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BUG - Wrong GEDCOM

Anton 'Tony' John Grambihler

March 04, 2011 18:21

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I did not see any button for reporting bugs.

I download PAF GEDCOMs because they are formated more correctly than the 5.5 option. The last few times that I have selected PAF I have gotten the non-PAF format.

I was sure that the download I did was a PAF, but the GEDCOM wasn't PAF, so I did it again making sure I selected PAF, but this one downloaded incorrectly and WinZip did not like it. This is where a redownload button would be nice.

I did it again (3rd time) and I made sure that PAF was selected. It still downloaded the non-PAF version. This use to work.

The GEDCOM header should also give an indication of which GEDCOM Format was downloaded.

 

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  Geni Support Team March 29, 2011 17:28

  Anton,

  Thanks for your post. We have asked our GEDCOM specialists to look into this. We will get back to as soon as we have an update.

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  Judi Temple April 05, 2011 12:43

  I had a similar experience but there had to be something different within the files created as the results when uploading into a very old FTM version were different using files generated both ways.  

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  Catherine Erin Serafina Liora Spiceland (Pinder) December 22, 2011 20:23

  I found a related issue recently. I exported three GEDCOMS and then went to go download them all at the same time, after all three were done. Each page said the GEDCOM would be available for download until January 2012, but all three download links linked to the very last GEDCOM that was created. I then had to go re-export the other GEDCOMS, which cost me time and used Geni resources which should not have had to be used.