* Merging 2 ged files

[BillFraser]

I have 2 ged files, both created in FH, that I want to merge. Each has around 1000 records and there is significant overlap of people across the two files. This morning I used the Merge feature of FH4 and after 4 hours of editing the suggestions I proceeded with the actual merge. This appeared to go ok, I got the Merge Results Window, but then FH crashed and I lost all the work.
Two questions:-

a) Is there any known problem here and how can I avoud it in future?

b) Is there any way of easily merging a large file in stages, so that you can spread the work over several sessions?

Thanks

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[tatewise]

Cannot comment on the Merge crash but there is an Article about it from 2002:
Articles > Bugs > Merging two GEDCOM files
http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cg ... news&id=29

As an aside, you did remember to check each tab Individual, Family, Note, Source, etc.

Merge in stages is not possible, but there is a Wish List item for it:
Wish List > Ref 113 Merge/Compare Save Restore function
http://www.fhug.org.uk/wishlist/wldispl ... lwlref=113

You could perhaps split one file into smaller GEDCOM files and merge the subsets one at a time.

[BillFraser]

I didn't actually check the other tabs - would this actually cause a crash? (I accept that had the merge worked, some of my data would have got screwed up.)

I actually have now tried merging two test versions of my files. I accepted all the suggestions, merged, got the merge report, than a crash. This happened consistently every time I tried it. However after I simply explored the other tabs (didn't do any processing there) and tried to merge my individuals again it worked fine, no crash. And now I cannot reproduce the crash (on my test files) whether or not I venture into the other tabs.

A bit of a mystery!

[tatewise]

Please keep the test files that cause the crash as Calico may find them very useful.
The fact that inspecting all the tabs prevents the crash is also very helpful.