Get error when uploading ANcestryDNA

[Ann H]

Still not working...

I am having exactly the same problem - took the same actions, with the same results. I got my DNA results from Ancestry on 15th May 2017 if that is any help. No problem uploading them to Gedmatch.

Update 10.55 GMT:
I just downloaded my results from Ancestry again - in case something had changed since yesterday - and got the same error message uploading to FamilytreeDNA.

Update 19th May:
It is still not working - I just tried again. Please can someone from FamilyTreeDNA respond? Thank you.

[migoblu]

Keeps happening with the same error.

It looks like there was an issue with certain files from Ancestry being too short in terms of not having all of the data normally included in the file. Re-downloading the data should correct this problem, but I cannot rule out that Ancestry has not changed something recently. If you still have the same problem after re-downloading please let me know.

Has anyone received this same error with any recent 23andme transfer?

-Darren
Family Tree DNA

Darren, this same errors keeps happening, after 4 tries of downloading. I had no problem uploading the same file to GEDmatch.com. Thanks for any help.

John Hale

[Ann H]

Exactly the same problem

I re-downloaded the a new raw file from Ancestry, and when I attempted to upload it to FamilyTreeDNA, it gives me the exact same error:
"The specified file 'dna-data-2017-05-18.zip' could not be uploaded. The file is an unsupported version or in a corrupt/malformed format. Please place an order for Family Finder or download the file and try again."

The confusing thing for me is that I was successful at uploading the same file to gedmatch, so the file couldn't be corrupt if they were able to process it correctly.

I am having exactly the same problem - took the same actions, with the same results. I got my DNA results from Ancestry on 15th May 2017 if that is any help. No problem uploading them to Gedmatch.

Update 10.55 GMT:
I just downloaded my results from Ancestry again - in case something had changed since yesterday - and got the same error message uploading to FamilytreeDNA.

[kevincmeade]

I re-downloaded the a new raw file from Ancestry, and when I attempted to upload it to FamilyTreeDNA, it gives me the exact same error:
"The specified file 'dna-data-2017-05-18.zip' could not be uploaded. The file is an unsupported version or in a corrupt/malformed format. Please place an order for Family Finder or download the file and try again."

The confusing thing for me is that I was successful at uploading the same file to gedmatch, so the file couldn't be corrupt if they were able to process it correctly.

[Darren]

It looks like there was an issue with certain files from Ancestry being too short in terms of not having all of the data normally included in the file. Re-downloading the data should correct this problem, but I cannot rule out that Ancestry has not changed something recently. If you still have the same problem after re-downloading please let me know.

Has anyone received this same error with any recent 23andme transfer?

-Darren
Family Tree DNA

[Judyc1999]

Same problem uploading Ancestry DNA to FTDNA

Just for the record, I received the same error message when I tried to upload Ancestry raw DNA to FTDNA. Please fix this problem ASAP!

[migoblu]

Thanks, Darren.

Hello,

I sent an email to my manager to see what may be going on with this. I will let you know what I hear.

-Darren
Family Tree DNA

Thanks, Darren.

[Darren]

Hello,

I sent an email to my manager to see what may be going on with this. I will let you know what I hear.

-Darren
Family Tree DNA

[kevincmeade]

I received that exact same message yesterday and today after trying to upload my AncestryDNA results to a new account I just created. I was able to successfully upload the exact same file to gedmatch, so I'm not sure why it says it's the wrong format or corrupt. I was under the impression FamilyTreeDNA was able to accept Ancestry's new format that changed last year, as I was able to upload others from the new format.

[migoblu]

I get this error when trying to upload raw DNA file from AncstryDNA:

The specified file 'dna-data-2017-05-13.zip' could not be uploaded. The file is an unsupported version or in a corrupt/malformed format. Please place an order for Family Finder or download the file and try again.

Any idea of what to do? Thanks for any help.