Good thought, Marc -- I did actually think of that earlier, but forgot about it when I sent the last email.  If no success in other ways, I'll look more closely at that -- should be fairly easy for me, as I do not use sentences, just have to insert the dummy sentence in each role for the 2 new tags. Lindsay ----------Original message---------- From: Marc Erlitz <[email protected]> To: The Master Genealogist Rootsweb Email List <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 24/1/18 00:12 Subject: Re: [TMG] Disappearing role sentences > Lindsay , > > Why not create 2 new tag types, say Court2 and Image2? Recreate all the sentences you have previously defined for these tags. Then use TMG Utilities to change all instances of Court and Image to the new tag types. When all is done, delete the original tag types and then rename the new ones back to their original names. Especially if you do not have too many sentences defined for these 2 tag types, it might be worth the trouble. > > Marc > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: TMG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Lindsay Graham >> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 10:47 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [TMG] Disappearing role sentences >> >> John Cardinal, you have provided wonderful help -- a thank you seems so >> inadequate, but thank you nevertheless. >> >> The problem seems to be partially fixed, but not fully.  After using the >> repaired files you sent, I went through the following sequence: >> >> 1. made the limited site in SS -- 15 Role not found errors, which were all for >> the custom tags Image and Court (ie, those for the standard tags Baptism and >> Engagement did not recur); 2. made an SS site of all people in my project -- >> 102 (the maximum) Role not found errors, all for Baptism, Engagement, Court >> and Image tag types; 3. went through the Baptism and Engagement tag types >> in TMG and successfully added the dummy sentences to each role; 4. went >> through the Court and Image tag types in TMG and tried unsuccessfully to add >> the dummy sentences to each role -- as before, they disappeared as soon as I >> exited the Roles and Sentences tab, although they remain in the Sentence and >> Witness Sentence fields of the previous screen; 5. repeated step 1 -- same >> result as above; 6. repeated step 2 -- only 58 Role not found errors, all for >> the custom Court and Image tag types (ie, the Baptism and Engagement errors >> did not recur). >> >> All this suggests that John successfully identified the problem for the standard >> Baptism and Engagement tag types, but may not have fixed (or tried to fix) the >> custom Court and Image tag types.  Is there anything you can do with that, >> John?  Can you work with the file I sent you or should I send another similar? >> >> Questions that occur to me are: >> >> * did the corruptions in the tag type entries arise from something I did? or >> was it just another unsolved computer mystery? >> * any idea how/why it arose in 4 tag types and no others? >> * is there anything I can do to prevent the problem recurring in the future? >> >> Lindsay (in a sweltering summer Canberra) >> >> >> <snip earlier messages>