Files without an extension?

I was looking in a cache for a program and saw that there were a lot of file types listed only as "Document" with no file extension.
Here is an example:
0A7D50974BFF28DC45DC276581A6C030
Now, when I press the spacebar for a preview an image comes up...so, this is an actual file...however, not having a file type (even when I do Cmd+I) there is no way to search for these "Documents".
Can anybody tell me why this is, what file types these are and how to search for them since the names are randomized and I can't search by file type?
Thanks,
J.
P.S. Yes...I have gone to Finder > Preferences > Show All Extensions....and still these "Documents" don't have a file type associated with them.

While the "Hide Extension" radio button is on the screen, it is greyed out so I cannot click/unclick it.

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Hello,
Right clicking and selecting open is exactly the answer to
the question you
asked about how to open files without an extension.
There are many young people and people just learning here, so
all questions
are answered.
How was anyone supposed to know you meant something else, and
that you
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people gave the
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"magoo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gcr7s0$m9n$00$[email protected]..
> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> Right click on the file and select Open.
>>
>>
>> "magoo" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>> news:gcr39p$r7o$01$[email protected]..
>>> Alan wrote:
>>>>> is it possible to open files without
extension in DW?
>>>>
>>>> yes- but they will be treated as a plain
text file, they won't be
>>>> associated with any type of scripting type
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>>>
>>> That`s fine, so how does it work?
>
> Wow, what an ace you are. If it was that easy I would
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>
> --
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