How to open an autorun.inf file

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How to open an autorun.inf file

Hi all, would really appreciate info on how to open a DVD Autorun.inf file containing 1.5 GB of PDF files.

It asks for Adobe reader (which is installed) but when I try to open the file it says..

'Adobe Reader could not open 'Autorun.inf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

I have changed tried adobe to open the file and also reverted back to preview but no go. I've just spent a lot of money on the file (journals)

from the US so would love to be able to access it.
Thanks muchly, 🙂

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), newish user

Posted on Mar 15, 2015 3:14 PM

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Answer 1

rkaufmann87

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Mar 15, 2015 3:18 PM in response to daniellefrombega

Please read the article in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorun.inf

You will note that this is a text file designed for MS Windows. In short, it will not open in OS X. What exactly are you trying to achieve?

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Answer 2

Mar 15, 2015 3:37 PM in response to rkaufmann87

HI there, thanks so much for the quick reply. I basically wish to view the files (pdf copies of journals) for some research.

I realised just now that when I tried to 'open with'..it defaults to adobe reader, and when I search for preview as a preferred tool, it is not highlighted and therefore I can't click on it.

I've contacted the US company and they didn't seem to see a problem being on a mac, suggesting changing the default to preview. I guess now that is my main question, how to change that on this file?

Hope you can help.

Danielle 🙂

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Answer 3

rkaufmann87

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Mar 15, 2015 5:20 PM in response to daniellefrombega

You cannot open a .inf file using OS X, that is a MS Windows file format! However if you have pdf files those can be opened (by default) by Preview.

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