I do not know of a salvage utility, HOWEVER: Interested posting. A well structured GED file appears to work the same on XP and Vista. I observed some possible issues here (prompted by Vista warnings) worthy of note. To fix your issues you could get rid of the corrupted area ... just using Microsoft Word. Try it on a copy of the file. I know that PAF is vulnerable to long custom event names for one. Steve -----Original Message----- From: gen-comp-tips-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gen-comp-tips-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alison Archer Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 9:04 PM To: gen-comp-tips@rootsweb.com Subject: [GEN-COMP-TIPS] Looking for a way to repair gedcom files Does anyone know if there is a GED file clearup or repair utility. I have been given a very large (30 Mbytes) GED file and I would like to load this into a new PAF file and extract the relatively small information that interests me. Unfortunately the when I try to load it up it takes ages under Windows XP and then PAF crashes. It takes ages from reporting the initial errors until it actually crashes and the PC is very slow. When I try to load up on my work Vista laptop there are some security errors and warns about various security things - but it does not crash. I have opened the GED file using Microsoft Word 2007 and it looks there is a massive amount of unprintable characters. Does anyone know of a utlity that can get rid of the invalid things. (I am hoping that what I am interested in is still in the rest). Ali _________________________________________________________________ Get MOTORAZR MAXX V6 now $249 on Next GT Pre-Paid http://clk.atdmt.com/OAT/go/nnmsntel0690000034oat/direct/01/ -------------------------------------- Having trouble with your subscription? Contact the List Admin at gen-comp-tips-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-COMP-TIPS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message