> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:autosomal-dna- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregg Bonner > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AUTOSOMAL-DNA] trouble uploading GEDCOM to FTDNA > > Is it possible that you are inadvertantly saving the file type as > .FTW (or similar) and not .GED? No, the file extension is .ged. I was successful in uploading a copy to my cousin's account, and these are very similar files he is my first cousin. > If you feel like troubleshooting, try uploading a "clean" gedcom, > which is to say only 3 people in the gedcom (a person, and his/her > parents). Include only orthodox dates and no places or notes or > sources or anything. These are "clean" files: name and BMD (birth, marriage, death) date and place only. No sources, no notes, nothing else. That's why the file is only 120K. There are split dates, but they cannot purport to accept GEDCOM format if they can't handle split dates. > Also, I think files could be corrupted by opening them in text > editors after their creation but prior to upload attempt. For > example, if you wanted to clear certain sensitive notes, that may > alter the way the carriage return and line feed are handled. These were fresh exports, I did not fiddle with them. > If you make the minimum possible gedcom in .ged format, and don't > edit it post-facto, and it STILL doesn't work, then your trouble- > shooting days are over. You then would know that it is a systemic > problem on FTDNA's end, and not something particular to gedcoms > created by you and others. That's what I've suspected from the beginning. Their IT department doesn't have a history of doing things right the first time. Look at the example of the earliest ancestor: if you enter too much text in the textbox, nothing happens. No upload, no error message. Nothing to clue you in as to what is wrong. It used to be that the software just truncated your entry, but still uploaded it. Now it leaves you wondering what's happening. > My guess is that it has to do with over-writing gedcoms. They are > trying to switch to combined. It would be academically interesting > to me to see the breakdown of those having trouble uploading broken > down into types of - brand new gedcom, no over-write; new combined > gedcom over-writing maternal only; new gedcom, post-maternal gedcom > deletion; gedcom over-writing remaining maternal post paternal > deletion etc. I had no trouble with my two uploads. One was upload > mixed gedcom no over-write, and one was mixed gedcom upload over- > writing maternal only. They say the new gedcom will over-write, but > I wonder if there is any effect of prior gedcom deletion with > respect to new gedcom upload success. I don't recommend anyone experiment with this because you may end up, like me, unable to do an upload, at all. For now, I'm leaving my other cousins' accounts alone, even though they still have separate Y-DNA and mtDNA files. Diana