Opening Attached Files

[Micky T]

Just reciveded a email with 2 attached files which i have been waiting for.

I cannot open them ;fire ;fire

a box appears saying open with,

how do i know what it opens with ??

[mathare]

Try Googling the file extension.

If your system doesn't know what to open the files with it means you don't have that file extension associated with an application which means it's something non-standard.

What are the files, if you don't mind me asking?

[Micky T]

How do i find the file extension

Tried looking at properties but :doh :doh

Mat just some mortgage info from a new broker i am trying

[mathare]

How do i find the file extension

Tried looking at properties but :doh :doh

Mat just some mortgage info from a new broker i am tryingThe files should be called something like filename.ext, it's the .ext you want to Google.

If they don't have extensions (e.g. just filename, not filename.ext) then I'm not surprised you are struggling. If this is the case I suggest you e-mail the brokers back and ask for the files in a standard recognisable format.

[Micky T]

may be a idmsg if there is such a thing

also states hyper text transfer

[mathare]

I'd get in touch with the brokers and ask for the info in a standard format

[MarcusMel]

Do you have Adobe Acrobat installed?

I usually check out whats in a file by opening it with Notepad or Wordpad.

Make sure you have un-ticked the 'always use the selected program to open this kind of file' if you do this.

[Micky T]

Thanks guys

Got it open,

Tried using all in box opened with Adobe Acrobat do not no why it never worked on auto :doh :doh

[GlosRFC]

As Matt explained, Windows associates certain filetypes with specific programs. It uses the filename extension (i.e., the three letter abbreviation that follows the period) - to see these extensions you need to open up a folder, click Tools, Folder Options, View, then uncheck the "Hide extensions for known filetypes" option

Windows will associate all files with the extension .pdf (page definition file) to the program Adobe Acrobat. The reason Acrobat didn't launch automatically is because the files you were sent were either missing the extensions (e.g. they were called file1, file2 instead of file1.pdf, file2.pdf) or the extensions were incorrect (e.g. file1.pfd, file2.pfd)

[Win2Win]

I bet Vegy understood every word of that Glos :D