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From: "William T. Flight" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Accidental Deletions - Help!!! (enhanced)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:47:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDKEBFFDAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Hi Cheri, Murray,

I've changed the dialog prompt when selecting the "Delete Main Record"
toolbar button to a stronger warning: instead of "Please Confirm", it now
comes up with "Are you sure?", and plays the warning sound.

--Bill

William T. Flight
http://www.thoughtfulcreations.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheri Casper [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:28 AM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Accidental Deletions - Help!!!
>
> Murray - I think we have all been in this boat at one time or
> another. I
> wish there was a second warning message in BIG LETTERS saying
> "Are you sure
> you want to delete this individual and their entire record.
> I just open up
> a backup side-by-side and reenter. Wish there was a magic wand.
>
> CheriC
>
> PS - Cats. You gotta to love them. I have one who likes to
> "dance" on the
> scanner sending 20 or more copies of whatever is on the glass
> directly to
> the printer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murray Lynn [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:46 AM
> To:
> Subject: [GENBOX] Accidental Deletions - Help!!!
>
>
> At some stage in the last week, one of my principle ancestors has been
> deleted taking with him dozens of events entered over a long
> period. It
> is VERY easy to do this even with the warning message - the
> main suspect
> is one of the cats who loves to walk across the keyboard!
>
> This wouldn't be a big deal if there was a way to recover,
> but as far as
> I can see the deleted records cannot be restored or copied
> from a backup
> and so the only way to restore is to painstakingly re-enter all of the
> data, loosing the ID numbers in the process.
>
> If there is a way anyone has discovered to recover, PLEASE
> let me know!
>
> Thanks
>
> Murray
>
>
>
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