text to BTE

Jim von Krieg · 11-30-2009, 06:23 AM,

I need a technical assist...

One of my opponents sent me an unzipped turn, but when I DL from yahoo it goes from a BTE associated file to a txt associated file and the game doesn't recognize it. It keeps the .BTE, but it is associated with a txt file and CS doesn't seem to recognize it as a PBEM file.

Any suggestions?

**Jason Petho** · 11-30-2009, 06:32 AM,

Ask them to resend it zipped?

Jason Petho

Jim von Krieg · 11-30-2009, 06:34 AM,

Nothing to get it unassociated with txt file? I'm playing, but so far no joy.

Jim von Krieg · 11-30-2009, 06:39 AM,

Luckily, his e-mail includes a second file... I can DL all and get a zip file... which keeps the file bte...

However, it seems once a file on its own is associated w/ txt I can't get it back to bte...

**Jason Petho** · 11-30-2009, 11:33 AM,

Jim von Krieg Wrote:Luckily, his e-mail includes a second file... I can DL all and get a zip file... which keeps the file bte...

However, it seems once a file on its own is associated w/ txt I can't get it back to bte...

What do you open txt files with?

Maybe changing the opening program to WordPad or something might help?

Of course, you couldn't do a save as, you would just have to change the extention.

test.txt
test.bte

Jason Petho

Jim von Krieg · 11-30-2009, 02:56 PM,

It reminds me of issues I had when I had AOL back in the day... it was still a .bte file, but it became associated with txt... which I could not seem to undo... it seem to be occurring in the yahoo download function...

Larry Reese · 11-30-2009, 06:05 PM,

I suspect the intermediary is modifying the file based on a default, or the Windows set up is doing that somehow. I used to have problems with unzipped files way back in the day too; I'm running Firefox/Thunderbird now and haven't ever had a problem (but then I do a lot of customization to the operating system too). Best of luck with it. Good to have you back on the board and in the CONUS man.

LR