Thread: What the heck am I doing wrong?

I was emailed some great information that I wanted to read at a later date.
I created a folder and labled it accordingly.
Now when I go to open it it comes out something like this----->
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What did I do wrong?
How can I retrieve this information?

I tried to open it with several differant applications.