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 don't have a right mouse button)
To make the operation a default:
click on the document once.
Go Command i
select Open with
Then hit the button Change all
Hope this helps
Regards,
Eugene
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 look for any
preferences
which have been changed to cause this.
As per my previous post, I have now worked out how to change the
file kind
of the files already downloaded - so I now have the "fix" - I'd
just like to
remove the actual problem!!
TIA
Neil
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on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 post:
- Get info shows "kind" as "text" and "open with" as "Microsoft
Excel"
- Get info icon is an Excel icon
But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv
with Excel
(I'm not sure of the chicken & egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files
download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post:
- Get info shows "kind" as "Microsoft Excel Document" and "open
with" as
"Microsoft Excel"
- Get info icon is a blank page icon
So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files
(comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just
(delimited)
text files - as long as the file "kind" is "text" both quicklook
and the get
info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine.
The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the
file "kind"
as "Microsoft Excel Document"
Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft
application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in
fact, is
the default application set to "open with" for both file types.
Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a
"Microsoft
Excel Document" to have a certain format - and presumably deal
with it
accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so,
presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations
they just
show a generic "blank page" document preview.
In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to
work out how
to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as
long as it
knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to
download as "text" files rather than "Microsoft Excel Document"
files.
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.
What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original
download
parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as
file "kind"
= "text" - which is how it was all working until last month!
The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how,
when or
by what the file "kind" of the downloaded file is set so I don't
really know
where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause
this.
Anybody got any ideas on this one?
Cheers
Neil
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