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From: Glenn Gilbert <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish List
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:36:11 -0700
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Another cause for "unused" places not being removed using optimize might
be hidden characters in any place field. Recently I spent some time
cleaning up my MPL adding missing counties, using the web look up
feature to find the county name, I did a copy/paste to the county field.
I used a text macro to add the word County, but since the text macro
feature strips the leading space, I used ALT+255County. Although they
"look" the same, they are different.
As it should TMG treats ALT+255 as a different character than - space -
. I was able to filter for those places where I had used the ALT+255
character, and go back and remove the ALT+255 and replace it with a
regular space.

Glenn Gilbert

wrote:

>
>In a message dated 4/13/2005 10:21:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
>John,
>That is what optimize is for. Just run it and if a place isn't used,
>doesn't have a start or stop date, or anything in the short place or comment
>field, it will be deleted.
>
>Teresa Ghee Elliott
>Rutherford Co., TN cemeteries:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/
>TMG sentences:
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html
>Organized genealogy
>
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>-----Original Message-----
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>Subject: Re: [TMG] Wish List
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>I occasionally (frequently perhaps) enter an address incorrectly and then
>go
>back and correct it. I find it a nuisance that the incorrect address is
>maintained in the master place list until I edit the list and manually
>correct
>it. Is there a way to globally remove unused places?? If not, I sure
>wish
>there were.
>John Heard
>
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>I would have thought so but I have run optimize dozens of times and it has
>not remoed unused places. Version 5 didn't do that nor does Version 6.
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