Just a quick follow up: > > For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually > track down some terminal script to change the file "kind" - in the meantime > I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook > preview.
This actually proved to be even easier than I thought - Google pointed me to this automator action: <http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/changefiletypeandcreator.ht ml> Using the "select file" button on the automator action to select a "working" csv file populated the "file type" box with "TEXT" and the "creator" box with "XCEL". Then running the automator action on one of the "problem" files resets the "kind" to "text" and now quicklook and the get info preview pane preview the .csv file just fine. Which just leaves me with the main problem of how to get the .csv files downloaded with the correct settings in the first place! Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 23/11/08 5:09 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > The thing is quicklook has no problem seeing all my .csv files which were > downloaded before "something' changed when I re-installed everything in > October. > > So my Commsec .csv files downloaded previous to the problem appearing show > just fine in quicklook ie file type 1) in my original post: > > - Get info shows "kind" as "text" and "open with" as "Microsoft Excel" > - Get info icon is an Excel icon > > But since the re-install and my telling finder to open all .csv with Excel > (I'm not sure of the chicken & egg effect here) my Commsec .csv files > download differently - ie file type 2) in my original post: > > - Get info shows "kind" as "Microsoft Excel Document" and "open with" as > "Microsoft Excel" > - Get info icon is a blank page icon > > So my problem is not getting quicklook to preview .csv files > (comma-separated values) - which after all are basically just (delimited) > text files - as long as the file "kind" is "text" both quicklook and the get > info preview pane can handle the .csv file just fine. > > The problem is that now the .csv files are downloading with the file "kind" > as "Microsoft Excel Document" > > Excel itself doesn't care and opens up both types (as a microsoft > application it possibly only works on the .csv extension?) and, in fact, is > the default application set to "open with" for both file types. > > Quicklook (and the get info preview pane) however must expect a "Microsoft > Excel Document" to have a certain format - and presumably deal with it > accordingly (so they display real .xls excel files just fine) - so, > presumably, since the .csv files don't meet their expectations they just > show a generic "blank page" document preview. > > In other words, the way I see it, the problem is not trying to work out how > to get quicklook to view .csv files - it does that just fine as long as it > knows it is a text file - the problem is how to get the .csv files to > download as "text" files rather than "Microsoft Excel Document" files. > > For the files that are already downloaded, I expect that I can eventually > track down some terminal script to change the file "kind" - in the meantime > I have no problems opening the files so I can live without the quicklook > preview. > > What I am really trying to find out here is how to get my original download > parameters back so that the .csv files just normally download as file "kind" > = "text" - which is how it was all working until last month! > > The problem is that during the download process, I don't know how, when or > by what the file "kind" of the downloaded file is set so I don't really know > where to look for any preferences which have been changed to cause this. > > Anybody got any ideas on this one? > > > Cheers > > > Neil -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
