Events/Attributes/Links

[lkj...@gmail.com]

Does anyone know a way to detach multiple events/attributes/links at one time; without going to the tree menu over and over and over?

[John Nairn]

Sorry, but there isn't. It is on my list. My initial assumption was that once you add events you are unlikely to delete them (unless you made a mistake in which case that is normally only deleting one event). But I realize one might occasionally want to delete more than one.

Two options you always have in GEDitCOM II:

1. Delete them in the raw GEDCOM editor:

a. Select the record in the index window

b. Make sure GEDCOM editor is visible (choose View -> Show Source Editor)

c. Delete events/attribute/links in the GEDCOM data in the source editor. An event will begin with line level 1.

        Delete that line and all subsequent lines that are higher then 1. Stop deleting at the next line beginning

        in 1. For example in GEDCOM data

          1 FAMS @F10@

           1 BIRT

           2 DATE 21 Jun 1982

           2 PLAC Paddington, London, England

           2 ADDR St. Mary's Hospital

           2 NOTE @N24@

           2 _GPS (51.5174, -0.1741)

           1 FAMC @F3@

       To delete the birth event delete from line "1 BIRT" to line "2 _GPS (51.5174, -0.1741)"

d. Deleting attributes is similar

e. Deleting links is trickier. The same methods work, but the links are harder to identify.

2. Write a script. This option will work best if the events/attribute/links to delete are all the same kind and it can delete in selected records or all records at once. But this method means you know how to write AppleScript or Python scripts or at least to modify an existing script.

On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:50 AM, lkj...@gmail.com wrote:

Does anyone know a way to detach multiple events/attributes/links at one time; without going to the tree menu over and over and over?

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[Loren Jost]

Thanks, John.

I had never used the source editor. Now I have, and it solves my problem quite easily.

Loren Jost

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