upgraded from big sur to monterey on an imac desktop and now all files within folders appear asa file conversion any help please?

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cbbt Author

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upgraded from big sur to monterey on an imac desktop and now all files within folders appear asa file conversion any help please?

OS ON MY IMAC DESKTOP

iMac 27″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Nov 30, 2023 7:31 AM

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BDAqua

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Nov 30, 2023 7:57 AM in response to cbbt

What kind of file conversion please?

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode? Could take 10 minutes.

Safe mode attempts to repair Disks & clears lots of caches & loads safe Drivers, & prevents loading of 3rd party extensions, so if Safe Mode works try again in regular boot.

Manually Rebuilding Spotlight via Terminal

If the aforementioned Spotlight control panel approach doesn’t spur a reindexation of the drive, you may need to initiate it manually through the command line. Open Terminal and use the following command string to do so:

sudo mdutil -E /

This basically asks for temporary super user status, which is why Terminal may ask you for your password (it may not if you’ve used a sudo command recently or are already logged in as a super user or root. The command asks the unix tool mdutil to reindex the spotlight database for everything on the computer, including external drives, mounted disk images, etc. To re-index only for a specific drive, use the /Volumes path. For example, for an external drive named “MiniMe,” the command would look like this:

sudo mdutil -i on /

Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.

If still need be…

Open Terminal and run each of these one at a time

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -seed -lint -r -f -v -dump -domain local -domain system -domain user -domain network

killall Dock

sudo mdutil -E /

sudo mdutil -i on /

Rebuilding a drive index can take a long time, so be prepared to wait whether you do it through the System Preference panel or the command line.

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cbbt Author

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Dec 1, 2023 6:42 AM in response to BDAqua

So went on apple support about 5-30 pm last night was on chat for almost 1hour 50 mins when connection was lost, then someone else came on saying they were reading the previous transcript. Then started askingall sorts of questions that had already been done so gave up!!

Just now have gone on a jpeg file, then get info, open with, says microsoft word, changed to preview and then pressed change all !! now all are opening up again!! Thank you for your help last night , not sure what angle apple support were coming from but there you go !!

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