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 G™ Pre-Paid http://clk.atdmt.com/OAT/go/nnmsntel0690000034oat/direct/01/
If it has massive amounts of unprintable characters in it then it is not a GEDCOM file. It may have the GED extension, but it sure doesn't sound like it is a GEDCOM file. A GEDCOM file is plain ASCII text, readable with wordPad or any text editor. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm ======================================= Alison Archer wrote: > > 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