S Sgtarky macrumors regular Original poster Feb 11, 2015 #1 here is what my textedit files are looking like.
D drew627 macrumors regular Feb 11, 2015 #2 It opened a .rtf as a regular text file. No idea why that happened though.
chown33 Moderator Staff member Feb 11, 2015 #3 drew627 said: It opened a .rtf as a regular text file. No idea why that happened though. Click to expand... Open the TextEdit > Preferences window. Look for a checkbox "Ignore rich text commands in RTF files". Make sure it's unchecked.
drew627 said: It opened a .rtf as a regular text file. No idea why that happened though. Click to expand... Open the TextEdit > Preferences window. Look for a checkbox "Ignore rich text commands in RTF files". Make sure it's unchecked.
L leman macrumors Core Feb 12, 2015 #5 There is a Format option Rich text vs plain text. Is it set to rich text?
B Bruno09 macrumors 68020 Feb 12, 2015 #6 Uncheck the second tick box in this TextEdit Preferences window. (not the highlighted one) "Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text".
Uncheck the second tick box in this TextEdit Preferences window. (not the highlighted one) "Display RTF files as RTF code instead of formatted text".