I entered family information fast and furiously for a week and then went out of town. I discovered a family website with connections to my family. I thought I would enter the data and then go back and document it.
I posted earlier about the back up problem, well, that was minor in some ways.
I discovered the program has been storing my file on my c hard drive. I always use the external drive and assumed the program was opening the file on the external drive. WRONG!
At this point I'm confused. I don't think I can explain what all I've done to cause the confusion, but I've done a great job of it.
After I discovered the 'main' files on the c drive I backed up the two I determined to be the most recent and tried a merge. I fell asleep during the merge and the computer also went to sleep. Big mistake.
Today I tried the merge again and as soon as I spent an hour and a half going through flagged entries the Windows shut the program down. I have to assume the files are damaged.
I restored the backups and re-backed them up. I'm trying the merge again. If it doesn't work this time I may want to consider re-entering the data for a third time.
The first time was on one file and had no sources other than the family tree.
I could not find the file with the week's worth of data entry. (Damn, I wish I would have realized at THIS point about the c hard drive!) So, the second time was on a different file and entered with sources but I didn't finish entering the data as it took longer since I documented as I entered.
The third time? Well, I'm hoping there is no third time. Please merge work!
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