Thanks, I was wondering. I am not really bothered by them at all. In fact it is quite cool? So it means ‘file’ in Chinese. Something that is useful for me to know in fact. It will be useful one day I am sure!
I’m not seeing an issue here. In the Finder, select the file and press Command-I to open the Get Info pane. What is reported there?
Same thing. I will put a screenshot. I will say @BLUEFROG this isn’t bothering me at all. I just mentioned it FYI if you will. two files went that way. One called “The Republican Party”
Same thing.
So the Finder reports the filename with the Hanzi characters too?
No the Finder says just md under “Kind”.
I’m also seeing the exact same problem as OP: suddenly my Markdown files all have the kind ‘md’ while Finder reports them as ‘Markdown document’. They all have the extension .md
. Any suggestions how to fix?
Does a reboot fix this?
Yes - it ultimately did - thanks!
I had no idea how to fix it by the way. I forgot about it to tell you the truth!
Currently my markdown files on one Mac have a Markdonw “kind”:
Any idea way? (No I don’t have at any time switched on Japanese locale.)
And how I can fix this? (Restart doesn’t change it.)
Is this identical to the kind in the Finder?
Strangely yes!
So it is not a DEVONthink thing, right? But where on earth does it come from?
No, it’s definitely not a DEVONthink thing. Our app gets the information from the Finder.
Try logging out and back in or rebooting to see if it persists.
Thanks. Did another restart. Still the strange Markdown kind. Nowhere else I have Japanese stuff…
Actually, the characters are not Japanese, but Chinese…
Still, I have no idea how to fix this. Will hunt further…
Do you use any third-party apps supporting Markdown? The information provided by these apps might be used by the Finder and cause this.
I can’t recall what Markdown editors I have experimented with. So for the moment I just live with the funny Markdown File Kind. I’m sure when I do a clean install for the next major OS upgrade it’ll disappear…
The issue did appear on MPU a couple of years back too. I think the conclusion was that it was as @cgrunenberg suggested the third party app Bear was responsible in some way which I didn’t understand. It happened to me I think but sorted itself out on a re start or update, I honestly can’t remember.
Well, I think I did try Bear a year ago or so…
Thanks for the link to MPU - will check it out.