Photoshop files mysteriously converted to textedit?

I went to open a bunch of photos that were in Photoshop on my Mac- and they were mysteriously converted to textedit?
How can I convert it back to it's proper format- Photoshop?
I tried to open command I (information) and "open with Photoshop", and that didn't work- kept saying Photoshop won't recognize format..
Any answers on why this happened?

Having an extension on a file will indicate to a program what kind of file it is. If your Mac sees a file and doesn't know what kind it is it may just default to TextEdit even if TE doesn't know how to open that kind of file. If you put a Photoshop extension (.psd ? - I don't know) at the end of a file it will tell the Mac that this is a Photoshop file. Be careful because if you put a Photoshop extension on an Office Excel file it will confuse the computer and Excel when it tries to open the file! If these are JPEG files and you put .jpeg at the end of the file it may have several effects. One will be it will get automatically flagged to open in whatever program is designated in LaunchServices to open jpeg files. That may be Preview but you can change this with the get info feature. The other may be (and I don't have PS to test this) that if Photoshop sees a file without an extension it may have to approach it carefully, or not at all, because it is an unknown. If it has the .jpeg or .jpg extension then it knows it is a JPEG format file (because you told it) and can open it immediately.
Use a utility such as PSRenamer or Renamer4Mac to add extensions to groups of files.
I hope this solved the problem for you.

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