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- Feb 18, 2002
If you have Microsoft Office installed, any version, and you create a file with a .mar extension, or even if you have an existing file and change its extension to .mar - it automatically turns that file into a Microsoft Access Report Shortcut file - it converts it into a shortcut instead of a file and changing the file extension back to original *does not* get it back. This is crazy. How do you disable this behavior?
So in other words, create a test .txt file and type whatever you want in that .txt file. Imagine it's important data.
If someone comes along and changes that file's .txt extension to .mar on a computer where Microsoft Office is installed, it basically ruins the file for average computer users.
I figured out that I can rescue the files from DOS but how can they be rescued back from within Windows? How do we put a stop to this Microsoft Access Report Shortcut file takeover nonsense?
EDIT:
So in other words, create a test .txt file and type whatever you want in that .txt file. Imagine it's important data.
If someone comes along and changes that file's .txt extension to .mar on a computer where Microsoft Office is installed, it basically ruins the file for average computer users.
I figured out that I can rescue the files from DOS but how can they be rescued back from within Windows? How do we put a stop to this Microsoft Access Report Shortcut file takeover nonsense?
EDIT:
I think I got it:
Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program > scroll down to .mar and double click on it > Notepad
This effectively fixes the problem by disassociating .mar files away from Microsoft Access.
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