Opening TEXTCLIPPING Files

The TEXTCLIPPING file type is primarily associated with Finder.

TEXTCLIPPING	File extension: TEXTCLIPPING
	File type:	text fragment

What is a TEXTCLIPPING file

TEXTCLIPPING files mostly belong to Finder by Apple. TEXTCLIPPING is the filename extension of a document containing a text fragment. The file is generated when a user drags a block or line of highlighted text from a texting program onto the desktop or a different path in Finder. The generation of the TEXTCLIPPING file is a function of the textClipping extension on macOS. The text fragment in a TEXTCLIPPING file can be easily inserted and reused across multiple documents on a computer. A plain text editor on macOS (e.g. TextEdit) can open a TEXTCLIPPING file.

How to open a TEXTCLIPPING file

You need a suitable software like Finder from Apple to open a TEXTCLIPPING file. Without proper software you will receive a Windows message "How do you want to open this file?" or "Windows cannot open this file" or a similar Mac/iPhone/Android alert. If you cannot open your TEXTCLIPPING file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. Then click "Open with" and choose an application. You can also display a TEXTCLIPPING file directly in the browser:. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it.

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TEXTCLIPPING file format details:

To view or edit TEXTCLIPPING files you need to know the file format, because it determines how the data in this file is stored. The initial characters of a file are called signature, sometimes also referred to as "magic bytes". The signature can be used to infer the file format. File extension, signature and file format must match; otherwise errors will occur when the file is opened. So you need a detailed analysis of a file to find out the format and the associated program. Below is our analysis of the TEXTCLIPPING files:

The TEXTCLIPPING file extension is quite widespread and predominantly uses a uniform format. But the following two file formats are common:

• 95% of all TEXTCLIPPING files are Mac Textclip files, which are using the popular plist file format. A property list file is a structured text file that contains user's settings or macOS apps configuration. The contents of these files are partially readable by a human. The average file size is 580 bytes with most files being between 210 bytes and 95 KB in size. The file type is relatively new. The keywords bplist00, XUTI-Data, public.utf8-plain-text_, $com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text_ and public.utf16-plain-textO are typical for these files. These files are attributed to https, clipping, data, folder, invoice, form, ipynb and plan.
• 3% of all TEXTCLIPPING files are based on the popular Mac2OSX file format. The Mac2OSX format is an AppleDouble format and originally used to store additional metadata on Unix systems. They consist of unreadable binary data. The files are on average 8 KB in size and range from 620 bytes to 140 KB. Several words can almost always be found in the files, e.g. Mac OS X, clptMACS, ATTR and apple. These files are often associated with person-related data.

All other TEXTCLIPPING files (2%) have different formats, frequently e.g. textClipping. Often described as report, statement, mega, text, photo or this. You can get all the details of your TEXTCLIPPING file by dragging it onto this page or by clicking the button "Choose your .textclipping file to analyze" above.