[X Newbies] Document Extensions

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 12:03 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith 
wrote:

>  his
> images for his website had no extensions. So I added
> them.
>
> Today, he sent me by email said images and they have double
> extensions, e.g. image002.gif.gif

No problem. Under both Win and OS X the user has the option to hide the 
filename extension. Your client had the option on; you thought 
extensions were missing, and added them; when he either turned the 
option off or used some programme that showed the full file name, he 
saw the double extensions.

You can use a batch file renamer (such as NameWiz on Windoze) to remove 
the superfluous characters.

To make sure it doesn't happen again, don't rush into changing file 
names. Check if the system is set up to show them (Tools>Folder Options 
for Win, Finder>Preferences for X). Also, look for visual clues. On 
Win, if you don't see the filename extension, but the item's icon is 
not a generic file icon, then probably the option to hide extensions is 
active.

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