Opening Downloads

Discussion in 'Mac - General discussion' started by edailey, Dec 28, 2006.

  1. edailey

    edailey Member

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    I am new to MAc and OS10. How do I open down loads. I click on the Icon and it asks me what program to open with. One is text and the others are VCD players etc. Thanks Ed
     
  2. david456

    david456 Regular member

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    Hello edailey,

    You can open text documents with either Mac OS X's TextEdit or Microsoft Word. A good Mac media player (which plays VCDs) is VLC Media Player version 0.8.6.

    Regards.
     
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    what are you downloading?
    videos? music? software?
    is it mac compatible?

    if you right click and it shows vlc, chances are, its a video file. vlc usually plays pretty much anything you throw at it.
     
  4. tabletpc

    tabletpc Guest

    ok is it

    .RAR>need unarchiver to unrar file (free app)

    .ZIP>need uncrchiver to unzip file (free app)

    .DMG>should open no matter what

    .EXE>does not work on mac if you downloaded this and the zip or rar or dmg said mac it then is a virus and should be immediatly deleted

    also on another note certain video files need flip4mac

    free version
     
  5. david456

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    Unarchiver will expand compressed or encoded files, but don't forget the classic Mac file decoder/expander that is also a universal binary: Stuffit Expander.

    Aside from running Windows with either Boot Camp or Parallels, .exe files can be run with either Darwine/WineHelper or CrossOver on a Mac without installing Windows.
     

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