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From: "Alfred Eller" <>
Subject: [ELLER] Re: [FO] FO8 Questions
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:02:40 -0500

-----Original Message-----
Keith Thompson Wrote


>The best way that I have found so far for the phantom source is to
>export a gedcom (after having d&d the individuals into the database).
>Now open the gedcom in an ASCII editor (notepad may not be big
enough.
>I use a replacement that allows unlimited size of ASCII file) and
Search
>for SOUR @S0@ (at least in mine it was a "0" source) and do a replace
or
>delete. Then bring the gedcom back into FO and the phantom will be
>gone.
>
>Hoping for the patch soon as I have a couple of databases that I have
>worked on that I want to d&d into my main data, but after the first
>go-round, will patiently wait for the fix before doing it again.
>
>Keith Thompson


I know that drag and drop is a new feature, available in FOW-8.0. For
now it has a little problem with phantom sources. Why use it if you
have to do all that? Did you read what you wrote Kieth? It sounds
awefully complicated to me, unless you did the damage before you
realized there was a problem.
Why go to all that trouble when it is so simple to do a GEDCOM export
then an import. You won't have to do any search and replace or
anything.

Good Luck, Alfred

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