Importing a .PAF file

[Joy]

Someone sent me a .PAF file, which I could not import into Reunion, so I sent i to a cousin with a Windows computer, from whom I've received .GED files and imported successfully.

Bob has PAF on his computer, and on his first attempt it "sorta worked" but was "read only," and he wanted to place it in Legacy. He changed its name and exported a proper .GED, then opened the .GED in Family Tree Maker. It no longer appeared to be read-only, so he re-exported it as a .GED, saving it with a different name. Then he re-imported it into Legacy and it "played nice" (I suppose he means he could open it in Legacy).

He did try a test entry on one of the "notes" when he opened it in Legacy, and it no longer seems to be "read only."

I tried to import the file he sent me as a .GED, and as a text file, and as a family file, but I get the error message, "improper file format." Does anybody know how I can open this file, and why I can't when I've never had problems importing Bob's .GED's before?

Thanks,
Joy

[John Hill]

Someone sent me a .PAF file, which I could not import into Reunion, so I sent i to a cousin with a Windows computer, from whom I've received .GED files and imported successfully.

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I tried to import the file he sent me as a .GED, and as a text file, and as a family file, but I get the error message, "improper file format." Does anybody know how I can open this file, and why I can't when I've never had problems importing Bob's .GED's before?

Thanks,
Joy
Joy,
It's hard to answer without sight of the GEDCOM file :-( Have you a rough idea of what one SHOULD look like, and does this one look very different? E.g. is there a linefeed or return or other character BEFORE the first line of the GEDCOM? Does it start with "0 HEAD" and end with "0 TRLR"?
Have you tried importing it into another Mac GEDCOM reader (including the-one-that-must-not-be-named)? With what result?
Failing that, would you be prepared to send me a copy? I don't guarantee to come up with the answer!
John.
js dot hill at physics dot org (substitute appropriate symbols).

[Frank Mitchell]

I tried to import the file he sent me as a .GED, and as a text file, and as a family file, but I get the error message, "improper file format." Does anybody know how I can open this file, and why I can't when I've never had problems importing Bob's .GED's before?
Have you tried pressing the Option key when importing the GEDCOM (into an empty Reunion file, of course).

I think this used to work in the past, but have not tried it in recent years or with Reunion 9.