that gedcom .. Would assume it was not corrupt based on that! Restored last night's backup again ... ONLY one NELSON & EMMA and Nelson is #9218 ...... Cautiously think I'm ok except for losing 2 hours of entering from this morning, but can anyone tell me WHAT HAPPENED and/or what I DID ????? Pat

1 Everytime you create or restorer a database it will change numbers unless you ask it to maintain the same numbers. 2 Stop what you are doing and go to an older backup and restore. View it to see how bad it looks. IF bad too delete it and that backup. 3 Forget numbers for now. Get you a good working database. You can ask it to keep the numbers when restoring. Use a different name for your database each timed you do these restores. You will lose some work, but from what I am seeing (blind) you have one person as his own Father, Grandfather and possibly 3 generations more.IN SHORT, A MESS. 4 Once you get a working database you feel is good, then back this up with its new name. Getting rid of the backups you know are bad will leave you some possible good ones. 5 Work only in the new good database, Not sure why you are restoring each session. RM will open the last database you were working on if you indicate that is what you want under Tools/File. 6 If you have been restoring on top of an older database than that was your problem. These are best suggestions I have. Hows far back you need to go is in question, but take your time. Time spent now will save problems later. 7 If you want to restore again to check if current one is better, USE A NEW NAME. Also each database and backup is dated by RM for you. Database at the bottom of screen; Backups in the name. 8 You can open the 2nd database side by side with current one, either by having 2 databases side by side or using RM 7's new "database compare"' 9 GOOD LUCK! We all have done something like that at one time or another. Jon On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Pat McGrath via < [email protected]> wrote: > HELP! I think I've gone back and restored to a GOOD database, but no idea > what I did the break my original one!!!! > > > > All was well (as far as I know) when I backed up late last night. Always > start by doing a 'restore' in the morning . then started adding info and > making corrections to Nelson and Emma. Emma has a possible different name > so added an 'alt name' .. Nelson appeared to be a dup so merged him with > the > other Nelson w/no wife. In my original database Nelson was #9218 .. > > > > Suddenly switching to a pedigree view I noticed I have 5 GENERATIONS of > Nelson & Emma ---- each being the parents of Nelson and not just NELSON > himself . hope you can picture that pedigree! Suddenly Nelson is now > #10214. > > > > Created a gedcom and imported it to a new database .. Still 5 GENERATIONS > of > them . Nelson now #10139. Had no error messages doing the gedcom and no > problem (it appeared) in importing that gedcom .. Would assume it was not > corrupt based on that! > > > > Restored last night's backup again ... ONLY one NELSON & EMMA and Nelson is > #9218 ...... > > > > Cautiously think I'm ok except for losing 2 hours of entering from this > morning, but can anyone tell me WHAT HAPPENED and/or what I DID ????? > > > > Pat > > > > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- -- *Jon P Czarowitz*, NHC, GF, GGF, IGC Hempel Genealogist since 1986 Retired International Genealogist for http://www.clancunninghamintl.org RootsMagic 7 http://www.rootsmagic.com CUNNINGHAMS TOGETHER - CUNNINGHAMS WORLDWIDE!