Why my ipynb files are downloaded as txt file in Google Colab

Question

This seems wierd, but my Google Colab was working fine until the last two days the Download .ipynb option is not downloading .ipynb files but rather txt files. I have to rename the file to ipynb and the notebooks are working fine. Anybody have faced such issues with Colab?

Answer 1

The simple solution to this is, while saving to local system,by default colab may give as json or text file. But we can change it to All files and add .ipynb as suffix to the file name

Answer 2

facing same problem while downloading kaggle file as .txt rather than ipynb file i just Re-named file name as ipynb then after got it.