If you can find the file in Terminal (command prompt), you could do something like this:
sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt And you can probably do this if it "looks" okay but may have missing or extra tab characters, for example: sed "28070q;d" broken-file.txt | hexdump -C On 4 October 2016 at 15:03, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Certain editors show the line number. Not sure which program to recommend > on Mac though, as I’m a Windows user.. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Peter > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Idealistic > Pragmatist > *Sent:* 04 October 2016 15:27 > *To:* mnemosyne-proj-users <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [mnemosyne-proj-users] Help converting a file from Genius > (Mac native software) to Mnemosyne > > > > Peter, > > Thanks for your response. I'm honestly not sure how to look at line 28070 > specifically--there are an awful lot of lines in the file, and they're not > numbered. Any advice on that? > > Jennie > > Op dinsdag 4 oktober 2016 07:23:03 UTC-6 schreef Peter Bienstman: > > Hi, > > > > Have you looked at line 28070 of that file? What does it say? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Peter > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:mnemosyne-...@ > googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Idealistic Pragmatist > *Sent:* 04 October 2016 14:32 > *To:* mnemosyne-proj-users <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [mnemosyne-proj-users] Help converting a file from Genius (Mac > native software) to Mnemosyne > > > > Hey all, I'm hoping I can get some help from experienced Mnemosyne users. > I have been a faithful daily user of the Mac-native software Genius for > about ten years now, and so as I'm sure you can imagine, the flash-card > file I've accumulated is pretty enormous. Unfortunately, the Genius > software is no longer being updated (it used to be housed at sourceforge), > and it doesn't work on the latest upgrade to OSX. For this reason, I'd like > to switch to Mnemosyne. Unfortunately, though, when I try to import a > tab-delimited data version of my old Genius file to Mnemosyne, I get an > error reading "Badly formed input on line 28070". > > Now, I have opened the file in a text-reader, and it looks readable and > well-formed at least to the naked eye, so I'm guessing there's just some > tweak that needs to happen to the file to make it readable by Mnemosyne? > I'm hoping so, anyway. Is there anyone who could help me do that, maybe? > I'd be really relieved to hear it, because otherwise, that's a lot of years > of daily work down the drain. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/153899ef-f4e4-4e89-90c4- > bb36d584ead8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/153899ef-f4e4-4e89-90c4-bb36d584ead8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/3dfb319b-ddc4-4dde-8340- > c587db1e3352%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/3dfb319b-ddc4-4dde-8340-c587db1e3352%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/e83ee7cb77f949ae9e4375abbd10cb > a6%40xmail101.UGent.be > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/e83ee7cb77f949ae9e4375abbd10cba6%40xmail101.UGent.be?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/CAO-0pXDi5%2Bdw2UpCF%2Bpys4i1wLwaOkAgYwerwhnbOhd1mm-B%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
