I have a file with .key encripted information. I use it for tax procedures from my home country, my tax app won't read it as the Macbook classifies it as keynote. How do I fix this so that my app can read it as an encripted file and not a presentation file (which again, it was never that)?
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MacBook Air
For assistance with your tax app and its (in)ability to open a necessary file, check for app updates, then check the app documentation, then contact the app maintainers.
The app might need to be configured for full disk access, for instance.
What Finder shows for a file can be the default app for opening the file when no app is specifically requested, but that is unrelated to which apps can select and open the file. There are common apps which can open many different formats, for instance. BBEdit, and MacVim are two such examples.
If the key file is text as would be common, BBEdit can likely view its contents, too.
> my tax app won't read it as the Macbook classifies it as keynote
The MacBook (or, more specifically, the Finder) does classify files based on their filename extension, and so a filename ending in .key would be identified as a Keynote presentation file by default.
However, that has no bearing on whether your tax app can open or read the file. Typically you would do this within the app itself (maybe via File -> Open, or File -> Import, or some such). In this case, the Open File dialog shouldn't differentiate between file types and should allow the file to open.
Failing that you may be able to drag the .key file to the application's icon in the Finder, or Ctrl-click on the file and choose Open With... from the popup menu and select the target app.
Much of this does depend on the way the application developer has written their apps to identify files, but the fact that the Finder identifies the file as something different shouldn't make a difference.
Macbook classifying .key file as Keynote presentation instead of encrypted document
