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Jan 16, 2016 2:00 PM in response to stuartfrommaeystownby red_menace,The file command just tries to determine the file type based on what it knows about various file formats, and is more or less a guess. The file may have issues with permissions or whatever you are using to edit it.
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Jan 16, 2016 3:35 PM in response to red_menaceby stuartfrommaeystown,Yes, and the file command is usually pretty accurate. The question is why is the file getting truncated? It's not specific to the editor because the file has been edited with emacs (in terminal), Aquamacs, and TextWrangler. It is possible, though not verified that it happens after doing "Repair Disk Permissions" in Disk Utility. There doesn't seem to be anything odd about the permissions:
-rw-r--r-- 1 sg staff 925857 Jan 16 14:11 notes
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by rccharles,Jan 17, 2016 2:04 PM in response to stuartfrommaeystown
rccharles
Jan 17, 2016 2:04 PM
in response to stuartfrommaeystown
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Classic Mac OSPerhaps someother app is using the name notes. I'd rename the file. Create a backup. Try myComments.txt or notes.txt. You could try changing the permissions to read only. Might get some error message.