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Sun, 02/03/2013 - 12:08 — RLHarris

having trouble with downloading XML files. Everytime I download one it is saved to my desktop (Mac OSX 10.5.8) as a .mxl file. WHAT DO I DO???????????

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Lance Harris
Director of Music Ministries
Community Presbyterian Church
Louisville, KY


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Mon, 02/04/2013 - 01:07 — Haruo

I don't know much about Macs, but what I do when my PC saves them with a wrong extension is just edit the extension to read .xml, and when it saves them with an added extension, I simply remove the addition (i.e. sometimes they save as abcdefg.xls, in which case I the change the "ls" to "ml" and then they work fine; other times, they save as abcdefg.xml.xls, in which case I just delete the ".xls" part and then they work fine). As I say, I don't know if your Mac will let you do this. I also don't know why my PC insists on (often but not always) doing this.

Fri, 02/08/2013 - 10:24 — hplantin

The .mxl files are best used with the free MuseScore program. Google it, download it, and install it. Then the files should open automatically for you.

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