Stop UltraEdit "File is probably not DOS format" Error Message

If you use UltraEdit as your text editor and edit a lot of Linux/Unix files, you’ve no doubt encountered the “File is probably not DOS format” message every single time you open a file. So irritating…

There’s an easy fix to get around this frustrating error message:

Just go to Advanced \ Configuration from the dropdown menu.

In the Configuration dialog, choose File Handling and then DOS/UNIX/MAC Handling in the left-hand tree menu.

Under UNIX/MAC file detection/conversion, just choose Disable to make the error message go away. UltraEdit will no longer prompt you to convert the files, but don’t worry, it will keep them in their original format.

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This article was originally written on 05/30/07 Tagged with: Programming

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Comments (8)

1. July 11, 2008 4:59 am
   S

   Hi,

   Thanks for the great Tip. I was really irritated with the error message, till I read your article!!
   Thanks!!

2. October 3, 2008 7:46 am
   R

   Gr8 to see this. Now got rid of this annoying mesg…

3. December 30, 2008 6:24 pm
   David

   Thanks a LOT! This was extremely annoying.

4. January 11, 2009 12:39 pm
   Patsy

   Thank You so much! That message constantly popping up was very irritating. I can’t see why the developer doesn’t disable that by the default. Nobody uses it.

5. February 18, 2009 4:51 am
   Alex

   Ah, what e relief Thanks a lot! Great Tip.

6. April 27, 2009 3:43 pm
   Patrick Gryciuk

   Thanks for the tip ^_^

7. May 27, 2009 9:33 pm
   Dumbass

   Thanks for this tip. This was really starting to annoy me.

8. May 28, 2009 3:04 pm
   xoco

   tx for the tip !!! Little things make life more beautiful !!!