Hi Bob,
No, I actually use Firefox not Safari - but it got me thinking - I hadn't
thought to blame the browser :)
Anyway, I fired up Safari and gave that a shot but got the same result (same
file "kind") as for firefox.
So my thinking is it's somewhere in the Apple system/finder prefs - but I
ca
On 28/11/2008, at 11:01 AM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi all,
Anybody got any thoughts on how to get my system back to
downloading .csv
files as "kind" = "text"?
Anybody know how, when or by what the file "kind" of the downloaded
file is
actually set - because I don't really know where to loo
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for the reply, but this isn't really the problem - see my previous
post.
I don't have a problem opening the .csv files and Excel is already the
default application to do so - I don't want to open them in a text editor
(but could easily do so if I wanted).
The problem is how my
Generally excel will want to convert the .csv file format by default.
I think from memory .csv is comma delimited text.
If you want it to be opened by a text editor like TextEdit you can
either drag it over the TextEdit icon on the dock or right click and
select open with. (Command i if you
Hi all,
Anybody got any thoughts on how to get my system back to downloading .csv
files as "kind" = "text"?
Anybody know how, when or by what the file "kind" of the downloaded file is
actually set - because I don't really know where to look for any preferences
which have been changed to cause thi
Just a quick follow up:
>
> For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually
> track down some terminal script to change the file "kind" - in the meantime
> I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook
> preview.
This actually proved to be eve
Hi Ronni,
The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were
downloaded before "something' changed when I re-installed everything in
October.
So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show
just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original pos
On 22/11/2008, at 6:15 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Downloading a new .csv file gives me a file set to open
automatically with
Excel (which is what I want) but with a file "kind" of "Microsoft
Excel
Document" rather than "text" - which gives me the problem of no
preview in
either quicklook or
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