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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: [TMG] Validate File Integrity - how to fix?
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2002 18:32:32 -0500
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At 01:02 PM 6/2/02 -0400, Jim Byram wrote:
>Darrell,
>
> > >The problem is that if you add an event to TMG5, give it Sort Date
>but NOT
> > >a date, and then run Validate File Integrity, then it will erase
>that sort
> > >date. Note that the problem does NOT affect any events that were
>imported
> > >from TMG4...
>
>Note Bob's last statement.
>
>Like you, I have many tags (mainly Name-Marr tags but also others)
>with no date and a sort date in my TMG4 data set and in that same data
>set in a project after import into TMG5. I have run Validate File
>Integrity on this TMG5 project dozens of times. All of the tags having
>no date and a sort date still have their sort date.
>
>As far as I'm aware, this situation ONLY affects data entered via the
>keyboard in TMG5.
>
>Jim

Hi, Jim:

I understood what Bob said. I did not suggest that tags imported from TMG 4
were in danger of being corrupted, because he said clearly that they were
not. My problem is in *separating* those many tags from the few recently
entered tags that, in respect to dates and sort dates, ought to look
exactly the same, so I can fix them.

You will, I hope, forgive my anxiety over why there might -- even *could*
-- be a difference between a tag's data structure based on whether it were
imported or entered directly. What is going on that might make a
distinction? On the other hand, I don't wish to make too much of it either.
The reported "damage" is hardly earth-shattering. My level of anxiety is
about that of trying to go to sleep with a mosquito in the room. Will I
wake up with a bite on the end of my nose?

Also, I am having trouble with the most recent beta of "Second Site" that
seems to be specific to my TMG 5 data set. I can't help but raise the
hypothesis that the two problems are related, since I don't know of
anything else that would distinguish me from the other beta testers.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois



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