I am currently trying to Import a Gedcom file into TMG, and it says it has a missing header. I had a quick look at the file in notepad, and to be honest it looks fine. Not that I am an expert at reading these things in there raw state.
It certainly starts with a "0 HEAD" line.
Does anyone have any ideas why TMG wouldn't like it?
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Importing GedCom Problem
Started by SimonShaw, Sep 17 2005 01:39 AM
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 02:22 AM
QUOTE (SimonShaw @ 17 Sep 2005, 09:39 PM)
I am currently trying to Import a Gedcom file into TMG, and it says it has a missing header. I had a quick look at the file in notepad, and to be honest it looks fine. Not that I am an expert at reading these things in there raw state.
It certainly starts with a "0 HEAD" line.
Does anyone have any ideas why TMG wouldn't like it?
It certainly starts with a "0 HEAD" line.
Does anyone have any ideas why TMG wouldn't like it?
probably cos it was created in paf ?
Open it in a text editor and save as a text file and try again.
If there are any odd characters there, delete them before saving.
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Lorna
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Lorna
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 05:05 AM
Thanks for the reply. It is a PAF created file so I assume there are known problems with them.
I tried opening it in notepad, saving it as a text file then renaming it back to a GED file but get the same problem. Looking at it in a text editor I can't see any funny characters, just a crlf at the end of each line.
any other ideas?
I tried opening it in notepad, saving it as a text file then renaming it back to a GED file but get the same problem. Looking at it in a text editor I can't see any funny characters, just a crlf at the end of each line.
any other ideas?
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 05:36 AM
QUOTE (SimonShaw @ 17 Sep 2005, 07:05 AM)
Thanks for the reply. It is a PAF created file so I assume there are known problems with them.
I tried opening it in notepad, saving it as a text file then renaming it back to a GED file but get the same problem. Looking at it in a text editor I can't see any funny characters, just a crlf at the end of each line.
any other ideas?
I tried opening it in notepad, saving it as a text file then renaming it back to a GED file but get the same problem. Looking at it in a text editor I can't see any funny characters, just a crlf at the end of each line.
any other ideas?
I have had the same problem with very large GEDCOM files, 10,000 KB or more. I have found that all I have to do is load it into WordPad (NotePad can only take a much smaller file and is limited in its abilities) and then save it back into the original file. I do not change the extension to .txt This has worked for me several times.
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Posted 17 September 2005 - 05:57 AM
QUOTE (SimonShaw @ 17 Sep 2005, 05:39 AM)
I am currently trying to Import a Gedcom file into TMG, and it says it has a missing header.
The GEDCOM was created using the UTF-8 character set (UniCode). It needs to be converted to the ANSI character set before TMG can import it. PAF, for example, creates GEDCOMs in UTF-8 by default. To export from PAF for TMG import, the export settings need to be changed to 'Other GEDCOM 5.5' and to the ANSI character set.
I convert these GEDCOMs by opening them in Word (which will recognize the UTF-8) and then saving the GEDCOM as a text file (using the ANSI character set). You then need to check the filename and make sure that it ends in .GED rather than in .TXT.
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Posted 18 September 2005 - 01:56 AM
Thank's Jim. That sorted it. I couldn't find an ANSI character set, but US-ASCII worked just as well. It's now imported ok, and I can view the data.
So thanks everyone that responded.
So thanks everyone that responded.
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