Deleting a Connection

[Peter Sherman]

How do you delete a connection?

[Bob White]

If you do a Quickview of the connected person, you will discover a remove button. First, however, it is suggested that you do a find in the manual on "Connections in the Family View" as there are several points you should review.

[Peter Sherman]

Thanks, Bob. I've looked through the manual section on Connections pretty thoroughly (I think).

For context, the connection I want to delete connected two "people" whom I thought might be the same person, and now that I know they are, I've merged them. The note that contained the connection was deleted in the merge - I suspect I might have been able to delete the connection if I'd opened a Quickview of the connection from within the note before performing the merge, so it seems I've missed that chance. No harm being done, but would be nice to eliminate it now that it serves no purpose. (I did open a Quickview from the sidebar, but no luck there, no reference to the connection at all.)

[Gregg]

Hi Peter,

Try choosing File > Rebuild Cache Files from Reunion's main menubar to see if the connection goes away.

[Peter Sherman]

Thanks for the tip, Gregg. I've tried that twice, along with quitting and restarting Reunion, but it doesn't have any effect.

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

"The note that contained the connection was deleted in the merge"

Notes from a merge are often put into their own "Merge Notes" note. It doesn't put all the notes from both records into one note field. Not easily seen if you don't know this and are not looking for it. Merging two people should not eliminate any data.

[Peter Sherman]

Bingo! Thanks, Blaise, for this extra tip. I took another look at the merged person, and saw there were two of the same type of note (I'd missed that before), and the second held the link I'd used to create the connection. I was able to right-click to see a "Remove Link" option, which took care of that, then rebuilt the cache files as Gregg had suggested, and that removed the round, blue connection icon in the record that had been linked originally. Wonderful!

Thanks all three for your suggestions.