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Diagnosing a Spotlight bug in Big Sur: failure to index RTF content

Why can’t my Macs find text in Rich Text files? This explains how to diagnose the cause – which here is a bug in Big Sur’s Spotlight importer for RTF.

February 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Putting the text back into mail

Why should anyone still want to work with email messages in text? Here’s why, and how you can benefit too.

August 7, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

File Integrity 7 : Which other file formats are resilient?

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Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?

April 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

DelightEd version 2.0b4 can now read more Unicode text

Thanks to Michele, who discovered one of those rare Unicode UTF-16 text files, found that DelightEd couldn’t make […]

February 21, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Should you use document metadata?

Is it worth entering author name, title, keywords and so on in a document’s Properties?

August 3, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Rich Text documents: RTF and RTFD

What are the differences, what can you do with each of the two formats, and when should you use them?

July 30, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Metadata and iCloud

Apple’s attitude to document metadata remains ambivalent. But macOS does offer good support for extended attributes to pass through iCloud, if you know how to access it.

July 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Updates for DelightEd and Podofyllin

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Bringing code integrity checking at each app launch, and automatic checking and download of future updates.

June 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Podofyllin now exports Rich Text and delves deeper into PDF documents

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Save a Rich Text version of any PDF document, and explore its PDF code further, gaining clues as to potential problems and leakage, and more.

April 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens the rich text content of PDFs, as well as HTML, RTF and text files

This Rich Text editor now opens and saves RTF, plain text, HTML, and PDF, in which it preserves as much text styling as possible.

April 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

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