John:

Are you saying that:
1) You used to Retrieve the Property Mgr files
2) Now you can only Import them
3) The files are now in text format?

Note that Retrieve and Import are different processes.

When an application (AP, AR, BR, Property Manager) creates a file that can be Retrieved into the GL, it creates the file in a format that cannot be read by an external application (though GridView can read it). That's the file you loooked at. It is not a text file.

It sounds as if Property Manager is no longer creating files for Retrieval, only for Import. I haven't looked at the application for years but check to see if something has changed there. It's not Adagio in this case!