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General => Technical Help => Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation => Topic started by: Lal on Friday 27 September 13 00:05 BST (UK)
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My blood just ran cold as I thought my whole tree had disappeared...
I use FTM 2008. Tonight I tried to merge two people as I found out a brother and sister on one branch had respectively married a grandaughter and a son on another*. I backed up as requested and found all the relationship info in the whole tree had gone.
So I tried to restore the backup, as I'd only entered in a couple of baptisms I could easily re-enter. It didn't work. :'( After ten minutes of fear, I found an old copy from this evening in the recycle bin and it seems to have worked.
I suppose, then, that I cannot merge two people in this way?
*Margaret R and Richard R are siblings. Margaret R married Robert M, Richard R married Jane S. Jane S is Robert M's niece.
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. . . . . AND you have backed up since AND stored the backup on another device after renaming/identifiying the backup?
. . . . . AND you are going to do that everytime you update your tree?
You can always delete (thin out) backups, you can never have too many.
Ray
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