Hello...and please help :)

[Aaron]

I find that using Save As rather than renaming the file with a right click helps avoid the problem ShadowChemosh mentioned.

[Vellcrow]

I still cannot get it to work. I copy the text, paste it into MS Word or Notepad, try to save it as a user file with .user, but each time it comes up with .txt at the end.

Sorry to be such a pain with this.

[risner]

Originally Posted by Vellcrow

I still cannot get it to work. I copy the text, paste it into MS Word or Notepad, try to save it as a user file with .user, but each time it comes up with .txt at the end..

open up cmd.exe
cd to the directory
then do this:
move "Fixed-Disguise.user.txt" "Fixed-Disguise.user"

[Vellcrow]

Originally Posted by risner

open up cmd.exe
cd to the directory
then do this:
move "Fixed-Disguise.user.txt" "Fixed-Disguise.user"

YES!!! That did it! It took me a bit to find out how to use the right wording in cmd.exe, but it finally worked.

Thank you!

[Sendric]

Incidentally, I use ConText as my text editor. It doesn't force me to save as a .txt file. Something to consider. Also, of course, you can simply open the .user file in the HL editor and edit files that way.

[mirtos]

personally, i like both notepad++ and jedit (the latter is in java, but the advantage of that is its an editor you can learn to use and then have it on mac, windows, whatever)

but yeah, i agree, i hate editors that auto append things to the filenames.

[Aardvark892]

Thank you to everyone involved in this. I had the same problem. Is it possible to change the title of the thread to assist others in the future with finding this fix? Thank you.