Re: Corruption causing Gramps to crash

Peter Flynn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.genealogy.gramps.user
Organization Silmaril Consultants
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22/11/2021 14:36, Nick Hall via Gramps-users wrote:
> On 22/11/2021 14:04, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I thought .gramps files were XML, but looking at my own exports, they're
>> a binary format. What are you using to read one?
> 
> They can be just plain XML, but are often zipped.
> 
> zless is a useful tool to read them.

Thanks, I hadn't come across zless. I was tipped to unzip with 7z x.

It appears the designers thought it would be a great idea to make the
name of the zipped file the same as the name of the file contained in it.

Peter



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