Solve : I have a very important file...?

1.	Solve : I have a very important file...?
Answer» in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do?are you saying this file has no extension ? ? View it using Windows Explorer...right click the file and select properties... Post back with your findings.Try renaming it with the appropriate extension. What type of file is it?C:\>attrib /? Displays or changes file attributes. ATTRIB [+R \| -R] [+A \| -A ] [+S \| -S] [+H \| -H] [drive:][path][filename] [/S [/D]] + Sets an attribute. - Clears an attribute. R Read-only file attribute. A Archive file attribute. S System file attribute. H Hidden file attribute. [drive:][path][filename] Specifies a file or files for attrib to process. /S Processes matching files in the current folder and all subfolders. /D Processes folders as well. C:\>copy garbage newfile.txt C:\>cd garbage C:\> C:\>chmod 777 garbage C:\>praglen, please ignore the meaningless post above this one.If the file has no extension and you don't know what type of file it is, you can always open in notepad and examine the first two or three characters. You can then google that to find out what type of file it is and which program you should use to open it. All I know off the top of my head is that MZ is an exe file. Quote from: praglen on March 04, 2010, 07:56:44 AM in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do? Praglen, When you google the above ideas in post #3 above , you will find all the suggestions germane and might fix your problem. The syntax of the command chmod is: chmod [numeric value] [file name] The numeric value to make a file writable is 777 and the file name is logfile.txt for example: chmod 777 logfile.txt Quote from: praglen on March 04, 2010, 07:56:44 AM File in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do? http://filext.com/faq/files_with_no_extension.php "How to Handle Files With No Extension What about files with no extension? "With no extension there can be no direct association. So, you have to know exactly what the file's format is. You can only know this by either looking into the file and trying to FIGURE it out or, easier, sending a note to the person who sent you the file asking what program created it and what format it's in. With that information you can determine if you can open the file." [Note: If you can't copy the file with a different extension make certain that COMMON file extensions are set to SHOW. See the FAQ here for instructions.]" try analyzing the file here: http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx it should determine the type of file. Report back with results and we can probably GIVE you some extensions to try adding to the filename.

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in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do?are you saying this file has no extension ? ?
View it using Windows Explorer...right click the file and select properties...
Post back with your findings.Try renaming it with the appropriate extension. What type of file is it?C:\>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.

ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A ] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [drive:][path][filename]
[/S [/D]]

+ Sets an attribute.
- Clears an attribute.
R Read-only file attribute.
A Archive file attribute.
S System file attribute.
H Hidden file attribute.
[drive:][path][filename]
Specifies a file or files for attrib to process.
/S Processes matching files in the current folder
and all subfolders.
/D Processes folders as well.

C:\>copy garbage newfile.txt

C:\>cd garbage

C:\>

C:\>chmod 777 garbage

C:\>praglen, please ignore the meaningless post above this one.If the file has no extension and you don't know what type of file it is, you can always open in notepad and examine the first two or three characters. You can then google that to find out what type of file it is and which program you should use to open it. All I know off the top of my head is that MZ is an exe file. Quote from: praglen on March 04, 2010, 07:56:44 AM

in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do?

Praglen,

When you google the above ideas in post #3 above , you will find all the
suggestions germane and might fix your problem.

The syntax of the command chmod is:

chmod [numeric value] [file name]

The numeric value to make a file writable is 777 and the file name is logfile.txt for example:

chmod 777 logfile.txt
Quote from: praglen on March 04, 2010, 07:56:44 AM

File in My Documents which I just can't open(no extensions, nothing). I tried to click on the 35 programs to choose from, but none can open it. What to do?

http://filext.com/faq/files_with_no_extension.php

"How to Handle Files With No Extension
What about files with no extension?

"With no extension there can be no direct association. So, you have to know exactly what the file's format is. You can only know this by either looking into the file and trying to FIGURE it out or, easier, sending a note to the person who sent you the file asking what program created it and what format it's in. With that information you can determine if you can open the file."

[Note: If you can't copy the file with a different extension make certain that COMMON file extensions are set to SHOW. See the FAQ here for instructions.]"

try analyzing the file here:

http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx

it should determine the type of file. Report back with results and we can probably GIVE you some extensions to try adding to the filename.

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