Which extensions have these files? A blank document means only that you haven´t selected a standard player/viewer for this format (at least on Windows).

Morgwen

Morgwen wrote:

Which extensions have these files? A blank document means only that you haven´t selected a standard player/viewer for this format (at least on Windows).

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They have none. It's just a blank icon, with the file name under it and NO extension. If you do not have an extension on a file, the Finder will not know what programs to run it with. The quickest solution for anyone running the classic mac OS with this problem, is to just go and get the freeware .mp3 player, SoundApp. You go into it's preferences and make the creator type (file association) 'SoundApp', and it will automatically change the file icon to an .mp3 icon when you play it. If you open a playlist and drag and drop the blank icon DL'ed files into it it will play them. If it can't, you know you've got a bunk file. I prefer that to QuickTime, as it is a better player - also it makes playlists and can expand .mp3's to *true* uncompressed, non-DRM (Digital Rights Managed)'ed, .aiff CD files.

Sometimes older IS better, in this increasingly digitally locked and restricted world.

Since when its possible to download files without a extension? I never heard this... and I never downloaded such a file!

Morgwen

Filenames in Classic Mac OS are limited to 31 characters. The only exception is Mac OS 9 which can handle longer filenames but the Finder can't display them...

You've got OS9 right? If so, it's because that version is different in how it handled filenames from earlier OS's. OS9 lopped out the middle letters and left the ends on. In 8.6 and earlier, the OS just read the filenames 31 characters long and if it ran out of space to get the file designation in - oh well... Ooops. Not good for those who generally launch applications by clicking on the file icon. No designation, and the 'puter has no idea of what to do with the file. If it is an unassociated file *type*, like an .mp3 file from someone with Macast, it will at least ask you what application to handle the file with. If you don't add the filetype, it doesn't know what is what.

After I read it, its good that I don´t use OS9 and I sure will never do...

Thanks for the info.

Morgwen

I just use FinderPop (one of the coolest shareware programs ever made) to convert the creator codes to my player of choice (SoundJam, ITunes, Quicktime, etc.).

If you don't have FinderPop, you can use various Applescripts to change file types and creator codes at the desktop.

for os9 ther are no vireses prty much also all y have to do is add .mp3

I go thru the download, verifying and savinig only to find the file is still a LIMEWIRE document, and therfore useless(?).
Alsom is a .dmg a "Dmaged" filer?

No, .dmg is a disk image file... you have to burn it on a CD or need an emulator to open it.

Morgwen