Clytie
2006-05-19, 04:24 AM
Hello all :)
This happened with SP10, and is still happening with SP11.
I download PO files, gettext translation files, routinely from various project sites. These are a special kind of text file, but they _don't_ have a .txt extension: they should end only in .po (Portable Object).
However, in SP10-11, when I download one of these files, instead of getting filename.po, I get filename.po.txt, which messes up my default application(s).
So in order to open and use this file as a PO file, I have to edit the filename and remove the .txt on the end.
This would be like downloading a html file and getting it as filename.html.txt. The application assigned to open .txt files will open it when you double-click, not the one assigned to .html files. Your browser will probably not recognize it as a webpage.
Although UNIX should not bother with file extensions, apparently extensions on downloaded files still affect the filetype assigned.
I have no idea what is causing it. It happens regardless of source site.
Thanks for any help you can offer with this.
btw, does anyone know how I can switch off that silly Finder dialogue which pops up anytime you change the end of a filename and asks you if you really want to do it?
Thankyou. :)
This happened with SP10, and is still happening with SP11.
I download PO files, gettext translation files, routinely from various project sites. These are a special kind of text file, but they _don't_ have a .txt extension: they should end only in .po (Portable Object).
However, in SP10-11, when I download one of these files, instead of getting filename.po, I get filename.po.txt, which messes up my default application(s).
So in order to open and use this file as a PO file, I have to edit the filename and remove the .txt on the end.
This would be like downloading a html file and getting it as filename.html.txt. The application assigned to open .txt files will open it when you double-click, not the one assigned to .html files. Your browser will probably not recognize it as a webpage.
Although UNIX should not bother with file extensions, apparently extensions on downloaded files still affect the filetype assigned.
I have no idea what is causing it. It happens regardless of source site.
Thanks for any help you can offer with this.
btw, does anyone know how I can switch off that silly Finder dialogue which pops up anytime you change the end of a filename and asks you if you really want to do it?
Thankyou. :)