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I just got an issue, can't open my study files from mine memory card. How could i open files? How that happened that I was able to open 20 min ago and now all my files not able to open. Thanks in advance. Halyna.
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Files with this icon can be an actual Unix executable. But most of the time, it simply means, “I don’t know what this is.”
If the files have no extension, or recognizable Type/Creator codes, the system will treat them as unknown. Since these were on your memory card (flash drive?), you would know what app is supposed to open them.
If you know a particular file is for Microsoft Word, add the .docx extension to the file name.
Files with this icon can be an actual Unix executable. But most of the time, it simply means, “I don’t know what this is.”
If the files have no extension, or recognizable Type/Creator codes, the system will treat them as unknown. Since these were on your memory card (flash drive?), you would know what app is supposed to open them.
If you know a particular file is for Microsoft Word, add the .docx extension to the file name.
Files NAMED file.exe are Windows executable files, and will not run without Windows (or certain emulators) installed.
Files with this Icon are Unix (possibly for Mac) executable. They could be important files, or they could be garbages files.
For reasonable advice, the names of the files are needed:
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They can also be non-text, filesystem orphans for which no application currently remains available to open them. Thus, they fail the magic file test, and the operating system tells the Finder to assign them the exec icon.
One file type that exhibits this orphan exec behavior is old AppleWorks .cwk files on Lion and later. Even on a machine that has Pages '09, or LibreOffice installed, either of which can open the .cwk word processing files, or other AppleWorks file types if LibreOffice alone.
The OP will not be able to open these files without the installation of the application that created them. Since the OP was recently opening these files, the question would be what application was removed, or is on an unmounted external drive?
I do not have Windows installed and I was able to open the same files (what i am strangle to open now) and use them without any issues. Could not understand how this happened that all my files showing on black with label written EXEC?
Exec files are Windows executable which are not capable of being run on a Mac unless you have Windows installed.
How to open EXEC file on Mac and why they are appear?
