Text files showing up as binary in Yosemite
Anyone having trouble with text files?
I have a dumpster of text files in which I keep a lot of general information, including lots of knowledgebase items I keep handy. I have my text files set to open with TextWrangler. I've used this as the main way I work since 10.6 -- I search with Alfred/Spotlight, and GREP search text files with TextWrangler. This is the way I keep lots and lots of general notes that I need to reference.
Well, with Yosemite, it previews all previous plain .txt files as binary, or at least that's what it looks like. When I open and save them, they are now binary static/noise, and that's how they save.
If I create a brand new text file and save as a .txt file with TextWrangler, then everything is fine.
I don't think this is TextWrangler's fault, because previewing/opening files with other text editors, such as even TextEdit, still shows binary.
As described above, this is pretty much a baseball bat right into my spokes. It makes Yosemite unusable for me.
The general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts (all languages) with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Find and remove all duplicates also.
Start there to be sure all fonts that are in play come out with a clean bill of health.
Also, don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.
By all means be sure your 3rd party apps are Snow Leopard compatible and know the rumors are that 10.6.2 will be play better w/fonts in some cases.
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