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Pause GEDCOM import for inactive managers

Job Waterreus

August 11, 2023 14:03

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When a user is declared inactive, pause any still running GEDCOM imports automatically and warn the user  by mail that his/her GEDCOM imports have been paused due to inactivity and can be resumed or cancelled from the GEDCOM page (Give user the possibility to resume paused GEDCOM imports from the GEDCOM page [don't do that automatically when the user becomes active again])

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  Itai Meshulam August 11, 2023 14:28

  +1

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  Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) - on walkabout🇦🇺 August 12, 2023 05:53

  I raised this with Geni on 23 January 2022 - still waiting for a response

  Hi Mike

  I was wondering if Geni would consider pausing gedcoms from users who have not logged on for a long time and then restarting them when the user logs in next. Ideally it would be good to pause it after 1 month of not logging in.
  When large gedcoms are loaded for non active users there is no way for users to communicate with the user to ask for sources for discrepancies so it causes frustration for active users as well as a lot of work to merge in the duplicates with no help from the user who has created the new profiles.
  When the user next logs in then the gedcom could restart.

  As an example https://www.geni.com/people/Christopher-Schmidt/6000000023502466184 has not logged on Geni since January 2021 yet his very large gedcom is still loading. His gedcom has a lot of duplicates in it as well as really obvious inaccuracies (children with completely different names to the parents etc). This results in other users having to clean up the issues from his gedcom. It also means that every profile created will get a new profile manager as soon as inactive manager gets pushed meaning that a relative of his will inherit all the issues with no way of getting any information.

  Thanks
  Leanne

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  Karianne (Grønningsæter) Fog Heen January 30, 2024 17:42

  This is half a year ago now, nothing happens?

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  Job Waterreus January 30, 2024 21:20

  It may be good to only let a user to start an import when the user has logged out and in again at least once, so there is a good change the user knows how to logon again to check the status of the import.

  It would also help to give a bit more information about the import process on the GEDCOM page (and/or provide a link there to that info)

  Edited by Job Waterreus January 30, 2024 21:21