Re: File rename
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:45:47 -0700
Dan wrote:
When attempting to rename a file, i got the following message:
"If you change a file name extension, the file may became unusable"
If i click yes to change the name, the file is not lost but when
wanting to open it a dialog box open requesting that i choose a
program with which to open...which is no problem however, a bit of a
long process which never happened until recently.
Is there a way to correct? Thanks in advance
There is nothing to correct. It's working properly
Windows keeps track of which program is used to open each file extension
(called an "association"). If you cange a a file's extension from .doc to
..txt, Windows will already have an association between .txt and Notepad
(unless you've changed it) and will subsequently open that file in Notepad.
However if you change a file's extension to one that that Windows doesn't
have in its list of associations (for example, .xyz), when you try to open
it, Windows doesn't know what program to open it with, and prompts you to
tell it.
The reason it never happened until recently is that you never before tried
to change to an extension Windows didn't know.
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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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