[X4U] Hide the extension: I don't want to but X wants!

[Aaron]

Here's an AppleScript you can save as an application and use as a droplet to turn off the "hide extension" property of the file(s) you drop on it.

on open names
	tell application "Finder"
		repeat with i in names
			set extension hidden of i to false
		end repeat
	end tell
end open

[Tested under Tiger 10.4.10 only!]

I've forgotten most of the little I used to know about AppleScript, so I'd need to do a bit of study to rewrite this to be used from the Scripts menu to act on files selected in the Finder. Maybe somebody else can do that!

 - Aaron

>To: OSX List <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>From: "Germain M." <germain_m at videotron.ca>
>Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:40:51 -0500
>Subject: [X4U] Hide the extension: I don't want to but X wants!
>
>Hello, I'm a writer. I now use Pages with a great joy! But I do have to export into Word format. No problem here. Pages does it fine but the exported file never show the ".doc" extension. I have to Get info and uncheck the "hide extension" in order to have the file with its extension showed. I tried to send the file without its extension but a the other end of the tunnel, people would say the file cannot be opened. Is there a way to make a file show its proper extension without "Get info" each and every time. I still prefer all the files on my computer not to show an extension.
>
>Thanks. Germain