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Offline Lal

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FTM 2008 Merging nightmare
« on: Friday 27 September 13 00:05 BST (UK) »
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.
West Lancashire - Leatherbarrow, Hunter, Sherman, Formby, Caunce, Cookson, Wright, Finch, Roughley, Sutch, Almond, Parr, Lea, Smith, Wignal, Marsh, Lovelady
Liverpool - Cottam, Candeland, Stewart, Breen, Owens, Wiseman, Johnson, Cross
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Co. Durham - Palmer, Adamson
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Re: FTM 2008 Merging nightmare
« Reply #1 on: Friday 27 September 13 06:54 BST (UK) »

. . . . . 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.

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