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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1895188" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>TextEdit is a text editor, not really a word processor. Opening those files in TextEdit will cause you to lose just about all of the original formatting, and make it extremely difficult to retrieve the portion of any documents that were saved using Fast Saves.</p><p></p><p>If you don't want me to convert the files for you, and you like the idea of recovering just the text in the files using a text editor, let me recommend a free text editor that is a lot more powerful (but still easy to use) than TextEdit and which has tools to make it easier to clean up the extraneous stuff in each of those documents:</p><p></p><p>Tex-Edit Plus (free)</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]http://tex-edit.com/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Tex-Edit Plus has a fairly unique Tools menu --> Cleanup Document command that will make short work of extraneous code and other things that aren't text. I don't know if Tex-Edit Plus runs on 64-bit only versions of the Mac OS though. So it might not run on Catalina or Big Sur.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1895188, member: 190607"] TextEdit is a text editor, not really a word processor. Opening those files in TextEdit will cause you to lose just about all of the original formatting, and make it extremely difficult to retrieve the portion of any documents that were saved using Fast Saves. If you don't want me to convert the files for you, and you like the idea of recovering just the text in the files using a text editor, let me recommend a free text editor that is a lot more powerful (but still easy to use) than TextEdit and which has tools to make it easier to clean up the extraneous stuff in each of those documents: Tex-Edit Plus (free) [URL unfurl="true"]http://tex-edit.com/[/URL] Tex-Edit Plus has a fairly unique Tools menu --> Cleanup Document command that will make short work of extraneous code and other things that aren't text. I don't know if Tex-Edit Plus runs on 64-bit only versions of the Mac OS though. So it might not run on Catalina or Big Sur. [/QUOTE]
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