exporting GEDCOM from MyHeritahe with no images

[jeikela]

There are missing records (lines) viewing ged file in notepad. What cause this?
Part of head:
0 HEAD
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5.1
2 FORM LINEAGE-LINKED
1 CHAR UTF-8
1 LANG Norwegian
1 SOUR MYHERITAGE
2 NAME MyHeritage Family Tree Builder
2 VERS 5.5.1
2 _RTLSAVE RTL
2 CORP MyHeritage.com

0 @i100@ INDI
1 _UPD 28 JAN 2021 10:06:11 GMT -0500
1 NAME Privat /Myhre/
2 GIVN Privat
2 SURN Myhre
1 SEX F
1 FAMC @F500019@
1 SOUR @s9@
2 PAGE https://www.myheritage.no/person-1505535_OYYV7VEWD4ZLFZUZX3VMCIS6LTVRKNI_OYYV7VEWD4ZLFZUZX3VMCIS6LTVRKNI/privat-myhre
2 QUAY 3
2 DATA
3 TEXT Personen er lagt til ved å godkjenne an Smart Match
2 EVEN Smart Matching
3 ROLE 1:436179841-1-505535:0
1 NOTE _P_CCINFO 1-578
1 RIN MH:I100
1 _UID 6011E3D33CD5EF3FD9BBDDB295570C37
0 @i104@ INDI

[jeikela]

Seemes that binary r and w fixed it..EExample in Python

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import filedialog

root = tk.Tk()
root.withdraw()
file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename()

if file_path:
with open(file_path, "rb") as infile, open("D:/main/rawfil.ged", "wb") as outfile:
outfile.write(b"\xef\xbb\xbf") # Write UTF-8 BOM explicitly
outfile.writelines(infile)

[dthaler]

Discussion in GEDCOM Steering Committee 17 JUN 2025:

• The BOM is optional in a GEDCOM file, to answer the question.
• Notepad appears to default to ANSI rather than UTF-8 when no BOM appears.
• There does not appear to be any error here.