Unidentified files
 

Hi, first let me say that in all other aspects i find limewire a really cool program, but i am having problems opening some downloaded files.I know this problem probably has been answered a 1000 times but please humour me.I am running os 9.2 and some dowmloaded files appear as a blank sheet of paper, some of these unzip, but just contain more blank paper files which do not open or have associated applications. in particular i have downloaded a toast file, but finder says it is an limewire document, i realise some downloaded file may me for a higher os and there fore un readable but i am sure that this is not always the case, any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

What extensions did the files originally have?

In the meantime, here's a couple more ideas in adddition to the info already posted (a search for "limewire document" will give more. Here's one link for starts).

if the file had an "exe" extension--forget it--those are mostly Windows programs

-if you know the extension these files should have, as shown in the search results, just add it yourself after the file completes, since OS9 will truncate long file names.

-if you know what the file type/creator codes are supposed to be, you can use something like File Type to set the icon properly. btw--Filetype also runs on MacOS 8.6

--if nothing else works, try using a program that can look at the first bit of a file as text. I recall very limited success using Norton or BBEdit to to see what program created the file back in the day.

Cheers

unknown files
 

Hey, thanks for the help, downloaded filetype and i think that it will be some help.No luck yet, but i am looking for a particular file on limewire so am downloading a lot of different things, so im sure some are not meant for os 9.2 or even mac os, but i cant tell until ive had a go at trying to get them to run. im actually looking for a disc copy mount, to override a original disc request for a particular program, no idea what file format it might have anyway, the search continues, thanks for the help.