Source Types when moving people

[NeilMcD 0]

If I move a person from one data set to another, TMG

copies many (but not all, and I can't see a pattern)

Source Types to the second data set - irrespective of

whether or not that Source Type is used in the

person's tags, or indeed in the originating data set

at all.

 

I end up with a lot of duplicate source types

(identically named, not for example Census and Census1

which I have seen at some stage), These don't

disappear when I optimise, so I have to go through the

Source Type List and remove each duplicate, one at a

time.

 

Is this the designed and expected behaviour? I would

have thought it reasonable to copy the Source Types

that are used in the person's tags, as they may have

been customised differently in the two data sets. But

I don't see the need to copy unused Source Types.

 

On the last occasion, I was moving the person from DS2

to DS3, because he (a new person) was incorrectly

added to DS2 when only DS3 was enabled. Might this

quirk have something to do with it? It doesn't always

happen.

 

Neil