It could be that these have text formatting. If you bold face, use italics, color the text, etc textedit saves the file in "rich text format" or rtf for short. Without having seen the file, that's what it sounds like to me. Norm Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile. -----Original Message----- From: nk <netkat at comcast.net> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:44 To:"A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."<x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Subject: [X4U] Transferred Text Edit files messed up I've already tangled with transferring a load of Text Edit files from one Mac to another, finding I couldn't open them, and learning the solution was to Zip the folder, THEN transfer them. That solution worked. Basically. Now I"m seeing that some of these transferred files are *loaded* with all sorts of wierd code...long strings of it, and peppered throughout with backslashes. I find this to be problematic, because when I transfer a file, my expectation is that the file is, simply, moved to a new computer without being mangled or having whacky code inserted into it. I've never seen this happen with any of my video, photoshop, or 3D files, or really ANY other than Text Edit files. Can someone tell me why Text Edit files sometimes get mangled when transferred (even if zipped first) and how to stop it from happening in the future? thank you! n _______________________________________________ X4U mailing list X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal