That worked for files downloaded from AncestryDNA during a certain time frame, but this appears to be a new problem where the file size has changed. Ann Turner On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Kb <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a work around on this. It is fairly simple, and I found it after > I had the same problem. > > You need to edit the txt file in the zipped file, so unzip the file and > load the AncestryDNA.txt file into a text editor-Notepad on Windows is is > deal. > > You need to make edits to lines 3 and 4: > > #Data was collected using AncestryDNA array version: V1.0 > # etc > > Change to V2.0 > Save as txt file. > Rezip with same file name > It should load into FTDNA. > > Cheers > Kevin Brewer > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Yes, while his timings might have been out, Dirk from Ancestry did confirm to me that the files are smaller. They also already have V2.0 in the header, so that isn’t the problem, although of course I appreciate the attempt to help! I am of course a little irritated but quite willing to accept that firms offering a free upload service or one at minimal cost to unlock all facilities may not be able to keep up with all the changes. However it should be flagged up more clearly that some raw data files are not compatible so that folks like me do not spend inordinate amounts of time trying to upload a file which, for the foreseeable future, is not in a format accepted by the firm. Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Oct 2017, at 03:36, Ann Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > That worked for files downloaded from AncestryDNA during a certain time > frame, but this appears to be a new problem where the file size has > changed. > > Ann Turner > >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Kb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There is a work around on this. It is fairly simple, and I found it after >> I had the same problem. >> >> You need to edit the txt file in the zipped file, so unzip the file and >> load the AncestryDNA.txt file into a text editor-Notepad on Windows is is >> deal. >> >> You need to make edits to lines 3 and 4: >> >> #Data was collected using AncestryDNA array version: V1.0 >> # etc >> >> Change to V2.0 >> Save as txt file. >> Rezip with same file name >> It should load into FTDNA. >> >> Cheers >> Kevin Brewer >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message