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PDFs are now all showing as HTML. Help!
As of yesterday, all of the pdfs stored in Dropbox on my laptop are showing as Chrome HTMLs. I usually open them in Adobe Reader but am not able to anymore. They open as a webpage. Did I change some setting by mistake? I thought that it was perhaps an Adobe problem, so uninstalled and reinstalled that. And I searched this forum to see if this question had already been answered, but didn't see it addressed. Please help!
Sorry to talk to myself on here, but I thought that it might help someone else in the future. Google was my friend and provided me with the answer of how to change them back to pdfs. Solution: right click any of the documents/HTMLs. Choose Properties. Choose General - Opens With - Change. Select Adobe (or whatever program you would like to use to open your pdfs.)
I've dug in a little more and it appears that all pdfs that I download are downloading as HTMLs, whether they go into Dropbox or my download folder...ugh. So my limited knowledge/expertise would tell me that this is likely a Chrome setting as opposed to a Dropbox issue. But why would it change ALL pdfs to HTML, even ones downloaded or saved years ago? Any insight would be great, as this is really slowing my flow.
Sorry to talk to myself on here, but I thought that it might help someone else in the future. Google was my friend and provided me with the answer of how to change them back to pdfs. Solution: right click any of the documents/HTMLs. Choose Properties. Choose General - Opens With - Change. Select Adobe (or whatever program you would like to use to open your pdfs.)
