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From: Allen Mellen <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Still encountering
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 09:41:36 -0400
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0, Judy McAuliffe wrote:

>I thank all of the people who have publicly and privately sent me
>suggestions on how to get rid of "Wilfred" the ghost. I ran all the
>maintenance options......reindex, optimize, repair.......Wilfred remained
>a problem.
>
>So, I took someone else's suggestion and simply deleted him because I only
>had a birth and no family for him, and it seemed like an easy
>solution. So Wilfred is gone, but I am still having strange encounters of
>a new kind. Now when I work on my source list.....deleting unused
>sources....and then come back to the person view (of anyone....it
>happens to anyone whose person view I have up), the
>Principal person of the person view is replaced with ?? (leaving only
>their birth & death years in ( ). When you click on the "Subject", and
>bring up the Tag entry box, the person's name appears, and when you click
>back there are only ??
>
>Someone else asked about bookmarks.....I have cleared all bookmarks and
>the problem remains. Also I ran a check for duplicate people and cleared
>up any issues there......and the problem remains.
>
>This is crazy stuff and annoying at the very least.....how can I fix
>this??? Any other ideas????

One technique I have succeeded with when my data set has had "ghost people"
is to copy the data set using the Secondary Output feature of the List of
People. The focus is all people and the secondary output is Create New
Data set.

Allen

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