Hi, OK, I fully admit I joined this list because a problem has cropped up and I'm posting straightaway. But I hope it will be of interest to the mailing list and thank you for having me! I am trying to do an autosomal transfer, uploading an Ancestry.com raw data file to Family Tree DNA. However I keep on getting the following message "The specified file 'Ancestry dna.txt' could not be uploaded. The file is an unsupported version or in a corrupt/malformed format. Please place an order for Family Finder <https://www.familytreedna.com/products/family-finder> or download the file and try again." Looking on the FTDNA message boards this seems to be a common problem. There seem to a number of different theories over this: that is on FTDNA's side. That it is Ancestry.com and the files are smaller than they should be. That it is to do with the header. I have tried replacing the header with that suggested on the message board but it made no difference. I have posted it on Gedmatch with no problem at all but I understand it allows for more variations in the raw data. The header on the Ancestry data I have is as follows: #AncestryDNA raw data download #This file was generated by AncestryDNA at: 10/07/2017 01:20:13 UTC #Data was collected using AncestryDNA array version: V2.0 #Data is formatted using AncestryDNA converter version: V1.0 #Below is a text version of your DNA file from Ancestry.com DNA, LLC. THIS #INFORMATION IS FOR YOUR PERSONAL USE AND IS INTENDED FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH #ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR MEDICAL, DIAGNOSTIC, OR HEALTH PURPOSES. THE EXPORTED DATA IS #SUBJECT TO THE AncestryDNA TERMS AND CONDITIONS, BUT PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE #DOWNLOADED DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROTECTED BY OUR SECURITY MEASURES. #WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD YOUR RAW DNA DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL RISK OF STORING, #SECURING AND PROTECTING YOUR DATA. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE ANCESTRYDNA FAQS. # #Genetic data is provided below as five TAB delimited columns. Each line #corresponds to a SNP. Column one provides the SNP identifier (rsID where #possible). Columns two and three contain the chromosome and basepair position #of the SNP using human reference build 37.1 coordinates. Columns four and five #contain the two alleles observed at this SNP (genotype). The genotype is reported #on the forward (+) strand with respect to the human reference. rsid chromosome position allele1 allele2 I am not a tekkie and just want to get on Family Tree DNA. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you so much! Alice
You will need the zipped file for upload not the txt file. Some browsers will unzip your file and put the txt file in your download folder and the original zip file in the trash. Look in your trash file for the zipped file and choose that for upload to FTDNA. Of course, move the zipped file out of the trash first???? If you don't find the zip file in your trash folder, you can set your browser not to open/unzip files on download. Then download again. In Safari, that option is under Preferences in the first screen. I leave mine set that way all the time. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 8, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Genealice <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > OK, I fully admit I joined this list because a problem has cropped up and > I'm posting straightaway. But I hope it will be of interest to the mailing > list and thank you for having me! > > > > I am trying to do an autosomal transfer, uploading an Ancestry.com raw data > file to Family Tree DNA. However I keep on getting the following message > > > > "The specified file 'Ancestry dna.txt' could not be uploaded. The file is an > unsupported version or in a corrupt/malformed format. Please place an order > for Family Finder <https://www.familytreedna.com/products/family-finder> or > download the file and try again." > > > > Looking on the FTDNA message boards this seems to be a common problem. There > seem to a number of different theories over this: that is on FTDNA's side. > That it is Ancestry.com and the files are smaller than they should be. That > it is to do with the header. I have tried replacing the header with that > suggested on the message board but it made no difference. > > > > I have posted it on Gedmatch with no problem at all but I understand it > allows for more variations in the raw data. > > > > The header on the Ancestry data I have is as follows: > > > > #AncestryDNA raw data download > > #This file was generated by AncestryDNA at: 10/07/2017 01:20:13 UTC > > #Data was collected using AncestryDNA array version: V2.0 > > #Data is formatted using AncestryDNA converter version: V1.0 > > #Below is a text version of your DNA file from Ancestry.com DNA, LLC. THIS > > #INFORMATION IS FOR YOUR PERSONAL USE AND IS INTENDED FOR GENEALOGICAL > RESEARCH > > #ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED FOR MEDICAL, DIAGNOSTIC, OR HEALTH PURPOSES. THE > EXPORTED DATA IS > > #SUBJECT TO THE AncestryDNA TERMS AND CONDITIONS, BUT PLEASE BE AWARE THAT > THE > > #DOWNLOADED DATA WILL NO LONGER BE PROTECTED BY OUR SECURITY MEASURES. > > #WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD YOUR RAW DNA DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL RISK OF STORING, > > #SECURING AND PROTECTING YOUR DATA. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE ANCESTRYDNA > FAQS. > > # > > #Genetic data is provided below as five TAB delimited columns. Each line > > #corresponds to a SNP. Column one provides the SNP identifier (rsID where > > #possible). Columns two and three contain the chromosome and basepair > position > > #of the SNP using human reference build 37.1 coordinates. Columns four and > five > > #contain the two alleles observed at this SNP (genotype). The genotype is > reported > > #on the forward (+) strand with respect to the human reference. > > rsid chromosome position allele1 allele2 > > > > I am not a tekkie and just want to get on Family Tree DNA. Can anyone help > me with this? > > > > Thank you so much! > > > > Alice > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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