I just installed the Reunion 10.0.2 update alongside Reunion 9.0c, and I have OS 10.7.4 on my MacBookPro on the Lion partition, which I use most of the time. The second partition runs Snow Leopard, where Reunion 9.0c and a couple of older versions reside, along with several old programs I still use regularly (Word, Excel, Filemaker).
With version 10 - WHICH I LOVE! - I decided to clean up my sources by number, beginning with Source 1. I hit a snag on Source 129. Most of my sources have some text in the Free-Form Text section, and some include the complete text of family materials that I have transcribed and copied/pasted there. I must have found a big one, because when I tried to make a one-letter addition to one word in my grandmother's writing, something popped up that said there was a 30000 character limit in this field.
I copied/pasted the entire content of Source 129's Free-Form Text to a TextEdit document, and looked at it in Pages, Bean, and Word. The character count slightly differed in each, but they all were about 33,000. The funny thing is, I played around on the Snow Leopard partition with a copy of an old Reunion 9 file from 2008 (the year I pasted in that long text), running Reunion 9. I copied the same text several times into the Free-Form section, originally 13 pages, but now including multiple lines of "XXXX" as well, such that when I put it all into TextEdit and viewed in Bean, there are now over 286,000 characters on 119 pages! In Reunion 9, it saves correctly and retains it.
Is there a reason why the Free-Form size is restricted in Reunion 10 when it appears it was not limited in Reunion 9? I do occasionally want to add to or make corrections in the Sources fields, and now I cannot in version 10. I never used to link anything to a Source, but now that it is easier than ever, I may start linking instead!
Susan D. Engle
With version 10 - WHICH I LOVE! - I decided to clean up my sources by number, beginning with Source 1. I hit a snag on Source 129. Most of my sources have some text in the Free-Form Text section, and some include the complete text of family materials that I have transcribed and copied/pasted there. I must have found a big one, because when I tried to make a one-letter addition to one word in my grandmother's writing, something popped up that said there was a 30000 character limit in this field.
I copied/pasted the entire content of Source 129's Free-Form Text to a TextEdit document, and looked at it in Pages, Bean, and Word. The character count slightly differed in each, but they all were about 33,000. The funny thing is, I played around on the Snow Leopard partition with a copy of an old Reunion 9 file from 2008 (the year I pasted in that long text), running Reunion 9. I copied the same text several times into the Free-Form section, originally 13 pages, but now including multiple lines of "XXXX" as well, such that when I put it all into TextEdit and viewed in Bean, there are now over 286,000 characters on 119 pages! In Reunion 9, it saves correctly and retains it.
Is there a reason why the Free-Form size is restricted in Reunion 10 when it appears it was not limited in Reunion 9? I do occasionally want to add to or make corrections in the Sources fields, and now I cannot in version 10. I never used to link anything to a Source, but now that it is easier than ever, I may start linking instead!
Susan D. Engle