Fetch Softworks

Edit button now suddenly brings files up as .html instead of .txt files, crap! (4 posts)

• Started 13 years ago by David Naisuler
• Latest reply 13 years ago from Scott McGuire

• David Naisuler Member

  I have been using TextEdit to modify .html files (not to use as a wysiwyg editor) with the edit button, but just this morning it started acting like a wysiwyg editor rather than a plain text editor, how annoying!

  How can I get the .html doc on the server to be editable via the Edit button as if it had been opened as a .txt file, and then auto-update the file on the server, just like it always had until today? What happened???

  - - Dave

  p.s. yes i know the bias against TextEdit by Fetch, but I've not been using it to wysiwyg it, so please stay away from that topic- as far as I'm concerned this might as easily happen in any other editor, and would deter me from using Fetch at all, so I want it solved with what I have, since it worked just fine yesterday!

  Posted 13 years ago #

• Scott McGuire Administrator

  Hi Dave,

  You should check your TextEdit preferences; TextEdit is in charge of deciding how to interpret the file.

  * Open TextEdit.
  * Go to the TextEdit menu, and choose Preferences.
  * Click the "Open and Save" tab.
  * Look at the "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files" checkbox.
  * If it is unchecked, check it.
  * Close the Preferences window.
  * Try editing with Fetch again and see if that fixes the problem.

  Let us know how it goes.

  Thanks,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 13 years ago #

• David Naisuler Member

  Scott, Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!

  I had been musing over those checkboxes....

  - - Dave

  Posted 13 years ago #

• Scott McGuire Administrator

  Hi Dave,

  You're welcome, I'm glad to hear that fixed the problem.

  Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

  Best,

  Scott McGuire
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 13 years ago #