Is there a solution?- .dat files change to .txt files


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Can't rename the extension or doesn't know how? To rename it she will need to make sure she deselects 'hide known file types' in folder options. If doesn't have access to that she could use a batch file although I'm not sure how to write one.

Hi. He's talking about me here. When I click to "save as" the dat file he sent, it wants to be saved as a txt document. Even if I rename it to whatever.dat, and choose 'all file types', it still saves as a txt doc. So I do know how to rename, but it won't become a dat file. I don't know if the admins here might block us from saving dat files. Normally when I try and do something that's not allowed, I get an error. This time there's no error. The dats just insist on saving as txt files.

There's probably no fix, but we figured we'd throw it out and see if anyone had any ideas. Thanks. :)

The DAT file format is a non-standard file format which is usually program or application specific. Simply renaming a file with the .dat extension will not change it to that file format. Your best bet is to send the DAT files in a compressed (zipped) folder.

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