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From: "Phil DeSilva" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Excessive time to create a Journal Report
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:02:53 -0500
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Sorry Astrid. NO FILTER. Journal Report for one person by ID#

Thanks
Phil


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Astrid Kranzbuhler" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 07:23 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Excessive time to create a Journal Report


> Phil wrote:
>> I started creating an ancestor Journal report last nite about
>> midnite. It's
>> now 14 hours later and the report still hasn't finished.
>
> [snip]
>
>> I brought up
>> my email this morning the window stopped updating (which is
>> normal) but at
>> that time it had done 50 generations (that took almost 7 1/2
>> hours) and was
>> showing 230,000 somethings and 310,000 total people. That's
>> over 10 times
>> the size of the dataset it's drawing from. Something doesn't
>> seem right.
>>
>> Every hour or so I get a flurry of disk activity and the CPU
>> usage drops to
>> near zero for a few seconds and then climbs back up to 95% plus.
>>
>> What's going on??? Why the excessive time? Why so many people?
>> Why...?????
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> I strongly suspect that you've set the filter for the report to include
> each
> person as a progenitor and therefore there will be 'new' journal reports
> for
> each person with all their descendants included again .. and again .. and
> again ... you said there should be 4000 persons ... imagine 4000 separate
> journal reports with the respective descendants included in each.
>
> You'll want to set the filter to just the top of line progenitor and do
> *not* select 'Spouse, Ancestors or Descendants' at the bottom of the
> filter.
>
>
> Filter:
> ID Number ... Equals ... (ID number of top of line progenitor) ... End
>
> If that doesn't do what you want, please tell us what your filter is and
> what you're trying to accomplish ...
>
> Astrid
>
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