Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Good thing for backups

Today I was working on synchronizing my tree on Ancestry to my tree in my genealogy program. It was going well, then I started to get errors. It told me to run the "check and repair" tool, and that kept hanging when it got to "checking for event problems." I forced it to quit, opened it again, then looked at the events. Almost all of my events were missing. The new imports I did yesterday were there, but not the rest.

Of course, I'm getting clever-er by the day and made a backup immediately before starting to import new gedcoms from the interweb. So now I'm importing the two gedcoms from yesterday into an empty database, merging and fixing them there, and then importing them into a COPY of the backup from yesterday. (I bet you would have thought I would import into my backup, that would defeat the purpose! Keeping a clean copy that works is very important!)

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