Gedcom

[Jane Davies]

I want to export a gedcom file that includes sources but not the source details. I've checked the manual but can't see any way to do this. Is it possible?
Thanks
Jane

[Jane Davies]

Re: Gedcom

Can anyone answer this? In the 'source detail' box I have a variety of comments, some of which I don't want to export. I can see how to exclude event memos but this has me stumped. I expect I'm missing something obvious.
Thanks
Jane

[mjashby]

Re: Gedcom

Jane,

I think you would have to use the sensitivity delimiters {} around each appropriate entry in your Reunion file and then invoke the sensitivity option in your Gedcom Export. Just call up the Help File and search for "Sensitivity".

The only alternative would be to directly edit the GEDCOM in a plain text editor to remove the sensitive comments, but that can be tricky.

Mervyn

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Gedcom

Can anyone answer this? In the 'source detail' box I have a variety of comments, some of which I don't want to export. I can see how to exclude event memos but this has me stumped. I expect I'm missing something obvious.
Thanks
Jane

Jane,

Not sure if this is what you want. Did not try a report or GEDCOM.

Look at the Mac menu bar. Click on Reunion. Go to Preferences > Report > Options > Source.

When you click on "Source", the right side has a box for Citation Detail. One of the choices is "Ignore". You might experiment with this to see if it does what you want.

Hope this helps,
Kaye

[Frank]

Re: Gedcom

I think you would have to use the sensitivity delimiters...

Sensitivity applies to certain fields; but not the citation detail field. (See the manual.)

[Frank]

Re: Gedcom

...Preferences > Reports > Source.
When you click on "Source", the right side has a box for Citation Detail. One of the choices is "Ignore". You might experiment with this to see if it does what you want...

This option applies to reports (not GEDCOM files).

[Frank]

Re: Gedcom

I want to export a gedcom file that includes sources but not the source details. I've checked the manual but can't see any way to do this. Is it possible?

You can't export a GEDCOM file with sources but without the contents of the citation detail field (assuming there are people in the file being exported).

[Jane Davies]

Re: Gedcom

Thanks to all who took the trouble to reply. I can see I'm going to have to have a think about this....

Jane

[Tom Robinson]

Re: Gedcom

It looks like you could edit the GEDCOM with a text editor and remove all lines that start with '3 PAGE '.

[John Meara]

Re: Gedcom

It looks like you could edit the GEDCOM with a text editor and remove all lines that start with '3 PAGE '.

I have edited GEDCOM files with great success. Whether on a Mac or PC, the text editing program will have "Find" and "Find and Replace" menu items.

While it is simple to use these text editing functions to work systematically through the file to remove entire lines or strings of text, great caution must be exercised not to inadvertently remove other content (attention to detail!).

[Dennis J. Cunniff]

Re: Gedcom

While it is simple to use these text editing functions to work systematically through the file to remove entire lines or strings of text, great caution must be exercised not to inadvertently remove other content (attention to detail!).

True enough, but this one is pretty simple, a one-time find/replace using GREP. For example, in TextWrangler if you search for:

^3 PAGE.*$

and replace it with nothing, you'll eliminate all lines beginning with 3 PAGE, and only those lines.

(Other GREP implementations may use slightly different incantations.)

[John Bayle]

Re: Gedcom

I have edited GEDCOM files with great success. Whether on a Mac or PC, the text editing program will have "Find" and "Find and Replace" menu items.

While it is simple to use these text editing functions to work systematically through the file to remove entire lines or strings of text, great caution must be exercised not to inadvertently remove other content (attention to detail!).

At the risk of being obvious, before editing the GEDCOM file with a text editor, create
a backup of the GEDCOM file and even put it in another directory. I have in the past also had great success editing GEDCOM files. They are only text files after all and
if you invest a little time to learn what the tags mean and how the file is structured,
it's not hard to do at all.