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 17 Sep 2005, 01:39 AM
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Group: NewMembers Posts: 7 Joined: 16-February 05 Member No.: 3,754  |
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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17 Sep 2005, 02:22 AM
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  Group: Senior Members Posts: 599 Joined: 3-June 05 From: Waikanae, NZ Member No.: 4,614 |
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?  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. -------------------- Regards,
Lorna Win XP Pro SP3/MacBookPro with Fusion/Win7 |
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17 Sep 2005, 05:05 AM
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Group: NewMembers Posts: 7 Joined: 16-February 05 Member No.: 3,754 |
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? |
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17 Sep 2005, 05:36 AM
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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 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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17 Sep 2005, 05:57 AM
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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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18 Sep 2005, 01:56 AM
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Group: NewMembers Posts: 7 Joined: 16-February 05 Member No.: 3,754 |
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. |
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