effortless yet requires an effort

many times in our life we come across problems whose solution are so simple yet it requires lot of effort and time to finally find that simple solution.same was the case with me, for the last 6 days i was trying to figure out the problem behind my inability to convert a file to an oxt file , which ofcourse i was able to change in one of my friends comp(just need to rename the extension). so, i started to do all sorts of searching in net and tried to find if any software is required to do the change. however, most of the sites mentioned the same i.e zip together the .aff file and .dic file and then change the extension to .oxt, which i already did, and didnt serve the purpose.

so now i started to find fault with my computer, i thought maybe it's because of my computer, as only a month and a half ago i formatted my laptop with an pirated xp cd. maybe due to this my lapi might have lost some software that were required to make the change compatible. so i did sort of lose hope that my problem would ever get solved.

the next two days , i didnt try to touch the problem. today, i thought why dont i try it again in one of my friend's comp, and i tried and guess what it worked.i tried to do the same again in my lapi, still not working. then after few minutes i realized that i wasnt actually changing the extension in my lapi, i was just renaming the file i.e from file x to file x.oxt (what a foolish thing to do) as the extensions were hidden(this was the real problem). after little bit of searching, i was able to undo the hidden extensions(go to the folder,then tools, click view then untick the hide extensions of known file) and then the problem was solved. had i would have known the real problem(which i should have been as a computer science student), the problem would have never existed or solved in few minutes. such kind of problem can occur to best of us, but the moral to be learned is to be prepared for such and keep trying to figure out the REAL problem......