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Customizing File Types


You may create your own known file types and add their file signatures for scanning in Known File Types. They will appear in their respective folders on the File Types dialog box.

You can do that either by using the R‑Studio's graphic interface or by direct editing the known file description file specified on the R‑Studio Main settings dialog box.

Creating a Known File Types using a Graphic User's Interface

The easiest way to add your own is to use the R‑Studio's graphic interface.

To create a Known File Type,

1 On the Known File Types settings dialog box, click the Edit User's File Types... button
> The Edit User's File Types dialog box will appear
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Edit User's File Types dialog box

2 Click the Create File Types button and specify File type properties
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Edit User's File Types dialog box

Click to expand/collapse File Types properties

3 Click the Add Signature button, specify the signature parameters, and click the Save button
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Edit User's File Types dialog box

Click to expand/collapse File signature properties

You may specify as many signatures as you need. Moreover, you may specify subgroups within a signature using the Add Subgroup button. The structure of such possible subgroups is described on the Customizing File Types-II help page.

> The newly specified file type will appear on the Edit User's File Types dialog box and the File Types dialog box
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Edit User's File Types dialog box