Posting a gedcom on a personal website?

[Geoff Pearson]

I uploaded a gedcom to my website for a friend to download. When I try to
download it, it opens in IE6 as a text file. How do I upload it so that it
downloads as a complete file - and doesn't open? Zip it up? (I tried that
and it works - but is there a better way?)

[Joe Makowiec]

On 25 Jan 2006 in soc.genealogy.computing, Geoff Pearson wrote:

I uploaded a gedcom to my website for a friend to download. When I
try to download it, it opens in IE6 as a text file.

It is a text file.

How do I upload it so that it downloads as a complete file - and
doesn't open? Zip it up? (I tried that and it works - but is there
a better way?)

That's probably the best way. If you just upload it (unzipped), and it
opens in the browser, the viewer can do a File > Save in the browser, and
save it to his/her computer.

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Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe

[David]

Geoff Pearson wrote:

I uploaded a gedcom to my website for a friend to download. When I try to
download it, it opens in IE6 as a text file. How do I upload it so that it
downloads as a complete file - and doesn't open? Zip it up? (I tried that
and it works - but is there a better way?)


Right hand click on the link and select "save link as"

[Helen Castle]

Possibly because the file associations of the computer you are using are set
to open up .ged files as a text file in IE6

Go to My Documents, Tools, Folder Options, File Types and scroll down the
list of extensions until you find .GED then remove any associations.

Then when you click on that sort of file, on that computer, it will ask you
if you want to save or open

Click on save

Helen Castle
Narangba


"David" <krautusa@*removethis*rochester.rr.com> wrote in message
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Geoff Pearson wrote:
I uploaded a gedcom to my website for a friend to download. When I try
to download it, it opens in IE6 as a text file. How do I upload it so
that it downloads as a complete file - and doesn't open? Zip it up? (I
tried that and it works - but is there a better way?)
Right hand click on the link and select "save link as"

[Helen Castle]

oops attached the answer to the wrong person

The best option is to zip it and put it there for downloading, however if
the other person doesnt know how to handle zip files it may not be an option

Possibly because the file associations of the computer you are using are set
to open up .ged files as a text file in IE6. In my computer the
associations are set so that if I click on a .ged file Genviewer opens.

Go to My Documents, Tools, Folder Options, File Types and scroll down the
list of extensions until you find .GED then remove any associations.

Then when you click on that sort of file, on that computer, it will ask you
if you want to save or open

Click on save

Helen Castle
Narangba


"Geoff Pearson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I uploaded a gedcom to my website for a friend to download. When I try to
download it, it opens in IE6 as a text file. How do I upload it so that it
downloads as a complete file - and doesn't open? Zip it up? (I tried that
and it works - but is there a better way?)