Re: [Gramps-users] Gramps-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 8

[Doug B. <dou...@gm...>]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Howard Close <how...@go...>wrote:

> > From: Olivier Pierard <o_p...@ho...>
> > Subject: [Gramps-users] Is tehre a clean way to remove all
> >        automatically   estimated dates
> > To: <gra...@li...>
> >
> > Dear Gramps-users,
> >
> > I recently tried the tool to automatically estimate born and death dates.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I noticed that these dates were sometimes far from the
> > reality.  I didn't have a look yet to source code but I guess
> > there are estimated from one date (e.g.: father birthdate) instead of
> > an average of several ones (e.g.: parents birthdate + wedding +
> > children dates).
> >
> > Anyway, is there an easy way to remove them.  I had to remove them
> > one by one by removing corresponding events.  If there is no easy
> > solution, enabling to remove several events in the same time would be
> > nice ?
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
> > Olivier
>
> I can't help but I totally agree. This is an awful tool - it produces
> dates that are sometimes a century away from the true date. What use
> is that? Unless you are aware of this it can throw you off the right
> path in an alarming fashion. I wish that I had never used it.
>
> Howard
>

Howard, you can easily remove the dates by running the tool again, checking
the remove checkbox, but unchecking the add checkboxes.

You can help make this tool better by sending us information on the
situation that didn't work very well. That way, the developers can realize
that (a) people would like such a tool, (b) help focus what we work on, (c)
and we can help narrow down what is wrong.

-Doug