I am helping someone retrieve "lost" files from an MS-DOS based database. It turns out the files are not lost (whoo-hoo!), but they are not in the same folder as the DOS-based program (which is on the same computer, and DOES have files in different directories that I can see).
So the files I need to put back into the working database are on the c drive. (OS is Windows XP).
My problem is that I tried to open the "unrecognozable" file in Wordpad (to see what I was looking at). It didn't open, but now this file and about 6 others have a WordPad icon. How do I switch the file extension back to the original "unrecognizable" extension so that I'm back at what I started with? (BTW, the files that changed have/had extension .cml)
Any help appreciated!
T-