posting log file help, spaces in text deleted

alm721

Hi I'm trying to post some log files but every time I do the spaces are all missing. I don't have word wrap on in notepad and the text copies normally into into a word doc it just takes out all the space when I try and post on here. Any ideas?Many Thanks

busenbust

What you could try is copying into Word again, and saving as an .rtf extension (as opposed to .doc) and then pasting into here

aliEnRIK

Youve mentioned 'word' several times now
'txt' files (Which they are) should only be opened with 'notepad'. Have you got your computer set wrong?
RIGHT CLICK the text file, select PROPERTIES and change OPENS WITH to 'notepad' and try again

kwikbreaks

I'm prety sure I know the cause ...

What you think are spaces are actually tab characters. Whatever is displaying them originally is honouring the tab (a single character) and displaying the text several spaces on from the previous character. A text editor such as notepad only leaves a single space for the tab.

As for a fix - I'm not so sure - silicon sal's suggestion of pasting first into word or wordpad then saving out (I'd suggest as text) may insert spaces to replace those lost but I wouldn't bank on it

busenbust

silicon sal's suggestion of pasting first into word or wordpad then saving out...

^^^^^^^^^^:rolleyes:

alm721

Thank-you all, luckily with the help of people on here, I seem to have now resolved the orginal problem that I needed to post the log files for. I am still going to try as suggested above though as its really bugging me why I cant get it to work. Will let you know if I have any sucess. Thanks for taking th e time to post.

busenbust

^Glad to hear you got it sorted. Have a lovely Christmas :rudolf: