If you Cancel here, nothing untoward will happen. You’ll next see a dialog which warns you that proceeding will replace your original HTML file with that plain text conversion, losing all the additional markup in the original. Open the HTML file, and use the Make Plain Text command in its Format menu. Not only that, but it’s been doing this since Yosemite back in 2014, and persists in TextEdit version 1.14 in Mojave 10.14.4.ĭemonstrating this appalling behaviour is simple with an HTML file which you can afford to lose, because with TextEdit that’s guaranteed data loss. It’s very unusual to catch a Mac app going out of its way to destroy your data, but recently Chris Hamady via drew attention to a glaring example in TextEdit.
