.Sav files turnt into Unix Executables on a USB external drive

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.Sav files turnt into Unix Executables on a USB external drive

I had some game files from Steam on another Imac; which I accessed through Application Support, the game, and then the save files, which were formatted in .sav.

I put them onto my USB by simply dragging and placing; and they all turned into Unix Executable files, useless to place into my game save file on my laptop, me bewildered. I know something you can do in terminal like chmod x or something, but it doesn't work, simply just giving me a body of text, and no file.

Why is it in UNIX, when it was originally a 'textedit' file according to the 'info' option, and how do I resolve this?

.sav file

turned into Unix.

Cannot use in my preference.

iMac, iOS 10.0.3

Posted on Jan 8, 2018 3:43 PM

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VikingOSX

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Jan 11, 2018 5:51 AM in response to ningfrommarkham

UNIX systems employ a magic database that maps known file extensions to applications. The .sav extension maps to nothing, so it gets the black and green exec identity. It is still a .sav file, but you need to associate those .sav file extensions with the Steam application on the destination Mac. You can do that by right-clicking on a given .sav file, and selecting Get Info. In the Open With section on that Get Info panel, select the Steam application as the default opening application.

You would only use the chmod +x if you wanted to mark a script executable before running it. You have a .sav data file which has nothing to do with executable, despite the icon saying exec. I have a bunch of AppleWorks documents here that because AppleWorks is not installed, they appear as exec icons. Doesn't change their content though.

The default file format for TextEdit is .rtf, and in plain text mode, it is .txt.

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