Re: File extensions shown in file name??
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:05:31 -0700
DieStimme wrote:
Are you a singer?
Something weird has happened and now all of my files have the file
extension at the end of the file names. for example my a video file
will say "filename.avi"
There's nothing weird at all about that. They have always had them. You just
had the default option set to not display them. You apparently changed that
option, and, as far as I'm concerned, that's very good, not bad. The default
of not showing them is a terrible one, in my view, and can easily get you
into trouble because you never really know what you're looking at.
When trying to change the name of the file a
message pops up saying "If you change a file name extension, the file
may become unusable."
That's correct. It's a good warning.
If I erase the ".avi" part of the name the file
is unrecognizable by windows and if I replace the ".avi" to the end
of the file it goes back to normal.
Exactly. It's the file extension that identifies to Windows what kind of a
file it is, and what program should be used to process it. That's why you
should normally never change the extension of a file.
Can anyone help me with this? I'm not sure if it's a fault of
windows or something I installed. If anyone has ever had this
problem before and can help that would be awesome!
I'm not sure what help you're looking for. There's no problem that needs to
be fixed. What you describe is the normal situation. You can set it back to
the default of hiding the extension if you want, but I definitely recommend
against it.
If I've misunderstood, and you have a problem I don't see, please explain
it.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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