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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 16, 2008 6:50 AM
in response to: mintchocicecream
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For those that are having this problem...
Are you also having the problem after applying the Office 2008 12.1 update whereby you can't double-click open files that you received as e-mail attachments?
Files made/saved on the Mac open fine -- but something you received as an attachment will no longer be double-click openable?
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 16, 2008 3:15 PM
in response to: Steve Maser
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Files received as email attachments open just fine. They also don't suffer from the extra extension problem.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 16, 2008 3:22 PM
in response to: mintchocicecream
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Even weirder.. I have uninstalled Office using Microsoft's uninstaller, and .doc files are still named .doc.dot by Safari. Considering that there's no application available to open them something must have stuck. Any ideas where this information is saved?
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 17, 2008 7:04 AM
in response to: Tim Fall
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I can confirm that 12.1 does not solve the problem.
It just shows how Microsoft don't care about customers if they're unwilling to solve this problem. Also, it might like - one of the many - marketing scams to make people not use Mac OS X but return to Windows. It's speculated that's why they're not releasing OneNote for Mac, to get students to buy PC's instead - since Macs are now more popular there. They also saw opportunity in the One Laptop Per Child scheme, so instead of Linux - kids in the developing world will be stuck with Windows. Blah.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 19, 2008 12:43 PM
in response to: praseodym
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i removed office 08 using said uninstaller and i still also get the .dot .pot etc filenames at the end of my files downloaded with safari.
this tells me that it may be an issue with safari?
powerbook 17" 1.5ghz 2gb ram
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using iWork 08. SCREW OFFICE!
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 19, 2008 12:45 PM
in response to: praseodym
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oops double post
Message was edited by: chris tuftsmania
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 22, 2008 10:00 AM
in response to: Steve Maser
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I can double-click the downloaded .doc.dot files, and they open just fine.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 24, 2008 7:40 AM
in response to: odysseus
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I edited the plist as per the instructions in the beginning of this thread, and then ran Onyx to clear the caches, but it's still not working.
Here's a screen shot of my Word 2008 Info.plist:
http://members.mac.com/mike.barca/info.png
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 2:04 AM
in response to: mintchocicecream
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Greetings!
I have got around this problem. I have my iMac that had Office 2004 on it and I upgrade to 2008. Safari on my iMac did not save the .doc as .dot, it work fine.
When I got my MacBook Air I installed Office 2008 on it right away. I did suffer the .doc to .dot Safari problem, even after the 12.0.1 and 12.1.0 rollouts.
I did play with the fixed listed in this thread, but didn't want mess office up too much. I also knew that my iMac was working fine with out any fixes. I wanted to play that on my MacBook Air.
I use my MacBook Air the most of papers and Online College stuff and really need it to work properly with the browser and Office.
So...
I remove Office from my MB Air (trashing the Office 2008 Apps Folder and the /user/Lib../Peref.../micorsoft.office.pfile file.. ) and reboot.
I reinstalled my Office 2004 (no patching)
Clear my Trash
Started my reinstall of my Office 2008, (rebooted), Patched with SP1 (12.1.0) and Reboot.
Launched Work 2008 (slow starting from the install), Closed it.
Launched Safari and downloaded a Word Document from my College site with out any problems.
That is my "Microsoft fix".... =)
Something left behind from 2004 for 2008 to deal with.
LOL .... 2004-2008... four year term.
Respectfully,
Jesse from Korea
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 1:32 PM
in response to: mintchocicecream
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I finally got a working solution for this. first of all update to the latest verion of office.
then:
copy and paste this command to the teminal application and hit enter:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
That should Rebuild the launchservices database and fix the problem. at least did it for me.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 1:38 PM
in response to: mauricios
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You can also rebuild launch services using Onyx. However, when I've done this the problem returns after running Word once and rebooting. Let us know if your command line solution is more permanent.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 2:40 PM
in response to: mintchocicecream
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ok so cardsdoc was righ mt method didnt survived the reboot but here is a complete solution to the problem:
firs of all do this which is posted in a previous message.
This should fix the problem with .doc.dot
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1. Go to the Office folder in the Applications folder in the Finder
2. Right (or ctrl) click Word and "Show Package Contents"
3. Open "Contents" and "Info.plist"
4. It should open in Property List Editor
5. Click the arrow next to "Root"
6. Scroll down and click the arrow next to "UTExportedTypeDeclarations"
7. Scroll down and click the arrow next to number "2"
8. Click the arrow next to "UTTypeTagSpecification"
9. Select the row "public.mime-type"
10. Hit "Delete"
11. Save and close
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You can fix the problem for PowerPoint and Excel too. Same steps as above except:
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2. Right click on PowerPoint or Excel
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7. This is the part that is a little tricky, search the number in which there is the extension that powerpoint or excel is converting the files to .pot .xlt etc.. this is speciefed next to UTTypeIdentifier.
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THEN
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copy and paste this command to the teminal application and hit enter:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
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this method survived the reboot the only problem for me was that after i did this for the first time .ppt stoped to be .ppt.pot indeed but it became .ppt.pps so i just repeated from the step 7 but this time i looked for the .pps number and entered the command again, then everything worked perfecly
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 3:29 PM
in response to: mauricios
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This solution has been tried before. It does solve the problem at hand, but breaks the ability of Office 2008 to distinguish between template (.dot) and documents (.doc).
See above posts in this thread for the results.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
Posted:
May 28, 2008 8:29 PM
in response to: Tim Fall
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what Tim Fall said is totally false ive downloaded some templates from here http://www.microsoft.com/mac/templates.mspx and it keeps the .dot extension on those files, my solution works just fine.
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Re: Safari appends .dot to all .doc files after Word 2008
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May 28, 2008 9:44 PM
in response to: mauricios
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What you did is a slightly modified version of the first post in this forum. It does solve the problem for .doc file, but may change the way Office handles .dot and other template files. See the results of the first post in this forum.
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