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@Molly: Is the file a...

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@Molly: Is the file a...

Submitted by JoshD (not verified) on February 18, 2005 - 7:53am.

@Molly:

Is the file a .txt file or a .rtf or .rtfd file in TextEdit?

Not on a mac right now, but I think you can only append to plain text. That could be causing your problem.

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Quicksilver: Append to a text file from _anywhere_ By: Merlin Mann (33 replies) September 4, 2004 - 5:43am
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