* Question about excluding NOTE records on export

[BillH]

I'm trying to create a GEDCOM file from a project using the File > Import/Export > Export > GEDCOM file... dialog. I want the ouput file to not contain any NOTE information. To this end I selected the box Note records under Exclude. This didn't work, I still got all my note records in the output file. These were shown in the GEDCOM file as both 1 NOTE and 2 NOTE.

Is it possible to exclude the NOTE information from the output file using this dialog?

I apologize if this is answered somewhere... I couldn't find anything here on the FHUG website or in the program help.

Thanks,

Bill

[Jane]

Remember Note records are not the same as local notes. The exclude only removes Note Records and not local notes.

It's a fairly easy job to remove them using a plugin once you have exported the file, do you write plugins? If not this one should work for you:

Strip Notes From File

Please double check the result as I just knocked it up quickly this morning.

[PeterR]

The Split Tree Helper has an option to Delete all note fields within records.

[BillH]

Jane,

The plugin did get rid of all the 1 NOTE records, but didn't get rid of the 2 NOTE records.

Peter,

The split tree helper did the trick. I forgot all about this as I wasn't really trying to split my tree. It worked great.

Thanks to both of you,

Bill