Access Violation Error -- Won't Load GEDCOM Data - Categorized in: Report a Problem

Today (19 July 2023) I purchased Behold! (version 1.2.7, 02 Sep 2021), downloaded my current GEDCOM from Ancestry.com, and tried running Behold! to view the data. Instead I received the error:

"Access violation at address 0000000000E3EDCF in module 'Behold.exe'. Write of address 00000000005F30C0. There were no valid input files to process."

So, I reloaded Behold! and re-downloaded my GEDCOM from Ancestry.com, and tried again, with the same results.

The .log file shows no errors, and after the 11th line which reads "Listing of Input Messages" there is nothing further.

I see that an "access violation" problem was addressed on the Behold! Forum before (in 2013, 2006, 2005, etc.) but nothing recently. Based on these forum entries I suspect something unexpected appears in my GEDCOM file, but I have no idea what it might be.

I am able to open earlier GEDCOM files from Ancestry (downloaded 2019 through Feb 2022) with no problems, but all eight of my Ancestry GEDCOMs downloaded since July 2022 generate this same error and do not open.

I am on an HP desktop running Windows 11 Home (Version 22H2), 64-bit operating system, 32 GB RAM, if that helps.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Louis,

Thank you for your assistance in diagnosing my GEDCOM file issues. Unfortunately, my GEDCOM is a large file (113 MB), coming from my ancestry tree currently with 74,739 people and 187,525 attached records, so I cannot attach it to an e-mail. I do not normally send or receive such large files, so I am not sure how best to get the file to you (I do not have a DropBox account). Any idea how best to get this large file to you to take a look? I believe gmail has something called "Filelink" that I have used in the past, where I can send you a link to access the file (I've used it only once before), but I believe it would require you to also have a gmail account in order to access it. Are there other options?

Jimmy