Possibly an OS issue rather than Nisus, but FWIW:
This is an occasional problem: an RTF document I was working on yesterday (in Nisus Writer Express 2.1.1) has turned into a Unix Executable file overnight (icon like a monitor with "exec" at top left). Nisus couldn't open it, so I was reduced to using Text Edit which could, at the expense of all the formatting however.
What could be the cause, any way to prevent this?
(PB 1.25, 1Gb RAM, OS X.3.5)
RTF file turns into Unix executable overnight
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Do you have the suffixes showing in the Finder? I found very early on that OSX, although working in many ways like the older OSes, really prefers you to always use and show suffixes.
Under the Finder menu, choose Preferences... Click the Advanced button and ensure that Show all file extensions is checked.
NWE will save the suffix .rtf as standard (even if you elect to hide the suffix in the dialog box). I have found odd text files show up as UNIX executables, but you may be able to open the file in NWE by dragging the file to NWE's Dock icon, then saving as.
Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, by the way.
Under the Finder menu, choose Preferences... Click the Advanced button and ensure that Show all file extensions is checked.
NWE will save the suffix .rtf as standard (even if you elect to hide the suffix in the dialog box). I have found odd text files show up as UNIX executables, but you may be able to open the file in NWE by dragging the file to NWE's Dock icon, then saving as.
Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, by the way.
Just another bit about the file extension and opening: try adding ".rtf" to the end of the filename. The most certain way is to do this in the "Get Info" window (File > Get Info...).
If that doesn't fix it, you can use the Get Info window to change what app opens the file. This may not be a permanent fix, but it should at least help. In the Get Info window, expand the Open With section, and choose Nisus Writer Express from the menu. If it asks, you may as well tell it to open all .rtf files with NWE.
Another thing you should try is repairing your disk's permissions. Use Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities folder to do that. I've had this solve some strange problems kind of like yours.
Hope this helps a bit.
Ryan
www.r-blog.com
If that doesn't fix it, you can use the Get Info window to change what app opens the file. This may not be a permanent fix, but it should at least help. In the Get Info window, expand the Open With section, and choose Nisus Writer Express from the menu. If it asks, you may as well tell it to open all .rtf files with NWE.
Another thing you should try is repairing your disk's permissions. Use Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities folder to do that. I've had this solve some strange problems kind of like yours.
Hope this helps a bit.
Ryan
www.r-blog.com
Repairing disk permissions might help. This happens when your Mac somehow decides to mark your file as "executable". We get reports of this happening now and then, but mostly with Classic files which generally do not have a file extension, so it is easier for them to break.
As far as we can tell, this is an issue with Mac OS X rather than with NWE as it sometimes happens with random text files other than those created by NWE.
-C
As far as we can tell, this is an issue with Mac OS X rather than with NWE as it sometimes happens with random text files other than those created by NWE.
-C
Charles Jolley
Nisus Software, Inc.
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The file is a text file, not RTF, and it is not a Unix executable. The reason OS X displays it with the Unix icon is because the file is missing its .txt extension. That is Apple's fault.
Add .txt to the filename, and its Nisus Writer icon will reappear, and it'll open in NWX.
This happens sometimes when you are editing a text file in Nisus Writer Express and assume that you still have "rtf" selected in the Save dialog. This is most often a file that was saved as text by Internet Explorer or by an application other than NWX that failed to append the proper extension. Even though NWX edited it and saved it, it still doesn't have a txt extension. That part is NWX's fault. It should check to see.
Add .txt to the filename, and its Nisus Writer icon will reappear, and it'll open in NWX.
This happens sometimes when you are editing a text file in Nisus Writer Express and assume that you still have "rtf" selected in the Save dialog. This is most often a file that was saved as text by Internet Explorer or by an application other than NWX that failed to append the proper extension. Even though NWX edited it and saved it, it still doesn't have a txt extension. That part is NWX's fault. It should check to see.
Al Hatch