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None of these have worked for me
.pdf and html and all suggestions so far on this page have not enabled me to open an .aspx file on my iMac OS 10.5.8. Any other suggestions? Thank you!
.pdf and html and all suggestions so far on this page have not enabled me to open an .aspx file on my iMac OS 10.5.8. Any other suggestions? Thank you!
This worked for me. You literally change the .aspx to .pdf. You do this right on the file and you are not converting it.
Cant open .aspx files
I am still having this same issue.
Here's what I have tried.
I tried to changed extension to .pdf = no luck.
If using Safari, it opens up a blank page for me (using Adobe Reader)
If using Firefox, it opens up a "code" page with some of the info that I am trying to open.
It is just a form that I am trying to open which should populate itself with some pre-determined information.
The only way I can get this to work is through Parallel Desktop running Windows 7.
When I used Windows pc, I can open these forms no problem, and I really really have using windows and would not want to pay for Parallel when the trial expires...
Any ideas?
I am still having this same issue.
Here's what I have tried.
I tried to changed extension to .pdf = no luck.
If using Safari, it opens up a blank page for me (using Adobe Reader)
If using Firefox, it opens up a "code" page with some of the info that I am trying to open.
It is just a form that I am trying to open which should populate itself with some pre-determined information.
The only way I can get this to work is through Parallel Desktop running Windows 7.
When I used Windows pc, I can open these forms no problem, and I really really have using windows and would not want to pay for Parallel when the trial expires...
Any ideas?
I am having the exact same problems on my laptop... this is just one of many reasons why I prefer Windows over Mac. Preview (which seems to be the default for .pdf files) doesn't recognize the format at all so I can't even choose to open it with Preview. And I can't open it with my browsers either, it is either greyed out or just asks me where I want to download/save the file. It's like this computer thinks it is smarter than me telling me what programs I can and can't use to open a particular exension... what gives it the right to make those decisions for me??? DAMN YOU APPLE!!! 
.aspx are active server pages built for Internet explorer. It's not the mac. It's the fact that Microsoft intentionally creates architectures that won't play nicely with others.
It's MS way of locking you into windows, IE, and their crappy system. Anyone who wants to argue this, is welcome to do so, but in this case it's simply the truth.
I hate that my company insists on building company wide web based software on this architecture, but when you have computer science majors who haven't been given better training in more cross-platform friendly languages, that's what you end up with.
It's MS way of locking you into windows, IE, and their crappy system. Anyone who wants to argue this, is welcome to do so, but in this case it's simply the truth.
I hate that my company insists on building company wide web based software on this architecture, but when you have computer science majors who haven't been given better training in more cross-platform friendly languages, that's what you end up with.
ASP.NET is server side (if I'm reading the wiki correctly), why would it matter what browser you're using?
You can open .aspx files in any browser. This has nothing to do with MS locking you into windows or IE.
OP. Are you trying to view this file? Is it a file or a web url? Usually to view the file you need something that can edit .aspx/.asp files. Dreamweaver does, however it is not a true compiler for the framework.
If you have a windows box, you can use MS Visual Web Developer (free) to look at the file as well as dreamweaver to view the file in question. However you might not see anything with out the other files that are associated with it.
What are you trying to accomplish with this file?
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I have discovered that Safari will open them as Word docs. The problem in Firefox is that IF the site actually downloads them without trying to open them, you can go to the file in the downloads file, change the .aspx to .pdf, and Preview will open it. I do that all the time with my bank statements.
But when the site download and sends an error/fail message when trying to automatically open it, you can't correct (or change) the extension.
I guess that is in how they are programed to download.
But when the site download and sends an error/fail message when trying to automatically open it, you can't correct (or change) the extension.
I guess that is in how they are programed to download.
opening aspx files
Read the suggestions and I'm still stuck. A new MAC user and not very computer literate to begin with. Have tried to open in Safari and no luck. Cant seem to find a "save as" function, just save.
Tried this suggestion, "you can go to the file in the downloads file, change the .aspx to .pdf"...and don't know how to do this either.
Read the suggestions and I'm still stuck. A new MAC user and not very computer literate to begin with. Have tried to open in Safari and no luck. Cant seem to find a "save as" function, just save.
Tried this suggestion, "you can go to the file in the downloads file, change the .aspx to .pdf"...and don't know how to do this either.
change .aspx to .pdf
I had this issue with our mac users for years. In Firefox on a mac, the web page will try to download to the users computer. Save the file in Downloads folder. Goto download folder on Mac and rename the file extension of the file from .aspx to .pdf. Open with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Hope this works.
I had this issue with our mac users for years. In Firefox on a mac, the web page will try to download to the users computer. Save the file in Downloads folder. Goto download folder on Mac and rename the file extension of the file from .aspx to .pdf. Open with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Hope this works.
Open aspx files
I just downloaded a file, a talking book as a .zip file @ 1.05gb and it failed, so I started it again from the download page in Firefox, it worked fine, but came down as a aspx file called Directdownload.aspx and had trouble opening it with anything so I looked on Macrumors and found some answers. So I thought why not change the extension back to zip and it worked fine. So mabe that is the answer, not complicated at all. hope this helps. Mabe I should sign this as KISS.
I just downloaded a file, a talking book as a .zip file @ 1.05gb and it failed, so I started it again from the download page in Firefox, it worked fine, but came down as a aspx file called Directdownload.aspx and had trouble opening it with anything so I looked on Macrumors and found some answers. So I thought why not change the extension back to zip and it worked fine. So mabe that is the answer, not complicated at all. hope this helps. Mabe I should sign this as KISS.
Oct 2013
If you have prob here's what you do. Save file. Then right click to get info box. Change the file from aspx: xlsx, or whichever you want to open it. close info box and it should open. It did for me for spreadsheet I was trying to open with Excel.
If you have prob here's what you do. Save file. Then right click to get info box. Change the file from aspx: xlsx, or whichever you want to open it. close info box and it should open. It did for me for spreadsheet I was trying to open with Excel.